Publications
Global Symposium on Gender and Fisheries: Seventh Asian Fisheries Forum
The proceedingsof the Global Symposium on Gender and Fisheries organized by the Seventh Asian Fisheries Forum are now available online at http://www.worldfish center.org/cms/list_article.aspx? catID=39&ddlID=350. The first chapter Changing Traditions: A Summary Report on the First Global Look at the Gender Dimensions of Fisheries by M.J. Williams, M.C. Nandeesha and P.S. Choo, provides an overview of the articles in the volume. They will be of interest to those engaging with gender and fisheries issues in Asia, and in other parts of the world, and can be downloaded as individual PDF files.
The article titled Women in Fish Border Trade: The Case of Fish Trade Between Cambodia and Thailand, by K. Kusakabe, P. Sereyvath, U. Suntornratana and N. Sriputinibondh, would, for example, interest those working on issues of women’s involvement in cross-border trade in West Africa. According to the abstract of the article, women engaged in fish trade between Cambodia and Thailand are considered informal traders and even smugglers. The study recommends that attention should be given to this category of traders, if regional trade is to benefit poor people living in the border areas. It challenges the notion that access to infrastructure, especially roads, will benefit border traders, and attempts to contribute to the missing link in the regional trade frameworkthe link between trade and natural resources management. There are several other interesting articles in this volume.
