Impact of increasing market access on a tropical small-scale fishery

Stevens, Kara; Irwin, Brian; Kramer, Daniel; Urquhart, Gerald R.

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2014.05.007

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“…The numbers on each die were chosen so that the sum of the two dice represented the expected per-net weight of a catch of snook, which comprised the majority of fishing income for most fishers. The values on the dice approximated the probability distribution of fish caught per net, derived from fishing surveys shared by other researchers (Stevens et al 2014).…”

Section: Game Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Participatory modelling and development practice: artisanal fishers in Nicaragua

Casillas¹,

Ray

2018

Development in Practice

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Development plans with insufficient knowledge about local realities, and that do not share technical or planning details with the target communities, bedevil development practice. This study used a form of participatory modelling in three fishing communities in Nicaragua to enable fishers to explore their economy and the potential impacts of fishery-based development projects. Co-designing a model of the fishing economy in the form of a board game created a forum in which facilitators and participants could arrive at a shared understanding of local fishing practices and the costs and benefits of strategies for addressing the fishers' priorities.

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Section: Game Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, the ongoing decline of fish productivity was a critical issue (see Stevens et al 2014). Fishers claimed that conditions in the lagoon would become worse due to overfishing unless some form of regulation was implemented.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Participatory modelling and development practice: artisanal fishers in Nicaragua

Casillas¹,

Ray

2018

Development in Practice

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“…While the people of the Coast have been integrated into global political economic systems throughout the post-Contact period (c. 1620) (Helms 1969, 1971, Nietschmann 1973, the Pearl Lagoon Basin is currently experiencing an era of increased connectedness following the development of the region's first 'highway' 6 and the possible construction of a trans-isthmus shipping canal (Anderson 2015). These development activities have profound impacts upon regional ecological and social systems (Stevens et al 2014). Additionally, a number of governmental and non-governmental agricultural development programs are currently operating in the Basin, which may influence local and regional agrobiodiversity.…”

Section: The Study Area: the Pearl Lagoon Basinmentioning

confidence: 99%

The political ecology of 'ethnic' agricultural biodiversity maintenance in Atlantic Nicaragua

Williams

2016

Journal of Political Ecology

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Correlations between farmer ethnic identity and the agrobiodiversity they maintain have been identified globally. This has been maintained even as small-scale farmers are increasingly connected to extra-local political economic systems, which are cited as the driver of global agrobiodiversity erosion. Yet, how ethnicity influences the maintenance of biodiverse farming systems is poorly understood. Employing a political ecology framework that integrated qualitative, demographic, and agroecological methods in Caribbean Nicaragua's Pearl Lagoon Basin, this research revealed patterns indicating that farmers who identify with the area's indigenous (Miskito) and afro-descendant (Creole and Garífuna) 'minority' groups tend to maintain more diverse farms than nearby farmers who identify as mestizo, particularly those who are recent migrants to the region. In contrast to previous studies, however, the most connected farmers in the Basin tend to have the highest levels of agrobiodiversity within their farming systems. Qualitative and regression analyses reveal that ethnic patterns in the maintenance of agrobiodiversity are explained in part by the historical farming practices that characterize land use in the Basin and the agroecological knowledge that farmers develop over a lifetime farming in this socio-ecological context. Further, by acknowledging the plastic nature of ethnic identity, this research highlights the importance of ethnic-based land rights in the Nicaragua's South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region as a critical factor that directly and indirectly influences the ethnic identities of farmers in the Pearl Lagoon Basin and their abilities to participate in agricultural development projects whose extension activities promote agrobiodiversity conservation.Key Words: Agrobiodiversity, ethnicity, land use and land use change, development, Nicaragua, Pearl Lagoon Basin

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“…Many studies have reported the effects of globalization and distant drivers on socioeconomic and environmental changes from local to global scales (e.g., Young et al 2006, O'Brien et al 2009, Lambin and Meyfroidt 2011, Meyfroidt et al 2013, Stevens et al 2014). For instance, Adger et al (2009) argued that the vulnerability of one region may be aggravated by adaptation to economic change and vulnerability in other regions, citing vulnerability introduced by the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and vulnerability of coffee farmers to markets at distant localities.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Multiple telecouplings and their complex interrelationships

Liu¹,

Hull²,

Luo³

et al. 2015

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ABSTRACT. Increasingly, the world is becoming socioeconomically and environmentally connected, but many studies have focused on human-environment interactions within a particular area. Although some studies have considered the impacts of external factors, there is little research on multiple reciprocal socioeconomic and environmental interactions between a focal area and other areas. Here we address this important knowledge gap by applying the new integrated framework of telecouplings (socioeconomic and environmental interactions between two or more areas over distances). Results show that even a protected area -i.e., the Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas in southwest China -has multiple telecoupling processes with the rest of the world; these include panda loans, tourism, information dissemination, conservation subsidies, and trade of agricultural and industrial products. The telecoupling processes exhibit nonlinear patterns, they change over time, and they have varying socioeconomic and environmental effects across the world. We also find complex relationships among different telecouplings -e.g., amplification, offsetting, spatial overlaps -which cannot be detected by traditional separate studies. Such an integrated study leads to a more comprehensive understanding of distant human-environment interactions and has significant implications for global sustainability and human well-being.

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Impact of increasing market access on a tropical small-scale fishery

Cited by 25 publications

References 35 publications

Participatory modelling and development practice: artisanal fishers in Nicaragua

Participatory modelling and development practice: artisanal fishers in Nicaragua

The political ecology of 'ethnic' agricultural biodiversity maintenance in Atlantic Nicaragua

Multiple telecouplings and their complex interrelationships

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