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.
Conditions of work of women workers in Pakistan’s warrahs (sheds for processing fish), leave much to be desired, highlighting problems in the implementation of existing labour laws.
This article outlines the important roles that women in fishing communities in Pakistan play and how modernization of the fisheries sector has led to their increasing marginalization.
People in Buyat Bay, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, have been affected by the mining operations of PT. Newmont Minahasa Raya, a subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation, based in Denver, Colorado, USA....
People in Buyat Bay, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, have been affected by the mining operations of PT. Newmont Minahasa Raya, a subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation, based in Denver, Colorado, USA....
Fishing communities of Gorai, Culvem and Manori in Mumbai, India, have been affected by the country’s first and largest amusement park, Essel World. Not only have the livelihoods of these...
The article marks the gradual but firm progress in Peru’s artisanal fishing industry where women are now included in the social organizations of artisanal fishworkers.
The article marks the gradual but firm progress in Peru’s artisanal fishing industry where women are now included in the social organizations of artisanal fishworkers.
Fishing communities settled along the coast of Chennai, a metropolitan city on India’s south-eastern coast, are being threatened with relocation in the name of beach beautification. This article is based...
The National Campaign on Labour Rights (NCLR), India—a network of trade unions and other support groups—has initiated a campaign to highlight the exploitative conditions of work faced by women workers...
This Statement was adopted at the Asian Regional Consultation on Women in Fisheries, held in Medan, Indonesia, from 11 to 14 August 2004.