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.
In the present report, submitted to the Human Rights Council in accordance with Council resolution 13/4, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food discusses the threats to women’s right...
Coastal communities in Southeast Asia have a long history of fishing for sea cucumbers. This study describes the sea cucumber fishery in Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia and examines the size and...
The San Crisanto Foundation focuses on mangrove restoration and flood prevention in a region that consistently faces heavy rainfall and flooding. Since the Foundation’s establishment, over 11,300 metres of canals...
The Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin has been carrying out research in developing appropriate technologies, building capacities and assessing impacts of interventions for the benefit of the fisheries sector,...
The ICSF Belgium Office and Aktea, the European Network of Women’s Organizations in Fisheries and Aquaculture, hosted a one-day workshop to prepare for ICSF’s international Women in Fisheries workshop, which...
Gender mainstreaming is a policy-driven process of integrating gender concerns into development structures and practices. Particular ways of thinking (‘myths’) underpin gender mainstreaming and this will be demonstrated in community...
One of the two major outputs of the BOBLME Project is to produce an agreed Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) that identifies and prioritizes the major transboundary environmental concerns in the...
The presentation talks about gender participation in fisheries, how to make woman be seen and heard and why women should be considered in mitigation, adaptation or coping mechanisms
This women’s cooperative is providing livelihood options for the women and men of the island of Isabela in the Galápagos Islands. This small-scale enterprise is simultaneously decreasing pressures on overexploited...
This study examines the relationship between Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and marine and coastal resource management in the Western Indian Ocean Region. It explores what roles CBOs play in relation to...