Ocean grabbing: a new wave of twenty first century enclosures
Published: in OpenDemocracy 17 October 2014
In their article published in Open Democracy Nick Buxton, Carsten Pedersen and Mads Christian Barbesgaard alert us to the issue of ocean grabbing and call for an end to the privatisation of the oceans. They argue that the rise of market-based fishing policies that favour large-scale aqua-industries is systematically dispossessing fishers of the means to livelihood.
Read the Global Ocean Grab for more.