Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State

Rudiak-Gould, Peter

doi:10.4324/9780203427422

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“…Production of many long-term staples, such as copra and bananas, has declined; several are no longer traded since prices in remote places are too low to justify marketing. Copra has gone from most Micronesian atolls and elsewhere, victims of the 1990s copra price crisis, scarcely remaining even where there are no other local income earning opportunities (Pollock 1996;Chambers and Chambers 2001;Rudiak-Gould 2009). A corollary has been attempts at specialisation in a few niche export crops, but even on larger islands these have rarely been successful.…”

Section: Agricultural Declinementioning

confidence: 97%

“…Imported foods range from corned beef, turkey tails and meat flaps to rice, sugar, instant noodles, Food security in the island Pacific biscuits and soft drinks (e.g. Evans et al 2001;Dixon and Jamieson 2005;Cassels 2006;Oles 2007b;Foster 2008;Gewertz and Errington 2010;Errington et al 2013;Rudiak-Gould 2009;Thow et al 2010;Seiden et al 2012). Rice and flour have become food staples even in quite remote communities, sometimes eaten without accompaniments.…”

Section: Nutrition and Healthmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Particularly demanding pit cultivation of taro, the traditional staple of most atolls has universally declined or disappeared, even when not threatened by hazards, as a labour intensive activity of low status (e.g. Marshall 2004a;Caillon and Degeorges 2007;Oles 2007b;Rudiak-Gould (2009). Even on atolls, where agricultural diversity was minimal, labour intensive activities were abandoned quite early in the twentieth century; on Arno (RMI), only one tenth of the taro pits were planted by 1950, and abandonment was apparent on other Marshallese atolls like Namu, Lae and Mili by the 1960s (Pollock 1992;Connell 1994), and by the 1980s in the more remote atolls of Bougainville (Feinberg 1986;Pollock 1992).…”

Section: Agricultural Declinementioning

confidence: 99%

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Food security in the island Pacific: Is Micronesia as far away as ever?

Connell

2014

Reg Environ Change

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Food security in the Pacific, especially in Micronesia, has worsened in the past half century. Agriculture, fishing and local food production have declined, except in the most remote islands, especially in peri-urban environments. Diets have incorporated more processed and imported foods, because of prestige, accessibility, cost and convenience, at financial, social, environmental and nutritional cost to countries and households. Non-communicable diseases have grown rapidly throughout Micronesia. Household expenditure is dominated by imported foods, especially rice. Food security requires more adequate market access, but national resource bases are limited, and government intervention and policy formation are both weak and exhibit urban bias in unusually fragmented states. Climate change is likely to further hamper local food production. Household has negotiated multiple livelihoods across international boundaries with national and household incomes boosted by remittances, which may become a distinctive key to achieving improved health and nutritional status.

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Section: Agricultural Declinementioning

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Section: Nutrition and Healthmentioning

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Section: Agricultural Declinementioning

confidence: 99%

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Food security in the island Pacific: Is Micronesia as far away as ever?

Connell

2014

Reg Environ Change

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“…Culture and identity are discussed by many islanders, especially in low-lying communities, in the context of climate change (e.g., Rudiak-Gould, 2013;Connell, 2013;Shen and Binns, 2012). Some say that they will never move, irrespective of the situation on their island.…”

Section: Culture Tradition and Faithmentioning

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Viewpoint paper. Islander mobilities: any change from climate change?

Kelman¹,

Stojanov²,

Khan³

et al. 2015

IJGW

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Climate change is often stated as being likely to cause the forced movement of millions of people, especially from low-lying island communities. Without denying such potential, these statements are not always placed in wider and deeper understandings of mobility and non-mobility. Instead, the mobilities literature demonstrates the complexity of the topic and the extensive factors influencing choices and lack of choices, with poverty being a significant factor for the latter. To contribute towards understanding these complexities, this conceptual paper applies wider mobilities literature to the specific case of low-lying island communities potentially threatened by climate change, demonstrating the relevance of the wider mobilities literature to the discussions of islander mobilities under climate change. The key message is that different forms of mobility and non-mobility together could be used by islanders to address climate change, as long as resources are made available for the islanders to enact their own choices. Overall, without denying the major challenges which climate change brings to islanders, climate change nonetheless brings little substantive which is new to discussions of islander mobilities. Instead, islander mobilities under climate change will be understood best by placing climate change in context as one driver amongst many of mobility and non-mobility.

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“…While land and place are a significant part of Pacific islander identity and culture (Trask 1991;Curry, Koczberskia, and Connell 2012), the ambassadors recognize the need to move yet nonetheless emphasize topophilia for resettlement. Similarly, Rudiak-Gould's (2013) research investigates Marshallese perceptions of climate change and its impacts. He shows significant acceptance amongst the Marshallese of the challenges brought by climate change, yet they understand responses to be domestic and not including migration-ultimately because they wish to stay on their islands because they are home.…”

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Here and now: perceptions of Indian Ocean islanders on the climate change and migration nexus

Kelman

Upadhyay

Simonelli

et al. 2017

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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Empirical studies exploring the links between climate change and migration are increasing.Often, perceptions are not fully explored from the people most affected by the climate change and migration nexus. This article contributes to filling this gap by eliciting and analyzing perceptions regarding climate change and migration from an understudied population labelled as being amongst those most immediately and directly affected by climate change: IndianOcean islanders. Open-ended, semi-structured interviews were conducted in two case study communities in Maldives (Kaafu Guraidhoo with 17 interviews and Raa Dhuvafaaru with 18 interviews) and two case study communities in Lakshadweep, India (Kavaratti with 35 interviews and Minicoy with 26 interviews). The results present the interviewees' perceptions of climatic variability and change that they experience; how they perceive the causes of these changes; and links to migration decisions. The interviews demonstrate that perceptions of climate change, of migration, and of the links or lack thereof between the two are centred on the interviewees' own experiences, their own locations, and the immediate timeframe.External information and direction has limited influence. Their perceptions are framed as being the 'here and now' through topophilia (here) and tempophilia (now). The islanders' views do not avoid, but rather encompass, long-term livelihoods and the future. Such a future might be in another location, but the anchor is expressing future hopes and aspirations through the here and now. It is not linked to the wide-scale, long-term issue of climate change.

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Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State

Cited by 85 publications

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Food security in the island Pacific: Is Micronesia as far away as ever?

Food security in the island Pacific: Is Micronesia as far away as ever?

Viewpoint paper. Islander mobilities: any change from climate change?

Here and now: perceptions of Indian Ocean islanders on the climate change and migration nexus

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