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Understanding Environmental Sustainability and Information Practices in Global South Fish Farming

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This project investigates environmental sustainability and information-sharing practices in the Global South, particularly among low-resource fish farming communities. Our ongoing ethnographic study with rural Bangladeshi fish farmers found that these communities develop an understanding of environmental sustainability through formal and informal training and via close-knit groups on social platforms. When communicating with other fish farmers on social platforms, they often confront misleading information about climate and environment and struggle to validate it. Therefore, the fish farmers form support groups to combat it collectively. We believe the findings of this work will inform HCI about how to grow mass awareness of environmental sustainability among farming professionals in low-resource areas using ICTs.

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