Seaweed Farming in Nosy Boraha: Environmental, Social, and Legal Data

An interdisciplinary 2024 study in Nosy Boraha, Madagascar, combines anthropology, marine ecology, and environmental law to assess seaweed farming. The research covers a lagoon area of approximately 600 hectares, with a company operating across about 300 hectares. The dataset was created by Isabel Urbina-Barreto and published under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Assessing livelihood impacts on local communities based on reported working conditions and supplementary income.
• Analyzing benthic habitat composition based on identified seagrass and macroalgal genera.
• Mapping aquaculture expansion based on remote sensing analyses using satellite and drone imagery.
• Studying the co-governance of marine resources based on the interaction between formal legislation and local customary law (Dina).

Strengths

• Interdisciplinary scope covering environmental, social, and legal dimensions.
• Includes remote sensing analyses estimating lagoon size and cultivation plot coverage.
• Explicitly analyzes the role of local customary law (Dina) alongside national legislation.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small (9.5 KB), suggesting limited scope or summary-level data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Isabel Urbina-Barreto via figshare.

Collection Method

Field research combining anthropology, marine ecology, and environmental law, including remote sensing.

Time Range

Study conducted in 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 17:45:31; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nosy Boraha, Madagascar.