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.
This study examines traditional fisheries management through a case in which local communities, from a basis of customary, ‘common property’ control over the sea and its resources, handle a multitude...
Te objective of ‘The Gender Factor in Community Development and Resource Management Project’ of which this study is a part, is to heighten awareness of the critical roles women play...
This report is an attempt to capture in print the highlights of the dynamic exchange of ideas among the participants and the resulting wealth of knowledge from these interactions at...
This workshop saw community based volunteers/ development workers as the primary participants and speakers. The objectives were to identify key factors in the success and failure of community based livelihood...
The objective of the workshop was to discuss lessons learned from the local and community ICZM projects in Eastern Africa as a critical foundation on which to build successful new...
This book represents the final output of a policy study that was initiated in 2002 under the auspices of an agreement between the Support unit of International Fisheries and Aquatic...
This volume is the help partners further enhance their theory and practice of community based coastal resources management through exchanges of ideas and lessons from the field. The case studies...
The CBCRM festival brings together practitioners and advocates from various countries including the Philippines to celebrate and reflect on the gains and challenges of the CBCRM movement. The festival’s sub-themes...
The WHAT has defined governance as “the framework of social and economic systems and legal and political structures through which humanity manages itself”. The reports in this volume are derived...
During the last two decades, policy makers, planners and scholars have needed to revisit and reconsider the important role of relevant stakeholders, particularly marginalized groups in local communities, in natural...