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 women in India are not conspicuous in the formal industrial sector, their role in traditional coastal shrimp farming is quite significant. In recent years, shrimp farming has expanded fast,...
Seaweed farming in Fiji has become very popular because it requires low level of technology and investment and gets considerable government support. This report presents an overview of and assesses...
A field survey on socio-economic dimensions of seaweed farming was carried out on Wagina Island, Choiseul province in Solomon Islands. Given the geographical and socio-economic conditions, seaweed farming on Wagina...
After the implementation of community based marine protection areas in the south of Guam, this survey was undertaken to assess people’s perception on the success of the development of the...
After a clerical sanction prohibited them from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic fishers from a village on India’s southwestern coast took their church to court. They called...
This publication gives the research agenda of the programme ‘FEMMES’ financed by the 5th Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission. This has been done to raise the needs...
Recognising the potential of aquaculture in bringing techno-economic empowerment of rural women in coastal tracts of Orissa, the Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture (DRWA), Bhubaneswar, has taken up...
This book has reported the findings from a three year Danida funded project on the Role of Fish in Food and Nutrition Security in Developing Countries: Focus on Combating Micronutrient...
This paper begins by examining some of the theories on microfinance and its potential to bring about empowerment. Drawing on the case of the fishermen village Pudupattinam (Tamil Nadu, India),...
This report is the result of a two month research project initiated by the Danish Society for a Living Sea. The study focuses on the body of social science literature...