"The Ocean is our Farm": Marine Conservation, Food Insecurity, and Social Suffering in Southeastern Tanzania

摘要: This paper examines the social impact of a large-scale marine conservation project (Marine Park) in coastal region Mtwara, southeastern Tanzania, following displacement and enforcement restrictions on fishing extracting resources. Through an analysis interviews focus group discussions with residents six villages, illustrates how undesired effects Marine Park have become part people’s everyday discourse regarding hardships their experiences violence life. Elicited narratives provide insights into Park, combination multiplicity factors leading to displacement, dispossession, dislocation, has intensified hardships, especially among female-headed households, due increasing poverty, marginalization, food-related insecurity. The shed light lived disempowerment, feelings humiliation, anger, despair, low self-esteem, extreme resentment—in essence, suffering. makes case for addressing human dimensions biodiversity interventions as key step making them genuinely collaborative sustainable terms equity ecological effectiveness.