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.
Small-scale fisheries development is a complex process. It involves consideration of everything from the availability of the resource to consumer acceptance of the product. This volume reflects this complexity in...
he purpose of this report is to document the recent developments in boat-building technology which started in 1981 when the Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT) decided to devote most of...
The global fishing crisis has been described as the world’s worse ecological disaster. Official sources describe the world’s main fishing grounds as being fished at or above their limits: 70...
This study was carried out in 1989 to monitor the health of the small scale fisheries sector with particular reference to the effect of motorisation in Kerala, India. This report...
This Reader is an attempt to give an overall and interdisciplinary view of the research in different fields of the social sciences undertaken by several Brazilian universities aiming to analyse...
Human dependence on marine and coastal resources is increasing. Today, small-scale fisheries employ 50 of the world’s 51 million fishers, practically all of whom are from developing countries. And together,...
At the twenty-sixth session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries, FAO was requested to identify how trade in fish and fish products could further benefit small-scale fisheries and generate additional...
The objectives of this Technical Paper are to highlight the contribution that inland and coastal small-scale fisheries can make to poverty alleviation and food security and to make practical suggestions...
The purpose of this handbook is to summarize experience gained over recent years in fishery statistical development by the Fishery Information, Data and Statistics Unit (FIDI) of FAO, and provide...
The aim of this policy brief is to: Encourage policy-makers to address gender issues in fisheries; Present experiences dealing with gender issues in fisheries to guide the development of gender...