The Rising Precarity and Survival Strategies of Women Prawn Seedling Catchers of the Sundarbans

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Brief Overview

This paper focuses on women in informal economy who catch prawn seedling in the Sundarbans, where poverty drives them every year to collect tiger prawn seedlings under perilous, and unrewarding conditions.

Author

• Taneesha Mohan, University of Colorado Boulder