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.
Ecosystem-based spatial management (EBSM) can provide a mechanism for a strategic and integrated plan-based approach to managing human activities in the marine environment. An EBSM approach was adopted in the...
This book is about the governance of marine protected areas (MPAs). In particular it is about two forms of governance – co-management (CM) and adaptive co-management (ACM) – which, we...
A collaborative effort of many partners, the Protected Planet Report 2012 reviews progress towards key elements of Target 11 and summarises the status and trends in global biodiversity protection for...
This booklet outlines the need and purpose of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve in West Bengal, India. ‘Sunderabans’ the largest delta on globe in the estuarine phase of the river Ganges...
The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 sets a number of targets including Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 which aims to conserve at least 17 % of terrestrial and inland water, and...
This report examines whether Philippine national policies and actions have been changed to implement World Parks Congress in Durban (2003), Convention on Biodiversity COP 7 (2004) and 3rd World Conservation...
The report is based on case studies drawn largely from the portfolio of projects financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the UN Development Programme (UNDP). An introductory section...
The need for effective governance of the marine protected areas (MPAs) in least developed countries (LDCs) is commensurate with the significant territorial stakes raised by their extensive maritime domain. Another...
This document presents case studies of the policy, governance and institutional issues of marine protected areas (MPAs) in Brazil, India, Palau and Senegal. It is the first of four in...
Many Pacific Island communities have traditionally used area and time-based restrictions to facilitate the recovery of marine resources. Although there is increasing recognition of the value of these management systems...