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.
Expands on a project, entitled The Women in Fisheries Support Project (WIFSP) in Papua New Guinea, a project targeting women and representing the incorporation of food security and income generating...
This document expands on the role of women in India where their potential has often been overlooked and analyses the Bay of Bengal Project (BOBP) experience and the positive results...
In most societies, as in India, small-scale fishing and fish farming households are considered to be one of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. Microfinance programmes are seen as a...
This is a book of guidelines for NGOs and development agencies that work with artisanal fishing communities, particularly in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. It provides descriptive overviews of post-harvest...
In Iceland we find great commitment to market solutions in the fishery as exemplified by the individually transferable quota system (ITQ). This management system, along with the state’s diminishing commitment...
The paper examines the ways in which fishing families in Lofoten, Norway, responded to the cod crisis occurring at the end of the 1980s and to the changes in the...
In Iceland we find great commitment to market solutions in the fishery as exemplified by the individually transferable quota system (ITQ). This management system, along with the state’s diminishing commitment...
The article calls for more awareness on the impact of the North Atlantic fisheries crisis on women. It points to the need to develop, expand and refine a critical and...
The article calls for more awareness on the impact of the North Atlantic fisheries crisis on women. It points to the need to develop, expand and refine a critical and...
In response to the current fisheries crisis, Nova Scotian coastal fishing dependent households are scrambling to get by. In the past, these households relied on long-term financial planning strategies, but...