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Topic 1. Impacts of marine pollution on biodiversity and coastal livelihoods (MABICO)This project aims to assess threats to marine resources and biodiversity arising from pollution, resulting impacts on human health and food security, and strategies to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities to biodiversity loss and pollution and to improve the sustainable use of marine resources. Over 50 million people are directly depending on coastal resources in Indonesia. Pollution has a severe impact onto the livelihoods of coastal communities, influencing natural habitats and marine biodiversity. This can have serious consequences for food security and the sustainable use of marine coastal ecosystems. Seafood can also be naturally affected by marine biota, such as parasitic organisms and other pathogens. There is an urgent need to explore and quantify the negative effects of anthropogenic pollution on coastal and marine resources, including the identification of problematic organisms affecting food quality. This also requires an understanding of the use and importance of marine living resources for local communities and the international markets. The improvement of food security and sustainable livelihoods for 50 million Indonesian coastal inhabitants is a national priority identified in Indonesian policies such as the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) National Plan of Action and the Manado Ocean Declaration. Working towards this aim, the project comprises six complementary research subprojects, with bilateral contributions. An additional subproject on capacity building integrates contributions from all project partners to develop an interdisciplinary training course on pollution and food security for Indonesian and German participants. It supports the development of the necessary capacity to diagnose and address threats for biodiversity and food security arising from coastal and marine pollution in Indonesia beyond the completion of the SPICE program. |
Coordination
in Germany Dr. Andreas Kunzmann Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) Fahrenheitstr. 6 28359 Bremen andreas.kunzmann@zmt-bremen.de in Indonesia Dr. Singgih Wibowo Research Center for Marine and Fisheries Product Processing and Biotechnology Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) Jakarta paksingh@yahoo.com |
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