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The state of Louisiana’s freshwater commercial fishery: a study of fishermen’s attitudes towards fishing and their future 路易斯安那州淡水商业渔业状况:渔民对捕鱼及其未来的态度研究
IF 3.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1007/s40152-024-00384-y
Lauren Bonatakis, Tiffany Pasco, Julie A. Lively

As an important contributor to Louisiana’s economy, the commercial freshwater fisheries have been the subject of growing attention in recent years by resource managers as the industry appears to be on the brink of collapse. Fewer participants are entering the field, fish buyers and processors are closing, and market prices remain stagnant. To better understand this industry, we conducted a study to characterize the commercial freshwater fisheries in Louisiana including the fishermen, the fishing operations, the effort across the state, local knowledge on management issue and barriers and opportunities for the future of the industry. We completed structured interviews at fish houses across Louisiana. The average full-time fisherman was 56 years old with about 34 years of commercial fishing experience, and catfish (Ictaluridae spp.) and buffalo (Ictobius spp.) appear to be the most sought-after finfish; however, this slightly differs by region. Overall, this study provides in-depth insight into the trends, problems, and successes of Louisiana’s freshwater commercial fisheries. This information will allow managers and other groups like cooperative extension to identify and design opportunities for the industry and utilize their information in management across the state.

作为路易斯安那州经济的重要贡献者,商业淡水渔业近年来日益受到资源管理者的关注,因为该行业似乎正处于崩溃的边缘。进入该领域的参与者越来越少,鱼类收购商和加工商纷纷倒闭,市场价格仍然停滞不前。为了更好地了解这一行业,我们开展了一项研究,以了解路易斯安那州商业淡水渔业的特点,包括渔民、捕鱼作业、全州的努力程度、当地对管理问题的了解以及该行业未来的障碍和机遇。我们在路易斯安那州各地的鱼舍完成了结构化访谈。全职渔民的平均年龄为 56 岁,约有 34 年的商业捕鱼经验,鲶鱼(Ictaluridae 鱼属)和水牛(Ictobius 鱼属)似乎是最受欢迎的有鳍鱼类;但不同地区的情况略有不同。总之,这项研究深入揭示了路易斯安那州淡水商业渔业的趋势、问题和成功之处。这些信息将使管理者和其他团体(如合作推广团体)能够识别和设计该行业的机遇,并在全州的管理中利用这些信息。
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Understanding group capabilities for small-scale tuna fishery certification in Indonesia 了解印度尼西亚小型金枪鱼渔业认证的团体能力
IF 3.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1007/s40152-024-00383-z
Puspi Eko Wiranthi, Hilde M. Toonen, Peter Oosterveer

Fair Trade USA Capture Fisheries Standard (CFS) requires small-scale fishers to be organized in groups before getting certified against its voluntary sustainability standard. This raises questions about what groups (can) do to enable individual fishers to participate in and benefit from certification. This study uses a capabilities framework to understand this dynamic. We use a case study of handline tuna fishery in Maluku, Indonesia. Three clusters of groups are included: the groups in Buru Island that have been certified by Fair Trade USA Capture Fisheries Standard and Marine Stewardship Council, the groups in Seram Island that have been certified by Fair Trade USA, and the groups in Buru and Seram Islands that have been excluded from Fair Trade USA certification. The results show how group capabilities play an essential role in group and individual fisher certification. We conclude that there is a need to support group certification as a mechanism to govern sustainability in small-scale fisheries. To achieve group certification policy interventions beyond the certification stakeholders are needed to provide conditions supportive for group capabilities.

美国公平贸易捕捞渔业标准(CFS)要求小规模渔民在根据其自愿可持续性标准获得认证前必须组织起来。这就提出了一个问题,即团体(能)做什么来帮助个体渔民参与认证并从中受益。本研究采用能力框架来了解这一动态。我们以印度尼西亚马鲁古的金枪鱼手钓渔业为例进行研究。研究对象包括三个群体:已通过美国公平贸易捕捞渔业标准和海洋管理委员会认证的布鲁岛群体、已通过美国公平贸易认证的塞拉姆岛群体,以及被排除在美国公平贸易认证之外的布鲁岛和塞拉姆岛群体。研究结果表明,群体能力在群体和个体渔民认证中发挥着至关重要的作用。我们的结论是,有必要支持团体认证,将其作为管理小型渔业可持续性的机制。为了实现团体认证,需要在认证利益相关者之外进行政策干预,为团体能力提供支持条件。
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Sustainability is in the details: empowering seafood consumers with informative labels 可持续性体现在细节中:用信息丰富的标签增强海产品消费者的能力
IF 3.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-08-23 DOI: 10.1007/s40152-024-00367-z
John A. Aitken, Rex Bone, Marge Britt, Nicholas Leets

Much of the current practice in promoting seafood sustainability relies on providing ecolabels that act as proxies for consumers to let them know that a given product is sustainably sourced. However, this approach does not empower consumers to judge for themselves whether a product is sustainable, which is especially important given the diversity of seafood products and the diversity of personal definitions of sustainability (e.g., a proxy label may not be based on information that a given person cares about). Moreover, proxy labels are provided by many different non-governmental certification organizations with various criteria that are not made fully transparent to consumers, creating a patchwork of labels that confuses rather than empowers. Informative, detailed labels that provide specific sustainability information about a product and that are implemented through a standardized process (i.e., through policy-based mandatory labelling requirements) may provide several advantages to the consumer. However, consumers may prefer proxy labels for their convenience, despite their deficiencies relative to informative labels. Here, we adopt an exploratory approach and evaluate consumer attitudes and behavioral intentions regarding proxy labels versus informative labels. As an initial comparative test of these labels, we utilized an experimental vignette approach and collected data from 90 participants who were interested in general sustainability topics, measuring attitudinal reactions to either a proxy label or an informative label for different seafood products. The results of our experiment show that participants interested in sustainability generally prefer the proxy label to the informative label, although evaluations were high in both regards. Moreover, several sources of descriptive and qualitative data demonstrate that participants were interested in many different pieces of information in evaluating sustainability of a seafood product. We discuss implications of our findings and recommend future research directions to continue to stimulate discussions on this topic.

目前促进海产品可持续发展的大部分做法是提供生态标签,作为消费者的替代品,让他们知道特定产品的来源是可持续的。然而,这种方法并没有赋予消费者自行判断产品是否可持续的能力,鉴于海产品的多样性和个人对可持续性定义的多样性,这一点尤为重要(例如,代理标签可能并不基于特定个人所关心的信息)。此外,代用标签是由许多不同的非政府认证组织提供的,其标准各不相同,对消费者并不完全透明,这就造成了各种标签的拼凑,使消费者无所适从,而不是增强了他们的能力。提供产品具体可持续性信息并通过标准化程序(即通过基于政策的强制性标签要求)实施的信息丰富的详细标签可能会给消费者带来一些好处。然而,尽管代用标签与信息标签相比存在不足,但消费者可能会因为方便而偏爱代用标签。在此,我们采用探索性方法,评估消费者对代理标签和信息标签的态度和行为意向。作为对这些标签的初步比较测试,我们采用了实验小故事的方法,收集了 90 名对一般可持续发展话题感兴趣的参与者的数据,测量他们对不同海鲜产品的代理标签或信息标签的态度反应。实验结果表明,对可持续发展感兴趣的参与者一般更喜欢代理标签,而不是信息标签,尽管对这两种标签的评价都很高。此外,一些描述性和定性数据表明,参与者在评价海鲜产品的可持续性时对许多不同的信息都感兴趣。我们讨论了研究结果的意义,并建议了未来的研究方向,以继续激发对这一主题的讨论。
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Using qualitative research methods to understand how climate variability impacts the livelihoods of fishermen in coastal Ghana 利用定性研究方法了解气候多变性如何影响加纳沿海渔民的生计
IF 3.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI: 10.1007/s40152-024-00382-0
Johnson Ankrah, Ana Monteiro, Helena Madureira

Though climate variability research has largely focused on natural science and quantitative measures, there has been a notable shift towards using social science, including qualitative methods, to understand the impact of climate variability on coastal livelihoods. While these methods have been widely used in many coastal regions, their application in coastal Ghana remains limited. This study used qualitative methods to examine fishermen’s knowledge of climate variability and oceanic impacts on their livelihood opportunities on the central and eastern coasts of Ghana. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather data from 5,250 fishermen and 15 in-depth interviews were conducted with fishing group leaders. The results indicate that, while fishermen are aware of climate variability and oceanic impacts, their knowledge of city and urbanisation processes and their effects as urban climate drivers is limited. They perceived a decrease in the total annual fish catch over the last two decades as a result of overfishing and the practise of light fishing, along with climate variability. Several obstacles hinder the fishermen's activities, including high prices and shortages of premix fuel and saiko (trade in fish at sea between industrial trawlers and Ghanaian canoes). They are dissatisfied with their prevailing livelihood opportunities due to a lack of viable alternative options. The study revealed coastal livelihood initiatives to improve livelihood conditions, sustain fishermen’s activities, and improve their general well-being. There is a need for a policy initiative that prioritises providing practical training and support for fishermen to participate in additional livelihood activities such as agriculture (crops, livestock, and poultry), small business, occasional wage labour, and handicrafts. Additionally, it is important to implement a strategy that ensures an uninterrupted and direct channel of communication and distribution for premix fuel between the fishermen and the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development. Thus, qualitative methods continue to be a beneficial technique for achieving coastal livelihood goals in the face of climate variability.

虽然气候多变性研究主要侧重于自然科学和定量测量,但在利用社会科学,包括定性方法来了解气候多变性对沿海生计的影响方面,已经有了明显的转变。虽然这些方法已在许多沿海地区得到广泛应用,但在加纳沿海地区的应用仍然有限。本研究采用定性方法考察了加纳中部和东部沿海渔民对气候多变性和海洋对其谋生机会的影响的了解。研究采用半结构式访谈收集了 5250 名渔民的数据,并对渔业团体领导人进行了 15 次深入访谈。结果表明,虽然渔民意识到气候多变性和海洋影响,但他们对城市和城市化进程及其作为城市气候驱动因素的影响了解有限。他们认为,在过去二十年里,由于过度捕捞和轻度捕捞以及气候多变性,每年的总渔获量有所下降。一些障碍阻碍了渔民的活动,包括预混燃料和 saiko(工业拖网渔船和加纳独木舟之间的海上鱼类贸易)的高价和短缺。由于缺乏可行的替代选择,他们对现有的谋生机会感到不满。这项研究揭示了改善生计条件、维持渔民活动和提高其总体福利的沿海生计举措。有必要制定一项政策措施,优先为渔民提供实用培训和支持,使他们能够参与其他生计活动,如农业(农作物、牲畜和家禽)、小企业、临时雇佣劳动和手工艺品。此外,重要的是要实施一项战略,确保渔民与渔业和水产养殖发展部之间有一个不间断的直接沟通渠道和预混燃料分配渠道。因此,定性方法仍然是在气候多变的情况下实现沿海生计目标的一项有益技术。
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When all you have is a hammer - integration challenges in coastal zone planning 当你只有一把锤子时--海岸带规划的一体化挑战
IF 3.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1007/s40152-024-00381-1
Patrick Berg Sørdahl, Ingrid Kvalvik

This paper critically examines the evolution of integration as a concept in coastal zone planning through an analysis of Norwegian municipal coastal zone plans spanning a 35-year period. By drawing on the framework of governmentality, we show how the coastal zone and the activities taking place there are being subject to problematizations, rationalizations and technologies for promoting integration. This illustrates how previous spatial dispositions themselves become problematized at later points, giving rise to new rationalizations and new technologies of governing, revealing a dynamic redefinition of integration in response to complex coastal governance challenges. What integration entails is not a given. Instead, it’s a fluid concept, evolving over time in meaning and intent. The paper also shows how ambitions for integrated or comprehensive planning can obscure the purpose of planning and increase complexity. With integration being framed as an undisputed answer to conflicts in the coastal zone, the difficulty of managing the multitude of coastal activities does not lead to a critical discussion on whether ‘integration’ is a fruitful ambition. Instead, it becomes an argument for yet more integrative efforts.

本文通过对挪威市政沿海地区35年规划的分析,批判性地研究了一体化作为沿海地区规划概念的演变过程。通过借鉴 "政府性 "框架,我们展示了沿海地区和在那里开展的活动是如何被问题化、合理化和技术化以促进一体化的。这说明了以前的空间处置本身如何在后期变得问题化,从而产生新的合理化和新的治理技术,揭示了为应对复杂的沿海治理挑战而对一体化进行的动态重新定义。一体化的内涵并不是既定的。相反,它是一个流动的概念,随着时间的推移,其含义和意图也在不断演变。本文还说明了综合或全面规划的雄心壮志如何会模糊规划的目的并增加复杂性。由于综合规划被认为是解决沿岸带冲突的一个无可争议的答案,管理众多沿岸活动的困难并没有导致对 "综合 "是否是一个富有成果的雄心壮志进行批判性的讨论。取而代之的,是为更多的一体化努力提供论据。
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Pacifying seaweed: imagining docile objects for novel blue bioeconomies 安抚海藻:为新型蓝色生物经济想象温顺的对象
IF 3.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1007/s40152-024-00380-2
Sebastián Ureta, Patricio Flores, José Barrena, Paula Miranda

In recent years the blue bioeconomy has been presented as a way for marine-based industries to break with traditional models of relentless resource extraction and extensive damage on marine ecosystems. Centering in innovation and biotechnological enhancement, the concept promises a future that makes compatible continual economic growth with environmental sustainability. In practice, however, the blue bioeconomy still mostly an object of imagination than a reality. In this paper we analyze a leading cause for such lack of effectiveness: the reductionistic ways in which most blue bioeconomy proposals engage with the agencies of marine entities. Adopting an analytical frame from science and technology studies (STS), we understand the multiple strategies oriented to produce neat and simple versions of marine beings as forms of “pacification” that enable the transformation of these beings in commodities that could be easily traded in global markets, at the expense of their sociobiological complexity. To explore the ways in which pacification works, the paper analyzes current attempts at renovating the seaweed industry in Chile. Especially we analyze two policy proposals – one focused on turning seaweed into the basis of a blue carbon economy and the other centered on the potential of seaweed as high-end novel foods for export – showing how they produce a highly pacified versions of seaweed that bear little resemblance with the complex beings populating Chilean seas. Pacified seaweed comes handy for market-oriented policy proposals but tend to fare quite poorly beyond them.

近年来,蓝色生物经济被认为是以海洋为基础的产业打破无情开采资源和广泛破坏海洋生态系统的传统模式的一种途径。这一概念以创新和生物技术提升为核心,承诺了一个经济持续增长与环境可持续发展相协调的未来。然而,在实践中,蓝色生物经济仍主要是一种想象,而非现实。在本文中,我们分析了缺乏有效性的一个主要原因:大多数蓝色生物经济提案与海洋实体机构打交道的简化方式。采用科技研究(STS)的分析框架,我们将旨在生产整齐、简单的海洋生物的多种策略理解为 "平和化 "的形式,这种形式能够将海洋生物转化为易于在全球市场上交易的商品,但却牺牲了其社会生物学的复杂性。为了探究 "安抚 "的作用方式,本文分析了智利目前对海藻产业进行改造的尝试。特别是我们分析了两项政策建议--一项侧重于将海藻转化为蓝碳经济的基础,另一项侧重于海藻作为高端新型出口食品的潜力--表明它们是如何生产出高度绥靖版的海藻的,这些海藻与智利海域中复杂的生物几乎没有相似之处。绥靖型海藻对于以市场为导向的政策建议很有用,但在政策建议之外往往表现不佳。
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A discursive field of contested ethics: Reporting the UK’s blue economy in the making 有争议的伦理话语领域:报道正在形成中的英国蓝色经济
IF 2.2 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1007/s40152-024-00375-z
Gordon Winder
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When borders close: Social networks, resilience and food security among informal cross-border fish traders on the Ghana-Togo border 当边界关闭时:加纳-多哥边境非正规跨境鱼商的社会网络、复原力和粮食安全
IF 3.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-07-12 DOI: 10.1007/s40152-024-00378-w
Maïlys Rouillé, Ragnhild Overå, Amy Atter

Cross-border fish trade contributes to regional food security and is a source of income for informal traders. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the activities of cross-border traders were severely affected. Lockdowns and border closures limited the movement of people and goods, hindering regional trade. The study builds on a survey using semi-structured questionnaires and in-depth interviews conducted in Ghana in 2021 and examines the impacts of the Ghana-Togo border closure on informal cross-border female fish traders’ livelihoods and food security. The findings demonstrate that despite traders’ great efforts to keep their businesses afloat, the border closure affected the traders’ mobility, trade routes, trade volumes, and incomes, which in turn negatively affected the variety and quality of their households’ diets. However, the study also documents how traders were able to implement different strategies to cope with the difficult situation by activating and extending trust-based social networks crucial for trade. The authors therefore conclude that the social embeddedness of fish traders’ informal economic activities was decisive for the resilience of the cross-border trade system during the pandemic, which at least to some degree mitigated the negative effects on traders’ livelihoods and food security.

跨境水产品贸易有助于地区粮食安全,也是非正规贸易商的收入来源。在 COVID-19 大流行期间,跨境贸易商的活动受到严重影响。封锁和关闭边境限制了人员和货物的流动,阻碍了地区贸易。本研究以 2021 年在加纳进行的半结构式问卷调查和深入访谈为基础,探讨了加纳-多哥边境关闭对非正式跨境女性鱼商的生计和粮食安全的影响。研究结果表明,尽管贸易商为维持生意付出了巨大努力,但边境关闭影响了贸易商的流动性、贸易路线、贸易量和收入,进而对其家庭饮食的种类和质量产生了负面影响。不过,研究也记录了贸易商如何通过激活和扩展对贸易至关重要的基于信任的社会网络,实施不同的策略来应对困难局面。因此,作者得出结论认为,鱼商非正规经济活动的社会嵌入性对大流行病期间跨境贸易体系的复原力起到了决定性作用,至少在一定程度上减轻了对鱼商生计和粮食安全的负面影响。
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Coastal fisheries and community-based support systems in post disaster contexts 灾后背景下的沿海渔业和社区支持系统
IF 3.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.1007/s40152-024-00373-1
Clara Obregón, Ada Sokach, Pita Neihapi, Ajay Arudere, Lucy Joy, Regina Ephraim, Jayven Ham, Douglas Koran, Vasemaca Malverus, Abel Sami, Sompert Gereva, Dirk J. Steenbergen

Pacific Island Countries and Territories are highly exposed to natural disasters, intensified by increases in frequency and force of extreme weather events. Pacific societies, like in Vanuatu, have been shaped in many ways by such natural disasters; reflected in customary practices and social fabric of rural coastal communities. When a natural disaster occurs, government attention justifiably focuses on channelling and coordinating international humanitarian aid to fill gaps in capacity and resourcing national recovery efforts. However, central to disaster recovery, particularly in the immediate aftermath of disruption, are the ways that local people support each other (within and between communities). Disconnects between national and local recovery efforts are common and stand to inhibit effective responses. This study aims to understand horizontal, self-organised community-to-community support systems and communities’ post-disaster engagement with external aid. It draws from two different datasets: i) the observations collected through the emergency relief work led by the National Disaster Management Office in Vanuatu shortly after the 2023 twin tropical cyclones Judy and Kevin hit the country, as well as ii) the loss and damage survey led by the Vanuatu Fisheries Department to estimate the level of damage these cyclones caused in various regions of Vanuatu. Through this process, we highlight the social systems that enable community-to-community support, as well as potential opportunities for external-aid to support communities in a more efficient manner. Results reveal that community-to-community support is critical in the first weeks post-disaster. Recognizing the roles that different support networks play at different stages of disaster response is critical not only to improving people's and institutions' ability to bounce back from particular disruptions, but also in broader efforts to strengthen community resilience in the face of climate change.

太平洋岛屿国家和领土极易遭受自然灾害,而极端天气事件的频率和强度的增加又加剧了自然灾害。太平洋社会,如瓦努阿图,在许多方面都受到了自然灾害的影响;这反映在农村沿海社区的习俗和社会结构中。当自然灾害发生时,政府的注意力理所当然地集中在引导和协调国际人道主义援助上,以弥补能力上的不足,并为国家恢复工作提供资源。然而,灾后恢复的核心,尤其是在破坏发生后的第一时间,是当地人(在社区内部和社区之间)相互支持的方式。国家和地方恢复工作之间的脱节很常见,会阻碍有效应对。本研究旨在了解横向的、自发组织的社区对社区支持系统以及社区在灾后对外部援助的参与情况。本研究利用了两个不同的数据集:i)2023 年瓦努阿图遭受双重热带气旋 "朱迪 "和 "凯文 "袭击后不久,瓦努阿图国家灾害管理办公室领导的紧急救援工作中收集的观察结果;ii)瓦努阿图渔业部领导的损失和损害调查,以估算这些气旋在瓦努阿图不同地区造成的损害程度。通过这一过程,我们强调了促成社区对社区支持的社会体系,以及外部援助以更有效的方式支持社区的潜在机会。结果显示,社区对社区的支持在灾后最初几周至关重要。认识到不同的支持网络在灾害应对的不同阶段所发挥的作用,不仅对于提高人们和机构从特定破坏中反弹的能力至关重要,而且对于在气候变化面前加强社区复原力的更广泛努力也至关重要。
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Synthesis of the collection ‘small fish for food and nutrition in the global south: a value chain approach’ 全球南部小鱼促进粮食和营养:价值链方法 "文集综述
IF 3.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1007/s40152-024-00376-y
Thijs Schut, Nireka Weeratunge

This paper is a synthesis of the collection ‘Small fish for food and nutrition in the Global South: A value chain approach’. Small fish, often the most inexpensive available animal protein, are increasingly perceived as contributing to the food security and nutrition of poor and undernourished populations in the Global South. However, the value chains of these fish remain understudied. Therefore, we ask: what are the myriad ways through which small fish reach consumers in countries in Africa and Asia? The papers in this collection explore the value chains of marine and freshwater small fish, which are often consumed whole, and are rich in micronutrients. We give space to rich case studies of these value chains and further theoretical explorations of its various segments. They show a concern for the often-hidden power relations implicit in these value chains and food systems. Moreover, they show how, despite structural limits imposed by social categories or socio-economic transformation, the agency articulated by actors emerge as central, as they negotiate their engagement within small fish value chains.

本文是 "全球南方小鱼促进食品和营养 "文集的综述:价值链方法 "文集的综述。小鱼通常是最廉价的动物蛋白,越来越被认为有助于全球南部贫困和营养不良人口的粮食安全和营养。然而,对这些鱼类的价值链研究仍然不足。因此,我们要问:非洲和亚洲国家的消费者是通过什么途径购买小鱼的?本论文集中的论文探讨了海洋和淡水小鱼的价值链,这些小鱼通常整条食用,富含微量营养素。我们对这些价值链进行了丰富的案例研究,并对其各个环节进行了进一步的理论探索。这些研究表明,这些价值链和食品体系中往往隐含着权力关系。此外,这些研究还表明,尽管社会类别或社会经济转型施加了结构性限制,但当参与者在小鱼价值链中协商参与时,他们所表达的能动性是如何成为核心的。
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