A Sea of one’s own: Mariculture has driven women’s empowerment through better incomes and greater bargaining power. This article argues for active state intervention to protect the interests of women in the sector

C., Ramachandran (2011) A Sea of one’s own: Mariculture has driven women’s empowerment through better incomes and greater bargaining power. This article argues for active state intervention to protect the interests of women in the sector. Yemaya (38). pp. 4-6. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

Mariculture, which includes musselfarming, seaweed farming andopen-sea cage culture, is the science of cultivating useful organisms in a marine environment. Globally, mariculture production has gone through a period of rapid growth in recent times, from 0.5 mn tonnes in 1950 to 10 mn tonnes in 1990 and to 36 mn tonnes by 2007. Currently, 106 nations are engaged in mariculture production. Just as agriculture makes land-based production systems a contested space, mariculture makes the marine production system also a contested space, characterized by the struggle for human livelihood. This struggle has several ecological as well as political dimensions. One such dimension is gender.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM330
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, India, Mariculture, Women, Empowerment, Income, Customary Rights, Technology, Property Rights, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 12:47
Last Modified:	19 May 2022 07:10
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/721

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