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Environmental governance in the global agro-food system: A study of shrimp aquaculture in Bangladesh.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Environmental governance in the global agro-food system: A study of shrimp aquaculture in Bangladesh./
Author:	Islam, Md. Saidul.
Description:	338 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-06A.
Subject:	Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR39015
ISBN:	9780494390153

Environmental governance in the global agro-food system: A study of shrimp aquaculture in Bangladesh.
Islam, Md. Saidul.

Environmental governance in the global agro-food system: A study of shrimp aquaculture in Bangladesh. - 338 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University (Canada), 2008.

Globalization of the agro-food system has led developing nations to orient their production to meet global markets. Consequently, local agricultural systems are increasingly linked to global commodity networks, and generate complex intersections and sometimes tensions. Cultured shrimp in Bangladesh is such a global commodity that connects the local producers with the consumers in the Global North through a network of diverse actors in a complex manner. By using two conceptual threads---global commodity chain (GCC) and environmental governance (EG)---this study explores some broad trajectories of the global agro-food system: environmental change, agrarian transformation, contours of regulations governing the commodity chain, and patterns of labor and employment relations. Field research in Bangladesh shows that many Bangladeshi rice farmers are switching over to commercial shrimp because of its high transnational value. As the rural economy is increasingly linked to the global shrimp commodity chain, it has generated significant changes both in environmental and 'agrarian landscapes of rural Bangladesh. The study discerned a shift of aquaculture towards a twin-driven commodity chain (TDCC) in which lead firms govern supply networks, while the Shrimp Seal of Quality Organization (SSOQ), a recently emerged third-party certifier, as well as other environmental NGOs tend to define regulatory aspects of the industry. While governance in TDCC offers opportunities for a sustainable aquaculture, it also poses many questions which have broader sociological implications for different stakeholders involved in the chain. The study also explored how these twofold pressures and other factors affect gender and employment relations in the local supply chain. It has been found that the feminization of the workforce in aquaculture is accompanied by the marginality of females, who receive lower wage and social prestige than their male counterparts. In addition to being flexible (part-time, temporary, casual), much of the employment in Bangladesh shrimp aquaculture is also informal, without an employment contract or its associated rights. Though the new production regime changes the rural landscapes as foreign cash flows in the local economy, the regime has not benefited all social strata.

ISBN: 9780494390153Subjects--Topical Terms:

1020913
Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture.

Environmental governance in the global agro-food system: A study of shrimp aquaculture in Bangladesh.
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