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 summarizes various integrated methodological approaches for studying Customary Management for the purpose of designing hybrid CM-Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) systems in Oceania. Using marine conservation in the Western Solomon...
This is one of three volumes reporting the three year capacity building programme located within Oxfam GB’s Community Based Coastal Resource Management Programme in 1996. The workshop that the resource...
Actions of low income communities that depend on natural resources for their daily livelihoods indicate that they are more caring and concerned about the nurturing of common resources found in...
The study aims to understand the evolution of the community governance structures and their legal systems in the context of the features of the natural ecosystem that surrounds them. The...
Fish resource is under threat of getting depleted if its management is not taken care of. The indication towards the same is apparent through the decline in productivity seen throughout...
To understand the processes of institutional evolution, the author has examined a few notable changes that have occurred with regard to an important informal institution called Kadakkodi, that prevails among...
This study has been carried out with the main objective of documenting the community initiatives in Goa and Kerala and based on the lessons learnt in these cases, chalk out...
The paper discusses the changes brought about by the New Order Regime in the community’s knowledge and access to natural resources. With emphasis on development, marine and coastal habitats were...
This handbook is a field guide to community based management focused on fisheries, such as those of the Northwest Atlantic, that are already highly regulated by governmental authorities, with licencing...
Traditional, local sea tenure arrangements or local systems for managing marine resource use have not been widely documented for Java, and the apparent absence of such institutions has often been...