dc.contributor.author	Macabuac, Maria Cecilia Fiel	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Dunaway, Wilma A.	en
dc.contributor.committeecochair	Wimberley, Dale W.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Harris, Colette	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Bailey, Carol A.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Ballweg, John A.	en
dc.contributor.department	Sociology	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-14T20:14:15Z	en
dc.date.adate	2005-07-29	en
dc.date.available	2014-03-14T20:14:15Z	en
dc.date.issued	2005-07-15	en
dc.date.rdate	2005-07-29	en
dc.date.sdate	2005-07-24	en
dc.description.abstract	The Philippines is a food extractive enclave in the bust stage of export-oriented aquaculture, and this globalization agenda has had several negative impacts. Aquaculture has not expanded fish and marine foods but threatens national food security by integrating Philippine aquatic resources into the globalized food chain. Following structural adjustment policies imposed beginning in the 1980s, the Philippines shipped massive levels of animal protein to world markets, but this country has grown less food self-sufficient. During the decades that shrimp aquaculture has boomed and busted in the Philippines, the living conditions of Filipino families have steadily worsened. This study of three Panguil Bay fishing communities of Northern Mindanao demonstrates that the survival of subsistent artisan fisher households is now threatened because export-oriented producers have severely degraded the ecosystem upon which they rely. Moreover, women and children are inequitably threatened by the ecological and economic changes that have accompanied the Philippine global aquaculture agenda. In reality, capitalist commodity chains of export-oriented aquaculture externalize to households and to nature much of the true cost of producers and of ecological degradation. As a result, malnourished and impoverished Philippine fishing households subsidize global aquaculture commodity chains. While Filipino fisher households can no longer afford local food costs, their hidden inputs into capitalist commodity chains keep prices of luxury seafoods cheap in rich core countries.	en
dc.description.degree	Ph. D.	en
dc.identifier.other	etd-07242005-083742	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07242005-083742/	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28380	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.haspart	05Bib.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	03Ch123.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	02Intro.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	01frontpages.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	04Ch456.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	06Appendices.pdf	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	fishing household	en
dc.subject	coastal degradation	en
dc.subject	global food chain	en
dc.subject	food extractive enclave	en
dc.subject	subsistence	en
dc.subject	export aquaculture	en
dc.title	After the Aquaculture Bust: Impacts of the Globalized Food Chain on Poor Philippine Fishing Households	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Sociology	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	doctoral	en
thesis.degree.name	Ph. D.	en

After the Aquaculture Bust: Impacts of the Globalized Food Chain on Poor Philippine Fishing Households

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