ICSF Resources
Fisheries in Sub-Saharan Africa
An interactive CD produced by ICSF on fisheries in West Africa
ICSF has just brought out an interactive CD, Fisheries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This provides exhaustive information on socioeconomic factors, fisheries resources, fishing communities and fishworkers, fish processing and trade, regional trade arrangements, regional fishery bodies, legislation pertaining to fisheries, and fishery agreements for 25 countries in the region. The CD contains over 400 documents formatted as PDF, over 250 still images and approximately 10 minutes of video clips, all classified under different heads. The statistical information is provided in the form of interactive maps, graphs and a database (in both printable and saveable format). The CD also contains ICSF reports about workshops in the region, as well as a report of a study on artisanal fish processing and trade in West Africa. Women dominate the fish processing and trading activities in several West African countries. The creativity and dynamism of women in this sector is well known. All these aspects, and more, are captured on the CD. For more details on the CD, please contact icsf@vsnl.com.
Like birds uncaged
A video film produced by ICSF focuses on women in Indian fisheries
This 18-minute film explores the role of women fishworkers in selected regions of India. It also explores some of the problems they face in their work and the initiatives they have taken to deal with this. Many of the issues are drawn out through an interview with a woman fish vendor in Kerala, the southernmost state on India’s west coast. For more details contact icsf@vsnl.com
Conversations
In the form of a conversation between three supporters of fishworker movements from different parts of the world, this book from ICSF is going to press.
This work is based on a trialogue that took place among three socially and politically committed individuals in the winter of October 1999. The three individualsall members of ICSFare Aliou Sall from Senegal, Nalini Nayak from India and Michael Belliveau from Canada. All of them have been involved in supporting the fishworker movements in their respective countries. Though focused on the specific milieu of fisheries, Conversations deals with themes that are timelesspower, discipline, intervention, organization, motivation, will. Part oral history, part polemic, part ideology, part philosophy, the trialogue takes on the nature of a freewheeling disquisition in search of understanding. Part of the conversation focuses on women in the fisheries sector, in an attempt to arrive at a shared understanding on this issue. For more details about this book, please contact icsf@vsnl.com
