1st Edition

Globalisation and Livelihood Transformations in the Indonesian Seaweed Industry

Edited By Zannie Langford Copyright 2024
302 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

302 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the rapidly changing seaweed industry in Indonesia, the largest global producer of carrageenan-bearing seaweeds. Seaweed production in Indonesia has grown exponentially over the last twenty years, and rural communities across the country have embraced this new livelihood activity. This book begins with an examination of the global carrageenan seaweed industry, from the global... Read more

Introduction

Zannie Langford

PART I: Globalisation and the Indonesian seaweed industry

Chapter 1. The global carrageenan industry

Jing Zhang, Zannie Langford and Scott Waldron

Chapter 2. The Indonesian seaweed industry

Scott Waldron, Zannie Langford, Syamsul Pasaribu, Nunung Nuryartono, Boedi Julianto and Irsyadi Siradjuddin

Chapter 3. The South Sulawesi seaweed industry

Radhiyah Ruhon, Scott Waldron, Zannie Langford, Adam Komarek, Jing Zhang and Eko Cahyadi

PART II: Livelihood transformations

Chapter 4. Export commodity frontiers and the transformation of village life

Zannie Langford, Radhiyah Ruhon, Zulung Zach Walyandra and Risya Arsyi Armis

Chapter 5. From communal access to private ownership: Negotiating rights to the sea

Zannie Langford, Radhiyah Ruhon, Zulung Zach Walyandra, Risya Arsyi Armis and Imran Lapong

Chapter 6. Environmental and socio-economic constraints to marine farming.

Zannie Langford, Radhiyah Ruhon, Zulung Zach Walyandra, Imran Lapong and Risya Arsyi Armis

Chapter 7. Farmer decision-making

Zannie Langford, Radhiyah Ruhon, Zulung Zach Walyandra, Imran Lapong and Risya Arsyi Armis

Chapter 8. Gendered work and casual labour in the Indonesian seaweed industry

Zannie Langford, Radhiyah Ruhon, Zulung Zach Walyandra, Risya Arsyi Armis and Imran Lapong

Chapter 9. Seaweed marketing: Village-based traders as financial and market intermediaries

Zannie Langford, Radhiyah Ruhon, Zulung Zach Walyandra, Risya Arsyi Armis and Imran Lapong

Conclusion

Zannie Langford

Biography

Zannie Langford is Research Fellow at the Griffith University Asia Institute and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability at the University of Queensland, where she undertook the research for this book. Her current research explores shifts in development financing in Indonesia and the Pacific. She has also undertaken a range of applied research projects focusing on land tenure, global value chains, smallholder agribusiness and rural development financing in Northern Australia, Indonesia and the Pacific.