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 paper considers this debate by exploring the conditions under which rural communities in SouthernThailand implemented and enforced rules of restricted access in coastal fishing. Particular emphasis is placed on...
A collaborative on-line newsletter on Oregon coastal issues by Oregon Sea Grant and the Women’s Coalition for Pacific Fisheries. The mission of Heads Up! is to strengthen the connection between...
USAID Ways to reduce losses from various kinds of disasters through preparedness and prevention.
This report, prepared by the Institute of Policy Studies, Colombo. Sri Lanka, presents and analyses the views of tsunami survivors in six affected Districts of Sri Lanka on rebuilding, relocation...
This book synthesizes results from a 7-year program of applied research on community-based approaches to natural resource management in Asia. The 11 case studies featured illustrate how local innovations in...
This paper reviews some major challenges experienced following a shift in the management of fisheries resources in Malawi from centralised system to co-management in early 1990s. While the policy and...
The Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve is situated in North Western Brazil, in the upper reaches of the Amazon, at the confluence of the Solimões and Japurá Rivers. It is located...
Sawen is a traditional resource management institution that originally integrated the management of forests, the sea and farmland using cognitive aspects (local knowledge and resource management principles), regulatory aspects (codes...
Community fishery rights are use rights (the right to take part in fishing) and/or management rights (the right to be involved in managing the fishery) implemented at a local, community...
Over the past decade, the resource base supporting fishing communities in coastal and inland Vietnam has been depleted or is in a state of serious decline to the point where...