Get an annotated online bibliography on small-scale fisheries and fishing communities. Resources are classified under eight themes: Right to Resources, Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture, Disasters and Climate Change, Decent Work, Fisheries Trade, Aquaculture, Biodiversity and SSF Guidelines
Women engage in a wide range of activities in fisheries, including paid and unpaid work and liaison with institutions. In several countries, women dominate inland fishing and aquaculture. Their play multiple roles – in seafood processing plants, as caregivers in the family, as the builders of social networks and community.
Gender issues focus not on women only but on their relationship with men, on their roles, rights and responsibilities. They acknowledge that these vary within and between cultures as well as by class, race, ethnicity, age and marital status.
The 2014 SSF Guidelines are based on the principle of gender equality and equity. They integrate gender issues into all small-scale fisheries development strategies.
The paper is mainly based on the experience with the Joint Forest Management (JFM) approach in India over the past decade, which is perhaps the most significant (and most well...
The objective of this document is to contribute towards creating a network of people and organizations working on CBC by providing a source of academic, practical and legal information for...
A workshop was organised in March 2004 to draw lessons in community participation in the governance of coastal resources and to identify options to improve current practice. The workshop went...
Nations across the globe are now committed to minimize the effects of natural disasters on communities with the ultimate goal of keeping hazards from becoming disasters. There is a gradual...
This resource book (Volume 1) puts together a rich exchange and sharing of lessons from implementing fisheries management. The first chapter is on defining and situating fisheries management from a...
The focus of this book is on the un-sustainability of the system that economists, in the name of science, have foisted upon society. Corporations and the economists who act as...
Some of the social and cultural aspects of marine fishing communities, as they emerge in the course of the pursuit for food and livelihood, are the subjects of this paper....
The FAO/UN with the financial assistance of the American Red Cross implemented a fisheries and aquaculture project in Aceh province of Indonesia between 2007 and 2010. The focus of this...
The indigenous people of Sabah have a rich oral tradition on knowledge systems related to all aspects of community life. Adat (custom) passed on from generation to generation provides guidelines...
In many events of Conservation related organizations, the concept and practice of “governance” were recognized as centrally important. “Governance” is recognised as having a major influence on the achievement of...