Fisheries, food security, and the poor

Seafood as Local Food: Food Security and Locally Caught Seafood on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula

“…To test this hypothesis, we first used a twotailed Students T-test (table 3), and find a statistically significant increase in the mean food security score for those with access to locally caught seafood, but only at the lowest income bracket. Research shows, however, that household income and food security are likely to share a positive relationship (e.g., Kent, 1997), meaning that households with higher incomes also are likely to be more food secure. Indeed, our data show a weak (r = 0.50) overall correlation in the population between food-security score and income.…”

How is Shrimp Aquaculture Transforming Coastal Livelihoods and Lagoons in Estero Real, Nicaragua?: The Need to Integrate Social–Ecological Research and Ecosystem-Based Approaches

“…Also, the rapid growth of high-value aquaculture products, such as shrimp, often generates social conflict between aquaculture developers and other coastal users over the privatization and degradation of what was often a commons (Stonich 1989(Stonich , 1995Dewalt et al 1996;Stanley 1996Stanley , 1998Stonich et al 1997;Stonich and Bailey 2000;Martinez-Alier 2001;Stonich and Vandergeest 2001;Gowing et al 2006;Horton 2007;King 2010;Nayak and Berkes 2010). Vulnerable coastal users can be particularly impacted from this privatization (Kent 1997;Primavera 1997;Adger 2000;Adger and Luttrell 2000;Armitage 2002;Luttrell 2006;Bergquist 2007;Nayak and Berkes 2011). Indeed, aquaculture often transforms the various management regimes that coexist de facto in estuarine coastal lowlands, and that range from private to common-property or open-access conditions 1 .…”

Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Two Mexican Coastal Fisheries: Implications for Food Security

“…The fisheries sector is important for food security in the developing world, both directly as nourishment and indirectly as a source of income to buy foodstuffs (Allison 2011;Daw et al 2009;Delgado et al 2003;Garcia and Rosenberg 2010;Hall et al 2013;Kent 1997;McClanahan et al 2013). After all, several countries in Asia and Latin America are among the major fishing nations in the world (FAO 2012).…”

“…However, the trend seems to be moving in the wrong direction: fisheries' overcapacity must be curtailed because it is already threatening food security in a number of regions in the developing world (Hall et al 2013;Smith et al 2010;Srinivasan et al 2010). In spite of the relevance of the research conducted since the key contribution made by Kent (1997), few studies have dealt with the links between CC, food security, and fisheries (McClanahan et al 2013). This paper, therefore, has a twofold objective.…”