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 Sundarbans is the ultimate land of the tiger, a swamp forest so dense and well protected by nature that even centuries of determined effort by humans has failed to...
Originally prepared as a policy brief, this submission describes the case or conserving marine and coastal biodiversity with a status report on the trends in marine and coastal biodiversity, the...
Information generated from the research carried out on sea turtles of Orissa has been published in several peer-reviewed national and international journals. Many other findings are available only as grey...
Over recent decades, biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction have both become international societal and political goals. There is recognition of the links between these two goals both within the Convention...
This article compares and contrasts the concepts of fisheries refugia and marine protected areas. Specifically, the potential benefits to fisheries associated with the use of both management tools in the...
A Marine Protected Area (MPA) was established in Cu Lao Cham in central Vietnam in 2005 with the main objectives of conserving the marine biodiversity; protecting and effectively exploiting the...
The Southern Ocean: Its remoteness has not spared this sea of serious impacts. Accelerating climate change is already having profound effects; it has altered the extent of the winter sea...
Indigenous conservation territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities– ICCA for short– are the subject of an IUCN/CEESP Briefing Note launched at CBD SBSTTA in May 2010....
The use of marine protected areas (MPAs) in South Africa should be revised in the light of growing problems related to the over-use of marine resources. No consistent policy has...
Recent studies call for the scaling-up and networking of local marine reserves for ecological effectiveness and resilience. Currently, the Pacific islands are witnessing an explosion in the number of community-based...