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This blog post reflects on the deeper partnership between One Ocean Hub researchers in South Africa, small-scale fishing cooperatives in the Eastern Cape and other partners, including local legal-aid NGOs that have become new Hub partners, on a series of challenges related to the recognition, respect and realization of small-scale fishers’ fishing and human rights. […]

The One Ocean Hub family is delighted to welcome within the fold of its project partners (with allocated budget) local and national non-governmental organizations that have developed partnerships with researchers and community co-researchers in Ghana, Namibia and South Africa. These more formal partnerships are a way to recognize their distinctive contribution to the Hub’s vision […]

“We interrogate the role of non-academic collaborators […] and argue that future transdisciplinarity will need to address power imbalances in existing research methods to achieve knowledge co-production, as opposed to knowledge integration” Transdisciplinarity is a growing expectation of academic research and regarded as an important practice required to reach the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development […]

In 2021, the One Ocean Hub and partners participated and contributed towards “increasing visibility” of the ocean in climate dialogues at the Glasgow Climate COP26. We amplified voices of those who are marginalized from ocean-climate decision making process such as women, children, youth and small-scale fishers by sharing stories and experiences, lived realities, of the […]

My name is Mia Strand, and I am a social science early-career researcher from Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, South Africa. My research area centres around arts-based knowledge co-production for more equitable and inclusive area-based ocean management. My previous work has focused on community-based participatory research methods, gender and human rights, the coloniality of development […]

Researchers at the University of Cape Town recently completed a study on marine biodiscovery in South Africa focused on science, conservation, governance and equity. The interdisciplinary study, undertaken by Professor Rachel Wynberg, postdoctoral fellow Dr Jessica Lavelle and PhD student Jennifer Whittingham through the Bio-economy Chair, brought together the perspectives of scientists, policymakers, regulators, legal […]

In recent years the use of drones for recreational fishing purposes has dramatically increased, raising ethical concerns amongst fellow anglers, potential privacy and safety concerns amongst the public, increased conflict between fisher groups, as well as having deleterious effects on the targeted fish species and other animals that inhabit the near shore coastal zone. Given […]

In the wake of the ‘summer of climate disasters’ – as July and August 2022 were dubbed by The New York Times – the latest report by Ian Fry, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change focuses on the promotion and protection of human […]

Following up on the historic recognition by the UN General Assembly of the human right to a healthy environment, the UN Environment Management Group invited the Hub Director, Prof Elisa Morgera, to deliver a keynote speech on the topic of “the right to a healthy environment in the context of biodiversity loss” on 21 September 2022. […]