Posted on behalf of Courtney Kehoe, Master’s student at the University of Ottawa After attending the PE-3C Conference last month in Wageningen (a quaint little town in the Netherlands, some eighty-five kilometers southeast of Amsterdam) I found myself absolutely fascinated by the way environmental governance is being transformed – not just in Southeast Asia, but the world over! The photo
Posted on behalf of Yingbin Guo, Master’s Student, Yunnan University I always thought that the market was there and any product could be sold freely but the case of Dendrobium devonianum Paxt in Longling has changed my opinion. Dendrobium is a medical and edible, dual purpose plant, which is said to nourish lungs and stomachs, clear heat and promote fluid, moistening lungs
NDEG faculty and students met in the Netherlands this week for a project workshop and found some time to enjoy the sun! More details on the workshop to come…
Blog posted on behalf of Mom Sary – Master’s Student, Chiang Mai University I conducted three months of field research from mid-October, 2015 to mid-January, 2016 in Toul Korki commune, Koh Kong province, Cambodia. There are four villages in Toul Korki commune including Toul Korki Krom, Toul Korki Leu, Koh Chak, and Tachat village. Key local people in these four
The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) have been under the spotlight for the conservation and management of tuna resources in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. As custodians of one of the worlds richest tuna fishing grounds, the PNA have introduced the Vessel Day Scheme (VDS) to cap fishing effort by selling fishing days to distant water fishing nations
Author: K. Roberts, PhD Candidate York University Conducting research in hard to reach locations and conducting research when not from those locations presents its own challenges. All hail that advent of preliminary research and collaborations! As a North American working in the uplands of Southeast Asia, I could not have moved forward without the privilege of spending nearly my entire
The main reason why I am in South-East Asia is because I did not like the idea of me writing a thesis on shrimp farming, without ever having seen a shrimp farm. In Vietnam, about 80 percent of the shrimp farms are located in the South. There are some shrimp farms in the centre and the North of the country,
In the past week some of our NDEG members travelled all the way to the beautiful island state of Malta, known for its azure waters, historical legacy and seafood. And that latter was the reason for going there: the annual Seaweb Sustainable Seafood Summit took place on 1-3 February. There were fieldtrips and a workshop, plenty of interviews, networking and
Posted on September 10, 2015 by Simon Bush Eco-certification in food sectors such as seafood is often thought as a very ‘market-based’ affair. By buying a eco-labelled fish consumers are thought to increase demand for that product and influence a producer to improve their production practices. In a recent paper published in Environment and Planning A, we provide a theoretical
By: Simon Bush Governing fisheries is a terribly territorial affair. This fish belongs to you, that fish belongs to us. You can fish there, we are fishing here. When fisheries head to the high seas, it gets even more complex. They are all our fish, and very few restrictions on where we can fish. But does a territorial approach limit
