Globalisation and Livelihood Transformations in the Indonesian Seaweed Industry [Paperback]

This book explores the rapidly changing seaweed industry in Indonesia, the largest global producer of carrageenan-bearing seaweeds.

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.

Introduction

Zannie Langford

PART I: Globalisation and the Indonesian seaweed industry

1. The global carrageenan industry

2. The Indonesian seaweed industry

3. The South Sulawesi seaweed industry

PART II: Livelihood transformations

4. Export commodity frontiers and the transformation of village life

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

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