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.
Exposed to the most violent natural hazards, fishermen are constantly at risk from drowning and their bodies never being recovered. This article is a write up of a discussion in...
The study of the women in the fisheries industrial system (FIS) of the selected countries, Indonesia, Mexico and Senegal, intends to provide a basis for forming complete measures of action....
This is a brief note on the output from the Ghana Poverty project. It is designed to inform policy-makers, planners and implementers about key issues concerning the livelihood of poor...
This dossier draws reports from seven countries namely Philippines, Thailand, India, Senegal, Canada, France and Spain to arrive at an understanding of the issue of gender in fisheries. In the...
This dossier presents details on women’s involvement in fisheries in each of the nine maritime States of India namely Gujarat, Maharastra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andra Pradesh and West...
The book presents the guidelines into four subdivision: Co-management Using Group User Rights for Small-scale Fisheries; Use of Indicators for the Sustainable Development and Management of Capture Fisheries; Fishery Statistics...
This paper documents a changing CPR management institution and the reactions of the local fishingsociety to those changes.The paper starts with adescription of the Padu system as it operates at...
This paper documents a changing CPR management institution and the reactions of the local fishingsociety to those changes.The paper starts with adescription of the Padu system as it operates at...