INDEV101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Chilika Lake, Food Security
23 Nov 2016
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Week 12: vicious cycles of poverty, marginalization and underdevelopment: linking global drivers with local and. Key drivers are aquaculture in the 1980s and the artificial sea mouth. Resulted in serious changes in the lagoon ecosystem. Cumulative impact contributed to severe food insecurity. People tend to argue that there is always a higher level driver, which influences local and regional levels. It is not always true, it is a reverse process also. Impacts of local and regional changes in chilika on higher scales: poverty and food insecurity at national and global scales. People started to be marginalized, lost rights to resources, experienced food security etc. Adds people to the number of those who are under the poverty line. Modernization to an export-oriented aquaculture comes at a cost (0. 4 million people added to insecurity map at national and global scale: meeting international development targets. Becomes a barrier to achieving targets (at that time, mdgs)
