Ocean grabbing: a new wave of twenty first century enclosures
Written by: Nick Buxton, Carsten Pedersen and Mads Christian Barbesgaard
Published: in OpenDemocracy 17 October 2014
Not only are the small-scale fisher communities best placed to ensure food sovereignty, but they are also the starting point for any serious transition towards an ecologically and socially just food regime. In this op-ed, the authors siren the alarm to the global ocean grab and call for “a revolution to bring the oceans back into the global commons.”