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 is a collection of eighteen papers presented during the Global Symposium on Gender and Fisheries, Seventh Asian Fisheries Forum, 1-2 December 2004, in Penang Malaysia. Drawing on work undertaken...
This paper was presented at the International Workshop on Globalization, Gender and the Fisheries, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, in May 2000. It is based on research carried out by...
This essay is based on the field enquires of the author in Kiribati, Maldives and Southwest India. The author points out that the greater role that Kiribati fisherwomen have in...
This book is about a special project of the Newfoundland and Labrador Women’s Fishnet, formed in 1994, to make visible the concerns of women in the fisheries sector to decision-makers...
This paper examines the 1990s fisheries crisis in Newfoundland and Labrador from the point of view of a feminist researcher, activist and teacher involved in that crisis. The formation and...
This paper examines the 1990s fisheries crisis in Newfoundland and Labrador from the point of view of a feminist researcher, activist and teacher involved in that crisis. The formation and...
This Dossier is devoted to women in fisheries in India and is an acknowledgement of the role women have played in sustaining coastal communities and the effort they have taken...
This dossier puts together documents related to a unique public hearing held at Cochin, India in June 1995, on the problems faced by women workers in India’s fish processing industry....
This statement by 60 women survivors of the tsunami and activists from India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia, brings to attention the fact that marginalization, discrimination and exclusion of...
Women involved in artisanal fishing are considered as key actors in the socio-economic development of West African countries. Yet, the importance of their contribution is not well known. Thus, in...