ABSTRACT
The Pahang Malay live along the coast and major rivers of the state of Pahang in West Malaysia. While a few Pahang Malay live in urban settings such as Temerloh or Kuantan, more than nine out of ten live in rural villages. Pahang agriculture indeed appears to be inherently adapted to withstand high frequencies of adverse conditions. One characteristic of the indigenous agricultural system of the Pahang Malay, is that over long periods of time it has consistently met the basic production needs of the local population. The lack of dependence on a single crop together with maintaining complex resource exchange networks and use of a broad range of microenvironments affords the Pahang Malay the capability for rapid adjustment to relatively small ecological and economic variations, and provides an inherent capacity to withstand great social and economic upheavals.
