Small-scale fisheries, food systems & food sovereignty
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Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Mineral Hall C, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Type: Paper,
Theme: Toward More Just Geographies
Curated Track:
Sponsor Group(s):
Coastal and Marine Specialty Group, Geographies of Food and Agriculture Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Barbara Quimby Hawai'i Pacific University
Chair(s):
Barbara Quimby Hawai'i Pacific University
Description:
Small-scale fisheries have recently gained greater attention for their vital contributions to nutrition, livelihoods, and food security around the world. At the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, a coalition was formed to mobilize support and raise awareness of the role “blue” foods play in global and local food systems. With this attention comes a need for more research into the social dimensions of small-scale fisheries management, and how the relationships between fishing communities and their marine or freshwater environment inform issues of coastal resilience, gender and social equity, and sustainable food systems.
Food sovereignty has been proposed as one approach to incorporate environmental justice practices into fisheries management. Fishing communities were explicitly included in the first calls of the food sovereignty movement by La Via Campesina; still, “blue” foods- capture fisheries, coastal gleaning, and mariculture-have been largely absent from efforts at centering local food producers’ rights and power. Indigenous scholars have also challenged conceptualizations of marine and aquatic life as "resources" rather than relations.
This session will explore how we can create more just and equitable approaches and practices for producing blue foods.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Barbara Quimby, Arizona State University |
Blue food sovereignty and small-scale fisheries comanagement in Samoa |
Samantha Farquhar |
Using Agent-based models to understand relationship between industrial shrimp trawling and small-scale fishers- implications for food sovereignty and food security |
Melva Trevino, University of Rhode Island |
Reframing Coastal Access as a Food Sovereignty Issue: Insights from the Ocean State |
Fatou Jobe |
Sustainable Development or Maldevelopment? Fishmeal Factories and the Dispossession of Women in The Gambia |
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Small-scale fisheries, food systems & food sovereignty
Description
Type: Paper,
Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Mineral Hall C, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Contact the Primary Organizer
Barbara Quimby Hawai'i Pacific University
bquimby@hpu.edu
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