Traders of the Climate Data
Alternate Livelihood for fishery communities
The project presents a plausible future vision for the underprivileged female fishery communities living in coastal India. It speculates the impact of climate change on their livelihoods and how it causes them to assert their agency.
In the changing world, women in marginalised fishing populations are exposed and are sensitive to climate change impacting their livelihoods. The absence of recognized rights over resources contribute to their vulnerability to economic and social structures.
In the plausible future, rather than being a passive receiver of the climatic change, female fishery communities foresee an opportunity. They have not only had expertise in fish trading but also in their local ecosystem: they have been well positioned to observe and record environmental change for generations. They become traders of ‘Climate-Action’ data, vending their generational understanding of dealing with the climate change. It intends the plausibility of this data as a game changer in the dynamic arena of climate change and environmental science. By offering nuanced insight into locally occurring changes, they help to make society climate resilient at the global level.
The Climate Action data packages represent community´s interpretation of the data world interwoven with indigenous knowledge. The information inside the data package is intentionally protected, to emphasize the need for prior and informed consent, and share benefit for the world. It calls out to build an Intellectual property framework adapted to the indigenous culture.
The project resonates with stories of other marginalized communities in some way or the other. Despite their high exposure and sensitivity, local coastal communities are actively responding to climate change. The indigenous, local, and traditional knowledge systems and practices are a significant resource for adapting to climate change. Our society should build a system where current systems tie up traditional systems of governance and social networks reinforce the ability to respond collectively to change and develop resilience.
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