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.
The film looks at the growing concern for the future of Lake Victoria Nile Perch Fisheries. The sustainability and the effect on people and biodiversity of the Lake is suffering...
The coastal zone of East Africa includes the coastal lowlands from Sudan to South Africa, the nearshore islands off the coasts of Tanzania and Mozambique , and the oceanic islands...
This paper reports on the FAO response to the tsunami disaster and discusses how ongoing reconstruction efforts can provide an opportunity to revisit and review fisheries policy frameworks. The paper...
Document summarizes the main findings of three studies. In the processing industries studied, the number of women exceeds the number of men and the ratio increases with the degree of...
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During the last 50 years, several different forms of fisheries governance have been tried and failed in the Cochin Estuary, Kerala, India. The latest shift has been from a community-based...
The effects of marine resource development, aggravated by the rise of population in some Pacific countries, are disturbing those elements on which life depends. Modern technology is making it possible...
The Chilean government has introduced a policy that gives formal property rights over defined areas of seabed to organized groups of artisanal fishers with the goal of achieving sustainable exploitation...
This is a report on the launch of a study report on Women’s Roles, Needs, and Aspirations in Community Fisheries Management in Cambodia. This new study aimed to: A) describe...