The Development of Open-water Algae Farming in Zanzibar: Reflections on the Socioeconomic Impact

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Abstract: 

This article outlines the development of commercial open- water algae farming in Zanzibar in a historic context, with special reference to actual events at the corporate level from the initiation of algae-farming to its present state. These events, which contain policies and intentions of implementation at the producer level, have an array of social implications for the algae-farming communities. The three aspects of these implications are delineated; (i) a changing mode of tenure rights of the farmed lagoon areas; (ii) a changing role for algae farmers, i.e. women; (iii) a qualitative change within the composition of indigenous productive activities, the latter being illustrated by a de- clining activity in agriculture. The article demonstrates the importance of the encounter between an indigenous liveli- hood system and infused incentives pertaining to divergent rationales of livelihood in socioeconomic development processes. 

Author(s): 
Per Pettersson-Löfquist
Link / Ref: 
FAO
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Article Source: 
Ambio , Dec., 1995, Vol. 24, No. 7/8
Category: 
Aquaculture methods
Economics
Geography