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 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...
In this report, each sector is analysed with reference to relevant background issues at state and national levels, key issues and concerns are identified and current and potential responses at...
For decades disaster management in India remained an issue of providing relief and rehabilitation assistance to people affected by natural disasters. Successive disasters and global movements for disaster reduction since...
This paper in Part I examines the genesis of Climate Change which has been referred to as the defining human development issue of our generation. In Part II of the...
The Sustainable Coastal Communities and Ecosystems (SUCCESS) Program, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Coastal Resources Center (CRC) in partnership with the...
This study aims to survey the current level and form of State recognition of customary laws and institutions. The main focus of this paper is an analysis of the recognition...
This book is one of the main contributions of the Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to the international discussions on...
This paper highlights the co-management of an MPA in Trao Reef locally managed marine reserve, which was established in 2001 to protect and rehabilitate fisheries resources in general and the...
Natural resources of all kinds have been overexploited by user groups who cannot or will not develop rules to constrain their own exploitive efforts. One notable exception is the Maine...