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.
The book describes the vital inputs that an extended social and economic network gives in fishing, for women and men. Even though women increasingly own canoes, where previously only men...
This web dossier compiles selected articles from Yemaya, the gender and fisheries newsletter from ICSF initiated in 1999. These articles are organized by region—Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, Pacific Islands...
Social science studies of fishing communities have tended to be highly focused on male activities and to regard women’s work as domestic or as merely supplemental to that of men....
In Newfoundland the fishery was the only occupational option for most women in fishing communities and they have had little if any experience in career planning. Women knew what they...
Within India, Kerala, with a total terrestrial area of 38,000 sq km and a coastal line of 590 km, is a major exporter of fish and fish products. More than...
Within India, Kerala, with a total terrestrial area of 38,000 sq km and a coastal line of 590 km, is a major exporter of fish and fish products. More than...
While a minority of people in the world today enjoys the fruits of advanced technology and the globalization phenomenon, the majority find themselves up against a wall. This is particularly...
This paper discusses the impact of globalization and the expansion of world wide markets on fisheries. Technological change and the international search for new markets has paved the way to...
This dossier presents the report of the concluding workshop of the first phase of the Women in Fisheries programme of ICSF held in Rufisque, Senegal, in June1996. This workshop analyzed...
This book talks about the way women’s lives and gender relations within the world’s fisheries are being shaped by globalization. It is divided into six sections and brings together contributions...