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This article summarizes Chapter 12, Diverse Seaweed Farming Livelihoods in Indonesian Villages, from an e-book entitled Tropical Phyconomy Coalition Development: Focus on Eucheumatoid Seaweeds. The authors collected primary data by surveying 273 seaweed farmers in South Sulawesi, the biggest seaweed-producing province in Indonesia which produces approximately 20% of the global supply of carrageenan seaweed, representing 32% […]

In this article, we will discuss the production process of semi-refined carrageenan (SRC). This article is written by a team of academics from the Chemical Engineering Department of Sepuluh November Institute of Technology in 2023. Carrageenan is a linear polysaccharide with galactose as its monomers, extracted from seaweed of the class Rhodophyceae. Carrageenan is available

Impact of Microplastics and Nanoplastics on Human Health Do you want to know the impact of microplastics and nanoplastics on human health? This article may answer your curiosity. To date, micro- and nanoplastic fragments have been detected in honey, beer, salt, sugar, fish, shrimp, bivalves, and water (tap, bottled, and spring waters). People get plastic

This article was written by three academics from the Master’s Program in Development Studies, except for the section updating the number of human trafficking victims in 2022, which was taken from Narasi TV. The issue of human trafficking in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) is not yet resolved. Every year, NTT faces this humanitarian issue, and

This article is the summary of Chapter 8, The Bio Economic Seaweed Model (BESeM) for Modeling Kappaphycus Cultivation in Indonesia, from an e-book entitled Tropical Phyconomy Coalition Development: Focus on Eucheumatoid Seaweeds, written by various authors. While the discussion centers on Kappaphycus alvarezii, a similar study could also apply to Eucheuma spinosum and Gracilaria. Using

More than 350 million tons of plastic waste pollutes the land, rivers and oceans every year. Pollution gets worse with some solutions that don’t actually solve the problem, including the following: Biobased Plastic: This plastic is made from biomass (corn, potato flour, wood pulp, or sugar cane). However, this plastic is not environmentally friendly because