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 publication is part of the research studies undertaken by the Sectoral Activities Programme of the ILO. The working paper focuses on the risks and dangers in small-scale and artisanal...
This book is one of the first attempts to examine the issue of poverty in small-scale fisheries from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It represents a state-of-the-art collation and synthesis of the...
Japanese coastal fishermen have legally-guaranteed equitable access to and “ownership” of the living aquatic resources of coastal waters, through an elaborate fisheries rights system. In Japan no conceptual distinction exists...
The focus of this book is on social and cultural factors in small-scale fisheries development. An important concept underlying many investigations n fisheries social science is the concept of cultural...
The Participatory and Integrated Policy (PIP) is a structured approach to research, dialogue, decision-making, institutional reform and development-resource allocation, which promotes greater involvement of all stakeholders in the policy process...
The small-scale fisheries sector is the oldest and most important part of the marine fisheries economy of the world. Being a relative term, small-scale operations exist in most maritime nations....
The present paper pursues several objectives: to understand the concrete processes and modalities of capitalist penetration into the Third-World fisheries; to assess the comparative role and strategies of the State...
This book consists of a number of papers based on field studies carried out for a period of about 15 years starting from the mid 1980s in the small-scale fisheries...
Conflicts over the access to and use of natural resources have become common throughout the world. Such strife is often difficult to resolve as embraces a plethora of issues and...
This book traces the history of the fishworker movement in Kerala. It looks at the circumstances that led to the emergence of the KSMTF, a fishworker organisation, among traditional fishworkers...