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.
Issues and complexities arising when the fisheries and marine tourism sectors have stakes in an institution governing the coral reefs ecosystem called awig-awig are discussed, awig-awig is a colloquialism meaning...
This paper is to explain a case of change of property right regime of coral reef management: from an open access to state property and then to local governance, a...
This thesis examines the effectiveness of the co-management approach in the fishery management system of Uganda with specific case reference to the implementation of the Beach Management Units (BMU), an...
The marine-conservation and reef fisheries–management program that exists today in the Philippines had humble beginnings in the 1970s at Sumilon and Apo islands. These islands have produced some of the...
An assessment from the INFORM Human Rights Documentation Centre, Colombo, Sri Lanka, on how human rights issues — structural, health, gender, housing — have been tackled in Sri Lanka in...
Rebuilding Lives, Reviving Communities After the Tsunami: 9 Month Progress Report of the Save Andaman Network, January-September 2005 includes activities implemented, lessons learned, provincial updates, a financial report, and lists...
Summary report on main findings of Government of Maldives and United Nations Post-Tsunami lessons learned and best practices workshop
The Boxing Day tsunami had a greater impact on UK public consciousness than any other modern natural disaster. Thousands of Europeans were among those who died on 26 December 2004....