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.
In Urk, the well-known fishing village of the Netherlands, a woman talks of her twenty-six years as a worker in the fish processing industry.
In Urk, the well-known fishing village of the Netherlands, a woman talks of her twenty-six years as a worker in the fish processing industry.
This article is on sea plants and how they offer a promising option for women in coastal communities to develop small businesses
This article elaborates on the lack of recognition and support of women’s roles in fisheries in the Pacific Islands.
This article elaborates on the lack of recognition and support of women’s roles in fisheries in the Pacific Islands.
During a recent tour of France, Margaret Nakato, leader of the Katosi Women Fishing and Development Association (KWFDA) in Uganda, met consumers, Breton fishermen, and NGOs as well as Herbert...
This is a report of the fisher people’s human rights hearings in Western Cape, South Africa held in August 2003.
This is a report of the fisher people’s human rights hearings in Western Cape, South Africa held in August 2003.
A workshop titled ‘Room to Manoeuvre: Gender and Coping Strategies in the Fisheries Sector’ held in Cotonou, Benin in West Africa in December 2003, explored the coping strategies being adopted...
This article is about the women in the Bay of Maputo in Mozambique, Africa, who are at the heart of the local fisheries economy. Despite their vital economic role, they...