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V2V THEMATIC WEBINAR SERIES 2025

V2V JULY THEMATIC WEBINAR

 
 

Dispossession in the Coastal Space: Pathways from Vulnerabilities to Viability

Marine and coastal scapes are undergoing transformation that has serious ecological, livelihood, and nutrition consequences. Increasing demand for fishmeal in the shrimp value chain and competition in the sea, coupled with ecological fragility of coastal and marine spaces is leading towards ecological dispossessions in the land and the sea. Capital intensive blue growth models, ignoring the small-scale fisheries and changing nature of fisheries practices, including cage culture, has implications for livelihoods, especially for the women engaged in fish processing and trading. Shifts from fish for food to fish for feed has serous implications for nutrition security. Based on research from the Karnataka coast in India this talk will narrate the ecological, livelihood, and nutrition dispossessions and impress on a plausible pathway to address these for facilitating transitions towards viable SSF. 

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V2V JUNE THEMATIC WEBINAR

 
 

Trade in Small Fish in Western Africa – Artisanal ‘Fish4Food’ System Entangled in Fishmeal

Small pelagic fish products are vital for livelihoods, poverty alleviation, and food security across Africa. However, climate-induced biological shifts are causing pelagic species to migrate northward toward the Canary Current, threatening catch abundance in the Guinea Currents. This positions artisanal processing and land-based trade networks as key to redistributing fish and addressing regional imbalances. However, these ‘fish4food’ systems in the Canary Current are increasingly entangled in the growing fishmeal and fish oil industries in Senegal and Mauritania. This talk looks at the dynamics of small ‘fish4food’ processing and trade networks, highlighting how these systems have been disrupted and shaped considerably by industrial demand pressures. Small-scale fish transformation sectors remain critical to these regional value chains, but their capacity to sustain, participate in, contribute to and expand faces challenges, including access to raw materials, price competition, financing constraints, infrastructure challenges and problems with commercialisation.

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V2V MAY THEMATIC WEBINAR

 
 

Understanding the Linkages Between Blue Economy, Blue Growth and Blue Justice for Transitions Toward Viability:

A case study in Indonesia

Transitions from blue growth to blue justice emphasize that growth alone is insufficient even if it is economically and ecologically efficient. Growth needs to be equitable in distribution, inclusive in its processes, and must recognize the diversity of local actors and their identities. Blue justice is a concept that positions coastal communities not merely as objects, but as active participants in development processes. This presentation identifies several indicators to better understand transitions of coastal communities from their relatively vulnerable socio-economic-ecological conditions to viability which is used as a measure of blue justice. It uses results from research collaboratively undertaken by a team of senior scholars and early career researchers in the coastal-marine fisheries systems of Demak and Pati regions in Indonesia's central Java province. Through a systematic mapping of blue economy activities, this talk offers nuanced understanding of the conditions that can promote blue growth and facilitate blue justice as a mutually inclusive process.

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V2V APRIL THEMATIC WEBINAR

 
 

Envisioning Marine Bioregionalism for Small-Scale Fisheries

Bioregions are ecologically distinct areas defined by natural features—like watersheds, climate, and species—rather than political borders. While often applied to land, this concept also fits marine spaces, where ecosystems are shaped by currents, depth, and vast species biodiversity. Envisioning marine bioregionalism offers a way to manage ocean resources based on ecological connectivity, not national boundaries. This aligns with small-scale fisheries, which have historically operated across fluid, bioregional spaces—following fish migrations rather than state lines. Recognizing marine bioregions could improve fisheries governance, supporting both ecosystem health and the traditional practices of small-scale fisheries and coastal communities. 

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V2V MARCH THEMATIC WEBINAR

 
 

A Transboundary Governance Approach for SSF

in the Gulf of Guinea

This talk proposes a transboundary governance approach for coastal small-scale fisheries along the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). For several generations, migrant fishers and their families have followed fishing channels and settled permanently in neighboring countries, where they participate in activities along the fish value chain. In some countries (e.g., Cameroon and Liberia), migrant fishers dominate and control the fishery system. This talk will discuss the implications around migrant fishers and the governance complexities of SSF actors in a region with historical evidence of marginalization and neglect.

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V2V FEBRUARY THEMATIC WEBINAR

 
 

Governing for Transformation towards Sustainable

Small-Scale Fisheries

The speakers will discuss several social science-oriented approaches that have shaped recent thinking about small-scale fisheries. The intended audience for this open-access FAO book is broad-based and includes fisheries and aquatic management practitioners and policymakers, scientists and educators. It is an invitation to a new generation of resource managers to be aware of how approaches and concepts have evolved over time to embrace the challenge of advancing transformation towards a more inclusive, equitable, sustainable, and less vulnerable small-scale fisheries.

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V2V JANUARY THEMATIC WEBINAR

 
 

What is Transdisciplinary? Think Jazz!

Ten years since their inception, the SSF Guidelines are now in the stage of implementation. They expect state governments to act and civil society organizations to join in, but also the academic community to do its part. They realize the relevance of research but leave it to us to figure out what knowledge should be developed. Still, the Guidelines give lots of hints between the lines. They call for research that is both holistic and bottom-up, acknowledging the role of local knowledge in science lingua: transdisciplinary research. In my presentation, I will discuss what transdisciplinarity is, what characterizes it as a learning process, and what the merits and obstacles are. I argue that we should think of it as a form of jazz, requiring both skills and playfulness. 

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