Poster for the Congress of Ethnobiology – May 2024
In May 2024, we are participating in the 18th International Society of Ethnobiology Congress (ISE Congress 2024) in Marrakech, Marroco, with the poster presented below.
The Congress is a great opportunity to meet with World experts in ethno-ecology, ethno-biology, and political and environmental sciences. The variety and variability of life known as biodiversity and the symbiosis of human activity and environment expressed in cultural landscapes nourish debates within international conventions ratified by hundreds of nations.
Our team has presented a poster on Inland fisheries agro-ecological knowledge in the coastal areas of the Sundarbans (India and Bangladesh), Emilie Cremin, University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland.
Emilie CREMIN* 1 , Souradip Pathak2 , Faisal Imran Md3 , Jenia Mukherjee2 , Samiya Selim4 , Poulami Ghosh2 , René Véron1
1 University of Lausanne (UNIL)
2 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur
3 University of Liberal Arts of Bangladesh (ULAB)
4 Sajida Foundation
Small-scale fishing practices including forest and inland fishing are found to be one of the dominant livelihood practices in Sundarbans. This small-scale fishing practice in the Sundarbans is exposed to various socio-ecological and political challenges before rapidly increasing climate change-induced risks and hazards. In the recent past, the Indian Sundarbans marked a gradual tendency among the small-scale fishing community to adopt inland fishing for generating livelihood as forest fishing entails manifold risks ranging from various stressors. However, the prevalent traditional practice of inland fishing in Sundarbans still lags in terms of scalability as it comes across various constraints. Moreover, reflections from the Indian Sundarbans reveal that in each of the laps, the current inland fishing practice is found to be vulnerable as it miserably fails to tap the local natural-ecological, socio-economic, and cultural knowledge base and other several technical know-how, and supportive interventions. The current study captures how the method of knowledge co-production could gain relevance in addressing the existing set of vulnerabilities toward coming up with a practice-based inland fishing design. Focusing on the case study of Kumirmari, one of the remotest islands from the Indian Sundarbans, the study explores how the (free) flow and exchange of knowledge toward the co-development of an inland fishing design could be potent enough to capture the best practices in inland fishing. Thus, this study presents how the method of knowledge coproduction through the transdisciplinary engagement of different stakeholders is imperative in translating g place-based, bottom-up agro-ecological knowledge base into an action-oriented inland fishing
design by tapping the nodes of challenges and opportunities.
Keywords: Coast, resilience, fisheries, coproduction
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