The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has just released the latest editions of two of its popular fisheries publications SAMUDRA Report, its triannual journal on fisheries, communities and livelihoods, and Yemaya, its newsletter on gender and fisheries.
SAMUDRA Report No. 67, dated April 2013, features articles from Asia, Africa, and Europe, as well as a critique of Conservation International’s Ocean Health
Index’, and an analysis of the Philippines government proposal for a 40-m
no-dwelling zone in the wake of Typhoon Yolanda.
The issue also features an article on the women seaweed collectors of the Gulf of Mannar in the south Indian State of Tamil Nadu as well as one on the working conditions of fishworkers on board distant-water fishing vessels in Taiwan.
http://www.icsf.net/en/samudra/article/EN/67.html?limitstart=0
The latest edition of Yemaya, ICSF’s newsletter on gender and fisheries, No. 45, dated December 2013, focuses on the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) of FAO.
The latest issue of Yemaya features a profile of a 52-year-old Indian woman seaweed colector, as well as an interview with a 35-year-old dry-fish worker from Kutubdia Para, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
The ever-popular cartoon series, Yemaya Mama, completes the latest edition of Yemaya.
Yemaya No. 45 can be accessed at http://www.icsf.net/en/yemaya/article/EN/44.html?limitstart=0
ICSF is an international NGO that works towards the establishment of equitable, gender-just,self-reliant and sustainable fisheries, particularly in the small-scale, artisanal sector.
For more, please visit www.icsf.net
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