Building food security and resilience into fisheries governance in the Eastern Caribbean

McConney, Patrick; Cox, Shelly-Ann; Parsram, Kemraj

doi:10.1007/s10113-014-0703-z

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“…Although social network analysis has recently become a popular tool for examining interorganizational relationships for effective regional environmental governance (Baird et al 2016;Ingold and Leifeld 2016;Klein et al 2016;Luthe et al 2012;McConney et al 2015;Schoon et al 2017;Varela-Ortega et al 2016), analyses of the role of interpersonal relationships in adaption to regional environment change at the individual level remain rare (Isaac and Matous 2017).…”

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An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Matouš

Todo

2018

Reg Environ Change

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Agrarian communities in different regions develop diverse coping strategies to address the environmental changes they face. In this work, we test how to stimulate farmers' social learning across diverse regions to promote informed responses to soil degradation. We invited 117 randomly selected members of 16 randomly selected Sumatran communities to three 3-day networking and training events in regions with diverse socio-environmental histories. One event was held in the respondents' remote rural district (Tanggamus), the second was held in a more densely populated region on Sumatra Island (Kalianda), and the third was held in a heavily populated region on Java Island (Garut and Ciamis). Eighteen months later, we surveyed the information-sharing networks and agricultural practices of 370 members of these communities. The participants had become popular sources of agricultural advice, but the strength of this impact depended on the region in which their networking intervention was conducted. The participants in the event on Java had become the most central members of their communities. Although all the participants received the same formal information, those who interacted with the farmers in a region with the longest history of population pressure and land degradation management were more likely to adopt the recommended practices. The participants in this intervention doubled their odds of adopting organic fertilizers compared with those who networked only with peers in their local environment. Environmental memory of coping with change can be shared between regions through social learning, which can be stimulated by simple interventions.

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An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Matouš

Todo

2018

Reg Environ Change

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“…Papers by Lowitt et al (2015a), McConney et al (2014) and Shah and Dulal (2015) lend further insight into the factors shaping the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers, small-scale fish harvesters and households, respectively, to respond to food systems' change. Lowitt et al (2015) examine the factors influencing the innovation potential of smallholder farmers in four Caribbean SIDS.…”

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“…Complementing the agriculture-focused papers in this collection, McConney et al (2014) present the results of case study research conducted in eight Caribbean fisheries. They identify a lack of participation in management decisions by resource users that contributes to conflict in the industry and weakens its capacity to adapt to sustainability challenges.…”

Section: Environmental Change and Food Security In Sidsmentioning

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“…In many SIDS, hierarchical governance structures developed during earlier colonial periods are becoming increasingly ill-suited to coordinating responses to food insecurity. Papers by Saint Ville et al (2015) and McConney et al (2014) argue that the high level of centralized power held by state institutions is constraining the capacity for agricultural system innovation and collective action at local levels. This likely contributes to a situation in which communities feel disempowered as they look to the state for leadership, while working connections among citizens and between citizens and institutions remains weak.…”

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“…For example, McConney et al (2014) argue for greater participation of fisherfolk, through well-organized social networks in fisheries management to enhance the capacity of these structures to respond to sustainability challenges. Shah and Dulal urge that community planners, policy makers and residents need to work together to develop sustainable national food systems that are less vulnerable to extreme weather events.…”

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Environmental change and food security: the special case of small island developing states

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Small island developing states (SIDS) are recognized as a special case for sustainable development due to the unique set of challenges and vulnerabilities they face. While SIDS are a diverse group of nations, most share characteristics of small size, limited land availability, insularity, susceptibility to natural disasters and deep integration into global markets that make them particularly vulnerable to global environmental and economic change processes. Although there has been considerable research into the impacts of global change processes on small island vulnerability, much less attention has been paid to their resilience, particularly at the intersection of environmental and economic change and the consequences for food security. This paper presents an overview of the socialecological vulnerabilities that drive food and nutrition insecurity in different SIDS contexts and considers how policies and governance arrangements might better support more resilient and sustainable small island food systems drawing from the collection of papers in this Special Issue.

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Climate Change and Fisheries in the Caribbean

Pérez‐Ramírez

2017

Climate Change Impacts on Fisheries and Aquaculture

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Building food security and resilience into fisheries governance in the Eastern Caribbean

Cited by 19 publications

References 17 publications

An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Environmental change and food security: the special case of small island developing states

Climate Change and Fisheries in the Caribbean

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