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 report puts gender equality in natural resource management on the circumpolar agenda as part of the work of the Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council. In 2002,...
Women in Nigeria play a key and vital role in the Fisheries value chain in Nigeria especially when we look at their involvement in the marine, artisanal and Aquaculture sub-sector...
While small-scale [artisanal] marine fisheries in many developing countries is “everybody’s business” , a strong gendered division of labour sees production concentrated in the hands of male fishermen – while...
In a number of low-income countries the fisheries sector has been shown to be instrumental in meeting key development goals, specifically in combating malnutrition, but the crucial contribution of women...
Chilika is the largest lagoon along the east coast of India, and one of the main sources of capture fisheries of Orissa and supports food and livelihood security to more...
The study was conducted on the landing sites of the major water bodies including Lake Victoria, Kyoga, Edward and George in Uganda. The study used an ILO rapid assessment methodology...
Two workshops were conducted to redress the shortfall of available information on indigenous people and local communities and their climate change adaptation and mitigation. This second workshop focused on mitigation...
The Workshop on Child Labour in Fisheries and Aquaculture was organized by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in cooperation with International Labour Organization (ILO) to generate...
The involvement of fisher communities in ensuring the healthy development and exploitation of fishery resources is a prerequisite for achieving sustainable fisheries. With the fisher communities playing vital role in...
This is a detailed note about forced labour in India, tracing the phenomenon historically. The author concludes that forced or bonded labour is part of the wider agrarian problem in...