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.
Although their existence is as old and widespread as human civilisation itself, ICCAs have emerged only recently as a major phenomenon in formal conservation circles. International policies and programmes, notably...
Anlong Raing is a floating village within the inundated forest of the Tonle Sap Great Lake. The village is right in natural resources and the biodiversity enables flora and fauna...
The Workshop, Institutional Frameworks for Community-based Coastal Resources Management and Marine Conservation in the Eastern Visayas Region had the following objectives: Review the current situation in the Eastern Visayas (Region...
This report highlights the successes of the GEF Small Grants Programme in the international waters focal area. Special emphasis has been placed on the global benefits provided by international waters...
This booklet aims to summarize the legal knowledge and experiences built up and challenges faced during the five years of second phase of the Community Based Fisheries Management Project (CBFM-2)...
Boeung Chunlen reservoir is located in Boeung Chunlen village, approximately 30 km from Pnom Penh. Five villages surround the reservoir forming the community fisheries. The different groups involved at the...
This document is the 4th in a series of assessments under the title ‘10 messages for 2010’ and focuses on marine ecosystems. The key messages from this document follow. Marine...
The Swedish International Biodiversity Programme (SwedBio) was initiated in late 2002 by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Its work is organised into the following main components: Integration of...
This article examines social conditions in a bay experiencing population growth, gear conflict, overfishing, and general resource decline. Sample surveys of fishing households carried out in 1980 and 1993 in...
This study is based on information collected from elderly fishermen and non fishermen in the Pichavaram Mangrove forest located in the coastal districts of Cuddalore and Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu,...