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.
Current global fisheries production of 160million tons is rising as a result of increases in aquaculture production. A number of climate-related threats to both capture fisheries and aquaculture are identified,...
The main purpose of this short guide is to help bridging the gap between science and policy and to increase public awareness about the urgency of action to combat climate...
This paper provides a guide to policy makers and fisheries managers about climate adaptation in marine capture fisheries. It stresses that any policy should be flexible and be able to...
There is increasing concern over the consequences of global warming for the food security and livelihoods of the world’s 36 million fisherfolk and the nearly 1.5 billion consumers who rely...
This paper traces the historical legal arguments on climate change and human rights, and highlights the Canadian government position on the same. It raises questions on how human rights of...
This paper analyzes the meaning of rising sea-levels among the Murik, who live on the coast in the delta of the Sepik river in Papua New Guinea (PNG), where in...
The warm phase of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is characterized in Peru by positive sea surface temperatures and negative sea level pressure anomalies. Biotic responses to this event range...
This report discusses how observed and projected impacts of climate change have implications for the enjoyment of human rights and for the obligations of States under international human rights law....
This short Paper lays out some of the legal questions that are implicated in the emerging debate on climate change and human rights and suggests ways in which international human...