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 evolution of a community-based marine conservation effort in the Bay Islands serves as a valuable example to all islands that face similarly conflicting economic and environmental pressures. Like many...
The main purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which CBPR and CBNRM strategies can be utilised in the sustainable exploitation of natural resources by rural communities....
While Tanzania’s system of designating terrestrial parks and protected areas has been historically exclusionary, recent conservation initiatives are acknowledging the need to involve local people in these programs and to...
Although their capacity for resistance and independent decision making have been quite limited, the coastal communities of Baja California have not passively accepted the marginal role in natural resource management,...
Although women constitute 50% of the total population of Bangladesh, only 18% are economically involved in the total labor force. They are involved in diversified work within their homesteads. However,...
The paper examines the interplay of gender, caste-religion, and household survival strategy formation among Christian and Muslim fisher folk in the south Indian state of Kerala, India.
This newsletter containing various papers on women in fisheries, is brought out for the International Conference on Women in Fisheries organized by the Indian Society of Fisheries Professionals, Mumbai in...
On account of the ‘‘legal transplant’’ of French civil law into traditional customary law in Madagascar, the traditional social code generally known as ‘‘Dina’’ has coexisted with the modern law...