Liz Drury O'Neill
Stockholm Resilience Centre PhD Candidate
Sweden
Liz's research focuses on the middlemen of small-scale fishing communities in developing countries. She is focusing on the fisher-middlemen bonds and market dynamics to understand the social-ecological outcomes of these value chain actors and identify appropriate system interventions. The aim of her PhD research is to discern how global trade affects local ecosystems and how middlemen-fishers relations can channel sustainable practices or lock systems in unsustainable trajectories.