Linking seagrass ecosystem services to food security: The example of southwestern Madagascar’s small-scale fisheries

The seagrass ecosystem has the same role as other ecosystem in improving coastal community fishery business. The purpose of this study is to assess the provision of seagrass ecosystem services to small fishing activities in the study sites. The research was conducted in Malang Village Meeting and Berakit from September to November 2014. Spatial distribution of fish species resources and small fishing catchment areas at study sites were located near the coast in each study village. The activity of catching small fishermen by utilizing the existence of seagrass ecosystem is reflected from the resources of fish species that are obtained and marketed to meet their needs. Fish community structure associated with seagrass from small fisherman catch in Malang Village Meeting based on index value of diversity (H ') and uniformity (E) of 2.58 and 0.93 higher than that of Desa Berakit that is 1.77 and 0.65. This value indicates that the keaganagaman in Malang Village is Medium and the community is in stable condition. While in the village of Berakit shows low diversity and community in unstable conditions. While the value of dominance index (C) of each village is low with the value of each village of 0.09 and 0.31. Keywords: seagrass ecosystem services, small-scale fisheries, and Eastern Coastal of Bintan

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Small-scale Fisheries, Livelihoods, and Food Security of Riverine People

Fish and Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-49146-8_3 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 23-39

Author(s):

Gustavo Hallwass ◽

Luís Henrique Tomazoni da Silva ◽

Paula Nagl ◽

Mariana Clauzet ◽

Alpina Begossi

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Small Scale ◽

Small Scale Fisheries

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The Contribution of Small-Scale Fisheries to Food Security and Family Income in Chile, Colombia, and Peru

Viability and Sustainability of Small-Scale Fisheries in Latin America and The Caribbean - MARE Publication Series ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-76078-0_14 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 329-352 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Javier Villanueva García Benítez ◽

Alejandro Flores-Nava

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Family Income ◽

Small Scale ◽

Small Scale Fisheries

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SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF SEAGRASS AND SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES CONNECTIVITY IN MALANG RAPAT AND BERAKIT VILLAGES, BINTAN DISTRICT, RIAU ISLANDS

Jurnal Ilmu dan Teknologi Kelautan Tropis ◽

10.29244/jitkt.v7i2.10992 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Muhammad Nur Arkham ◽

Luky Adrianto ◽

Yusli Wardiatno

Keyword(s):

Social Factors ◽

Ecological System ◽

Easy Access ◽

Small Scale ◽

Small Scale Fisheries ◽

Fish Resources ◽

Ecosystem Connectivity ◽

Social Ecological ◽

Seagrass Ecosystem ◽

The Social

Seagrass ecosystem has important roles in ecological and social factors to support fisherman income. The purpose of this research was to map the social-ecological system connectivity of seagrass with small-scale fisheries with networks perspective, to identify social-ecological connectivity of seagrass with fisheries resource availability approaches in small-scale fisheries, and to estimate the benefits of fish resources relation to seagrass ecosystem in Malang Rapat and Berakit vilages. Social-ecological system connectivity of seagrass was proven by the spatial distribution of fishing areas, networks map markets, and dynamics of small-scale fisheries catches in the study site. Social-ecocoligal connectivity of seagrass was also proven by fish catches dominated by Siganidae, Scaridae, Lethrinidae, and Lutjanidae families. The fishermen income was supported by seagrass ecosystem connectivity which contributed revenue from fish catches totally Rp 202,124,00/day in Malang Rapat village and Rp. 193,151,00/day in Berakit village. Other benefit of seagrass ecosystem located nearby the beach was that the fishermen can have an easy access or less fuel for fishing operation.Keywords: seagrass ecosystem, network map, connectivity, small-scale fisheries, social-ecological system, Riau islands

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Small-scale fisheries development in Africa: Lessons learned and best practices for enhancing food security and livelihoods

Marine Policy ◽

10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104925 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 136 ◽

pp. 104925

Author(s):

Antaya March ◽

Pierre Failler

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Best Practices ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Small Scale ◽

Small Scale Fisheries

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Small is beautiful – or is it? The challenges of integrating human rights principles into sector policies favourable to artisanal fisheries and mining

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-3936 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Cornelia E. Nauen

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Food Security ◽

Value Added ◽

Value Chains ◽

Small Scale ◽

Sustainable Living ◽

Social Sciences And Humanities ◽

Agenda 2030 ◽

Small Scale Fisheries ◽

Artisanal Miners

Raising awareness about opportunities for transdisciplinary work and ethical grounding to meet the global challenges to the professions is paramount. Issues of justice and living within the planetary boundaries become also more prominent in the life, social sciences and humanities questioning disciplinary silos. Institutionalising alternatives that create and sustain broader knowledge ecologies for sustainable living is yet to be systematically enabled through new learning and educational pathways. We argue, that there are considerable mutual learning opportunities between artisanal, small-scale mining and small-scale fisheries. The global employment in the artisanal gold mining sector is estimated at some 10 to 15 million people, of whom 4.5 million are women and 0.6 million children. Some 40 million people are estimated along value chains in the artisanal fishing of whom 50% are estimated to be women. In both sectors informality is high, production very incompletely recorded and relations with governments and local administrations tend to be difficult as perceptions about the negative sides of the artisanal operations are pervasive in a policy context modelled on industrial exploitation and value chains. Where attempts have been made to quantify production and role in employment, food security or even in contribution to GDP and international trade, the numbers almost always justify policy change in favour of the small-scale sectors. In the face of disruptive technologies liable to make many industrial jobs redundant, opportunities for a new brand of artisanal operators in higher value added segments would be possible with suitable investment in people and institutions. This could go well beyond the poverty discourse into which artisanal miners and fishers are often confined, a notion vigorously rejected by many fishers e.g. in West Africa. The 2018 &#8220;Mosi-oa-Tunya Declaration on Artisanal and Small-scale Mining, Quarrying and Development&#8221; and the &#8220;Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication&#8221; with its grounding in human rights and adopted in 2014 by the FAO Committee of Fisheries are starting points for demarginalising artisanal operators. The small-scale fisheries academy (SSF academy) in Senegal offer an example of how this could be enabled. Some 600,000 people are estimated to work along artisanal value chains in the country. The SSF academy explores the possibilities to use bottom-up training of trainer approaches to empower individuals (men and women) and communities to improve their livelihoods. Inclusive, participatory methods of active learning based on &#8220;Gender Actions Learninig System&#8221; (GALS) are being tested to enable experiencing positive local change in relation to global policy goals like the SSF Guidelines in the context of Agenda 2030. The SSF academy offers a safe space where diverse actors can meet, confront their different knowledges and experiences and develop social and technological innovations. Wider sharing builds capabilities and practice of advocacy and collective action thus also paving the way for forms of more participatory governance. Demonstrating feasibility may entice policy reform that would benefit from long-term societal views to counter wide-spread short-termism, for fishers and miners.

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Coastal Ecosystem Services, Social Equity, and Blue Growth: A Case Study from South-Eastern Bangladesh

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering ◽

10.3390/jmse8100815 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (10) ◽

pp. 815

Author(s):

Mohammad Mahmudul Islam ◽

Shuvo Pal ◽

Mohammad Mosarof Hossain ◽

Mohammad Mojibul Hoque Mozumder ◽

Petra Schneider

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Social Equity ◽

Governance Structure ◽

Coastal Ecosystem ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Eastern Coast ◽

Small Scale ◽

Small Scale Fisheries ◽

South Eastern ◽

Blue Growth

By employing empirical and secondary data (qualitative and quantitative), this study demonstrates how social equity (with its three dimensions) can meaningfully address the conservation of the coastal social–ecological system (SES), without losing diverse ecosystem services (ES) in south-east coastal Bangladesh. Based on this proposition, this study assesses the available ES and identifies the drivers responsible for ES changes, arguing for the application of social equity for resource conservation. The findings show that communities along Bangladesh’s south-eastern coast use several ES for food, medicine, income, livelihoods, and cultural heritage. However, this valuable ecosystem is currently experiencing numerous threats and stressors of anthropogenic and natural origin. In particular, large-scale development activities, driven by the blue growth agenda, and neoliberalism policy, pose a risk to the local communities by degrading coastal ecosystem services. Escaping this situation for coastal natural resource-dependent communities in Bangladesh will require a transformation in the governance structure. Implementing the Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) Guidelines that call for initiating policy change to deliver social justice to small-scale fisheries would help to address coastal ecosystem service conservation in Bangladesh.

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Improving our knowledge on small-scale fisheries: data needs and methodologies

10.31230/osf.io/vnwc2 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Food Security ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Small Scale ◽

Essential Information ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Partnership Development ◽

Small Scale Fisheries ◽

Food Security And Nutrition

In 2012, the World Bank, FAO and WorldFish Center published a review of the economic importance of fisheries entitled Hidden Harvest: The Global Contribution of Capture Fisheries. While providing essential information and estimates that are still valid, the analyses would benefit from being refined and updated, and also by including additional dimensions of the contribution of small-scale fisheries to food security and nutrition, poverty reduction, and the three dimensions of sustainable development more broadly. The intention would be to draw the attention of policy- and decision-makers to the sector’s importance and to promote the required engagement and support to realize the potential of sustainable small-scale fisheries. Such an analysis would also be an important contribution towards monitoring the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines), and of the progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).As a first step towards a new Hidden Harvest study, the “Workshop on improving our knowledge on small-scale fisheries: data needs and methodologies” was held at FAO in Rome, Italy on 27–29 June 2017. This expert workshop discussed:• the scope and main contents of the new study, including type of data (indicators) to be collected and subsector coverage; and• the methodologies for data collection and analyses, including key partners and information sources.About 40 external experts, as well as FAO staff from the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department and other relevant FAO departments, participated in the workshop. The workshop agreed on the need for a comprehensive new study to illuminate the hidden contributions of small-scale fisheries to the three dimensions of sustainable development, as well as identifying the key threats to these contributions. The study would be a collaborative effort, and the next steps envisaged include the development of a study design based on the workshop outcomes, to be completed by the end of 2017; continuation of ongoing communications and partnership development; and launch of the research in early 2018, with a target for completion in the first half of 2019.

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SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF SEAGRASS AND SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES CONNECTIVITY IN MALANG RAPAT AND BERAKIT VILLAGES, BINTAN DISTRICT, RIAU ISLANDS

Jurnal Ilmu dan Teknologi Kelautan Tropis ◽

10.28930/jitkt.v7i2.10992 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Muhammad Nur Arkham ◽

Luky Adrianto ◽

Yusli Wardiatno

Keyword(s):

Social Factors ◽

Ecological System ◽

Easy Access ◽

Small Scale ◽

Small Scale Fisheries ◽

Fish Resources ◽

Ecosystem Connectivity ◽

Social Ecological ◽

Seagrass Ecosystem ◽

The Social

Seagrass ecosystem has important roles in ecological and social factors to support fisherman income. The purpose of this research was to map the social-ecological system connectivity of seagrass with small-scale fisheries with networks perspective, to identify social-ecological connectivity of seagrass with fisheries resource availability approaches in small-scale fisheries, and to estimate the benefits of fish resources relation to seagrass ecosystem in Malang Rapat and Berakit vilages. Social-ecological system connectivity of seagrass was proven by the spatial distribution of fishing areas, networks map markets, and dynamics of small-scale fisheries catches in the study site. Social-ecocoligal connectivity of seagrass was also proven by fish catches dominated by Siganidae, Scaridae, Lethrinidae, and Lutjanidae families. The fishermen income was supported by seagrass ecosystem connectivity which contributed revenue from fish catches totally Rp 202,124,00/day in Malang Rapat village and Rp. 193,151,00/day in Berakit village. Other benefit of seagrass ecosystem located nearby the beach was that the fishermen can have an easy access or less fuel for fishing operation.Keywords: seagrass ecosystem, network map, connectivity, small-scale fisheries, social-ecological system, Riau islands

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STUDI KETERKAITAN EKOSISTEM LAMUN DAN PERIKANAN SKALA KECIL (Studi Kasus: Desa Malang Rapat dan Berakit, Kabupaten Bintan, Kepulauan Riau)

Jurnal Sosial Ekonomi Kelautan dan Perikanan ◽

10.15578/jsekp.10.2.2015.137-148 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 137

Author(s):

Muhammad Nur Arkham ◽

Luky Adrianto ◽

Yusli Wardiatno

Keyword(s):

Secondary Data ◽

Study Data ◽

Fishing Ground ◽

Small Scale ◽

Small Scale Fisheries ◽

Ecological Benefit ◽

Social Ecological ◽

Seagrass Ecosystem ◽

Study Results ◽

Study Sites

Ekosistem lamun merupakan salah satu bagian penting sebagai bagian penyusun kesatuan ekosistem pesisir bersama dengan mangrove dan terumbu karang. Secara spesifik, keterkaitan masyarakat sebagai pemanfaat sumberdaya pada ekosistem lamun belum banyak diungkapkan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengkaji keterkaitan sistem sosial-ekologi lamun berdasarkan hasil tangkapan sumberdaya ikan di lokasi penelitian dan mengestimasi besaran manfaat sumberdaya ikan kaitannya dengan jasa ekosistem lamun di lokasi penelitian. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan pendekatan kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Data yang dibutuhkan adalah data primer dan sekunder. Data primer didapat dari wawancara dengan instrumen kuisioner dan pencatatan hasil tangkapan dan penjualan di pedagang pengepul. Analisis data penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis diskriptif kualitatif dan net fishing revenue (NFR) yang diperoleh nelayan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat keterkaitan sosial-ekologi dengan keberadaan ekosistem lamun yang dijadikan sebagai tempat penangkapan bagi perikanan skala kecil yang bisa berkontribusi dalam ketahanan pangan dan sebagai mata pencaharian nelayan di desa tersebut. Manfaat yang didapat perikanan skala kecil dari keberadaan ekosistem lamun yaitu kemudahan akses bagi nelayan skala kecil dalam mencari ikan karena lokasinya yang dekat dengan pantai. Secara umum besaran manfaat dari fungsi ekosistem lamun sebagai jasa penyedia terlihat dari pendapatan per hari nelayan skala kecil diatas UMK Kabupaten Bintan yaitu Rp. 93,000,00. Dengan adanya keterkaitan sosial-ekologi lamun tersebut dapat dilakukan pertimbangan pengelolaan pesisir terpadu dengan pendekatan sosial-ekologi lamun di lokasi penelitian. (The Study of Seagrass Ecosystem and Small-Scale Fisheries Linkages (Case Studie: Malang Rapat and Berakit village, Bintan Regency,Riau Islands))Seagrass ecosystem is one of an important coastal ecosystem’s component along with mangroves and coral reefs. However, the linkage between fishers and seagrass ecosystem, had not been fully explored. The objectives of this research were analyze seagrass social-ecological system linkages based on fish caught and estimating the fisheries resource benefits regarding its ecosystem services at the study sites. Qualitative and quantitative approach based on primary and secondary data were used in this study. Data were collected by interviewed using questionaire and also production and sales records from sellers. Descriptive-qualitative and net fishing revenue (NFR) were used to analyze in this study. Results showed that there was a social and ecological linkage between seagrass and small scale fishers that could contribute to food security and livelihood at those sites. Accessibility of fishing ground on shores was one of the benefit for small scale fisheries. While ecological benefit of seagrass as a provisioning service was indicated by the daily small scale fishers’ revenue that was higher than The Minimum District Wage of Bintan District value which was IDR 93,000. Based on those social-ecological linkages, it is possible to use integrated coastal management with seagrass social-ecological approach in those sites.

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