Post 4: 13th March 2024- A Window into shared culture? Iloilo City, Western Visayas, Philippines Tito Alo’s and Tita Gina’s @night with full moon It’s been a while! We are back in the city now post 60 interviews, Jelai and I both nearly lost our voices and were fairly wrecked after those 3.5 weeks! We […]
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Post 3: 11th February 2024 — Arriving @ the Fieldsite, kids & all Sitio Pasil, Barangay Tambaliza, Concepcion, Iloilo, Western Visayas, Philippines We arrived to the amazing fieldsite! Back to my honorary Tito and Tita — Alo and Gina in Sitio Pasil (Barangay Tambaliza) whom I stayed with in 2017 to run the behavioural economic experiments
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Post 2: 24th January 2024 — Travel agencies (Bahala na!) & interpretivism Iloilo City, Western Visayas, Philippines Feeling much better about everything at the moment, I’m still stuck in this academic space with a wee little project all by myself (would much rather be in a project team and support a fun group!) but hey
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Iloilo City, Western Visayas, Philippines Finally opening my computer properly for the first time in a month. Have been on Christmas holidays with the kids since the 16th of December so I couldn’t have opened my laptop even if I wanted to. Before that I have been 100% on parental leave since January 2023, I
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In Philippine fishing communities, gender roles have a bigger influence than price on fishers’ business decisions. Story Highlights: 251 Philippine fisherwomen and fishermen participated in a behavioural economic experiment exploring the link between global market price and fishing behaviour. Gender roles were found to be a stronger predictor than price. Fishers’ will and capacity to
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Ghana’s unique female intermediaries are increasingly squeezed out by global seafood companies. Story Highlights: Story highlights: Tuna has been exploited in Ghana for centuries but over the past 50 years it has developed into a global industry. Female traders called Big Mammies are responsible for sales of up to 25% of the landed tuna to
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Patron-client relations in the Philippines buffer fisheries against immediate impacts of natural disasters. But long-term sustainability may suffer due to the combination with current fishery conditions. Story Highlights: Patron-client relations buffer fisheries against immediate impacts of typhoons and filter aid interventions. This can have negative consequences for the long-term sustainability of livelihoods and the marine
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Navigating the complexity of small-scale fishery interventions: An intersection of agent-based modeling and participatory empirical research In this project we will dive into the octopus fisheries in the Western Indian Ocean and see how agent-based modeling can be combined with empirical participatory research to answer questions about trade-offs, benefit sharing, short- and long term social-ecological
Running 2022-2023 Based at: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University In collaboration with: Universeum, Gothenburg A formas (formas.se) funded communication project One Connected Ocean is a communication project where research from the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University (SRC) is presented at, and together with Universeum, Sweden’s national science center. Photo: SRC staff visit Universeum in
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Study looks at relationships within small-scale fishery market systems, moving beyond economics transactions and fisher-trader connections. Study Highlights: New study looks at complexities of small-scale fishery market structures in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Study highlights importance of understanding the fisher-trader relationship with respect to the broader societal-system in which it’s embedded and considers gender roles. Study also
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