Eighth International Conference on Food Studies

Abstract

Food security has been one of the major problems that BRICS is facing in the age of climate change. Economic, strategic and political imperative that some members of BRICS are sharing directly or indirectly through the Indian Ocean need academic interrogation. Before the formation of BRICS, Russia, India, China and South Africa are very active participants in the politics and strategic arrangements of the third largest ocean (Indian Ocean) in the global system. The implications of the blue economy in the 21st century taken into account of the impact of climate change and how the same is influencing life under water with direct negative impact on food security will be the focus of this paper. Employing interdependence theory of liberal school, it will be concluded that international regimes such as BRICS and Indian Ocean Rims Association (IORA) need to come to term on how to exploit the Indian Ocean resources in a sustainable manner. Doing this will save the water from overfishing by the technologically advanced states; this approach will also check the ongoing plastic dumping in the ocean, an action that is threatening livelihood of littoral member states in the age of climate variability.