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Where Shrimp Eat Better than People
Globalized Fisheries, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Asian Hunger
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East, South and Southeast Asia are home to two-thirds of the worldâs hungry people, but they produce more than three-quarters of the worldâs fish and nearly half of other foods. Through integration into the world food system, these Asian fisheries export their most nutritious foods and import less healthy substitutes. Worldwide, their exports sell cheap because women, the hungriest Asians, provide unpaid subsidies to production processes. In the 21st century, Asian peasants produce more than 60 percent of the regional food supply, but their survival is threatened by hunger, public depeasantization policies, climate change, land grabbing, urbanization and debt bondage.
*Where Shrimp Eat Better than People: Globalized Fisheries, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Asian Hunger is now available in paperback for individual customers.
*Where Shrimp Eat Better than People: Globalized Fisheries, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Asian Hunger is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Wilma A. Dunaway, Ph.D. (1994), University of Tennessee. Professor Emerita, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia Tech. In addition to six monographs, she is editor of Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing the Hidden Womenâs Work and Laborer Households in Global Production.
Maria Cecilia Macabuac, Ph.D. (2005), Virginia Tech. Professor and Director for University Extension, Mindanao State University, Iligan Institute of Technology. Author of numerous articles about Philippine fisheries, mining communities, womenâs work and depeasantization. Has extensive experience in ethnographic field research.
Maria Cecilia Macabuac, Ph.D. (2005), Virginia Tech. Professor and Director for University Extension, Mindanao State University, Iligan Institute of Technology. Author of numerous articles about Philippine fisheries, mining communities, womenâs work and depeasantization. Has extensive experience in ethnographic field research.
"Where Shrimp Eat Better than People offers a powerful critique of the global-industrial food regime, through the lens of the fish tradeâs exploitation of Asian fisherfolk and extractive dietary impacts on fishing communities. Ethnographic and socio-ecological analysis of a Philippine coastal region reveals processes of global nutritional bifurcation as local self-provisioning declines. This is a timely and remarkable exposé of the dialectic of impoverishment via enrichment along corporate food supply chains." Philip McMichael, Cornell University.
Acknowledgments
List of Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
â1 Scholarly Significance and Investigative Goals
â2 Methods of Inquiry and Areas of Study
â3 What Do We Promise Readers Conceptually?
â4 Organization of the Book
1 The Asian Fishery Crisis, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Food Insecurity
â1 Trends in Asian Fishery Production and Nutritional Shortfalls
â2 Investigative Questions
â3 Conflict between Food Security and Food/Fishery Exporting
â4 Dependence on Imports as Threat to Food Security
â5 Nonfoods and Asian Food Security
â6 Will Aquaculture Solve Asian Protein and Iron Shortfalls?
â7 Food Security and Pressures toward Depeasantization
â8 Ecological Degradation of Asian Fisheries and Food Insecurity
â9 Intra-national Inequalities in Food Access
â10 Impacts of Wastage on Food Security
â11 Looking to Future Chapters
2 Debt, Resource Exploitation and Integration into the World Agro-Food System
â1 The Role of External Development Agencies
â2 Philippine Elites and Economic Restructuring
â3 Government Promotion of Agricultural Exports
â4 Government Promotion of Capture Fishing for Export
â5 Government Promotion of Acquaculture for Export
â6 Ecological Impacts of the Philippine Agro-Industrial Export Strategy â7 Looking to the Future
3 Globalized Food and Asian Hunger The Philippine Case
â1 Privileging Exports over Local Consumption
â2 Import Dependence and Risks to Food Security
â3 Transformation of Foods into Nonfoods
â4 Class Polarization and Inequalities in Food Access
â5 Looking to the Future
4 Commodity-Chained Peasants Construction of the Philippine Food Extractive Enclave 166
â1 Transformation of Panguil Bay Agriculture
â2 Transformation of Capture Fishing
â3 Transformation and Expansion of Aquaculture
â4 Integrating the Panguil Bay Fishery into National and Global Commodity Chains
â5 Is Philippine Fish Marketing Culturally Unique?
â6 Ecological Impacts of Global Integration
â7 Food Insecurity in Panguil Bay Communities
â8 Looking to the Future
5 The World Does Not Weep for Us Semiproletarianized Households, Nonwaged Labor and Depeasantization
â1 Hidden Household Subsidies to Export Commodity Chains â2 Conceptualizing Capitalist Externalization of Costs to Households
â3 Externalization of Costs to Peasant Fishing Communities
â4 Pressures to Depeasantize Panguil Bay
â5 Debt Bondage as Externalized Cost
â6 Threats to Peasant Livelihoods
â7 Alteration and Intensification of Womenâs Work
â8 âThe Shrimp Live Better Than We Doâ: Threats to Human Survival
â9 Looking to the Future
6 Endlessly Toiling The Gendered Inequalities of Fisher Household Survival
â1 Conceptualizing the Semiproletarian Portfolio of Diverse Labors
â2 Inequitable Management of Scarce Labor Time
â3 Arrangement of Household Credit
â4 Restructuring Household Boundaries
â5 Inequitable Pooling and Allocation of Household Resources
â6 Conflict over Household Budget Management
â7 Looking to the Future
7 Climate Change, Land Grabbing and the Future of Asian Food Security
â1 Climate Change, Peasant Persistence and Asian Food Security
â2 Land Grabbing and Asian Food Security
â3 Conclusion
8 Propping Up the World Food System The Future of Hungry Asian Farmers and Fishers
â1 Looking toward the Future of Asian Food Insecurity
â2 Peasant Contributions to Asian Food Security
â3 Will There Be an Historical Transition to Large Asian Farms?
â4 Deruralization, Occupational Multiplicity and Asian Peasant Persistence
â5 Asian Debt Bondage and the World Food System
â6 Will Asian Peasants Persist in the 21st Century?
â7 Conclusion: Seeing Hunger through the Fisherwomanâs Lens
Bibliograhie
Index
List of Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
â1 Scholarly Significance and Investigative Goals
â2 Methods of Inquiry and Areas of Study
â3 What Do We Promise Readers Conceptually?
â4 Organization of the Book
1 The Asian Fishery Crisis, Nutritional Unequal Exchange and Food Insecurity
â1 Trends in Asian Fishery Production and Nutritional Shortfalls
â2 Investigative Questions
â3 Conflict between Food Security and Food/Fishery Exporting
â4 Dependence on Imports as Threat to Food Security
â5 Nonfoods and Asian Food Security
â6 Will Aquaculture Solve Asian Protein and Iron Shortfalls?
â7 Food Security and Pressures toward Depeasantization
â8 Ecological Degradation of Asian Fisheries and Food Insecurity
â9 Intra-national Inequalities in Food Access
â10 Impacts of Wastage on Food Security
â11 Looking to Future Chapters
2 Debt, Resource Exploitation and Integration into the World Agro-Food System
â1 The Role of External Development Agencies
â2 Philippine Elites and Economic Restructuring
â3 Government Promotion of Agricultural Exports
â4 Government Promotion of Capture Fishing for Export
â5 Government Promotion of Acquaculture for Export
â6 Ecological Impacts of the Philippine Agro-Industrial Export Strategy â7 Looking to the Future
3 Globalized Food and Asian Hunger The Philippine Case
â1 Privileging Exports over Local Consumption
â2 Import Dependence and Risks to Food Security
â3 Transformation of Foods into Nonfoods
â4 Class Polarization and Inequalities in Food Access
â5 Looking to the Future
4 Commodity-Chained Peasants Construction of the Philippine Food Extractive Enclave 166
â1 Transformation of Panguil Bay Agriculture
â2 Transformation of Capture Fishing
â3 Transformation and Expansion of Aquaculture
â4 Integrating the Panguil Bay Fishery into National and Global Commodity Chains
â5 Is Philippine Fish Marketing Culturally Unique?
â6 Ecological Impacts of Global Integration
â7 Food Insecurity in Panguil Bay Communities
â8 Looking to the Future
5 The World Does Not Weep for Us Semiproletarianized Households, Nonwaged Labor and Depeasantization
â1 Hidden Household Subsidies to Export Commodity Chains â2 Conceptualizing Capitalist Externalization of Costs to Households
â3 Externalization of Costs to Peasant Fishing Communities
â4 Pressures to Depeasantize Panguil Bay
â5 Debt Bondage as Externalized Cost
â6 Threats to Peasant Livelihoods
â7 Alteration and Intensification of Womenâs Work
â8 âThe Shrimp Live Better Than We Doâ: Threats to Human Survival
â9 Looking to the Future
6 Endlessly Toiling The Gendered Inequalities of Fisher Household Survival
â1 Conceptualizing the Semiproletarian Portfolio of Diverse Labors
â2 Inequitable Management of Scarce Labor Time
â3 Arrangement of Household Credit
â4 Restructuring Household Boundaries
â5 Inequitable Pooling and Allocation of Household Resources
â6 Conflict over Household Budget Management
â7 Looking to the Future
7 Climate Change, Land Grabbing and the Future of Asian Food Security
â1 Climate Change, Peasant Persistence and Asian Food Security
â2 Land Grabbing and Asian Food Security
â3 Conclusion
8 Propping Up the World Food System The Future of Hungry Asian Farmers and Fishers
â1 Looking toward the Future of Asian Food Insecurity
â2 Peasant Contributions to Asian Food Security
â3 Will There Be an Historical Transition to Large Asian Farms?
â4 Deruralization, Occupational Multiplicity and Asian Peasant Persistence
â5 Asian Debt Bondage and the World Food System
â6 Will Asian Peasants Persist in the 21st Century?
â7 Conclusion: Seeing Hunger through the Fisherwomanâs Lens
Bibliograhie
Index
Wide readership of academics, NGO professionals, policymakers, and gradaute students interested in hunger, critical food studies, unequal exchange, commodity chains, Asian women, ecological change, and fisheries. Suitable for upper-division undergraduates.