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 Supporting Resources Collection (SRC) forms one part of the Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Climate Change. It complements the Overview Report, which highlights the need to put people...
Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions, rather than on the significant...
Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move...
This issue of Joto Afrika provides case studies of local knowledge in action across Africa, and success stories from research to showcase how gender analysis and representation are involved in...
This presentation deals with women led and media centred action against filling up mangrove areas and land grabbers. Results achieved so far include stopping cutting of mangroves along the coast...
This Learning Companion aims to provide Oxfam programme staff with the basis for incorporating gender analysis and women’s rights into Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) programming....
This is a case study of a coastal fisheries project (EU Funded) targeting 3 main areas‐1. resource stock status, 2.users status‐gender consideration 3. Managing and planning fisheries. The focus is...
This paper is the third of a series of AIXG papers on the role that national policy frameworks of various sectors play in adaptation to climate change. The aim of...
This paper provides an assessment of broad trends in progress on assessment and implementation of adaptation to climate change in “developed countries”, defined here as being Member states of the...
As the international community mobilizes in response to global climatic changes, climate funds must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Women and...