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Are fishers poor or vulnerable? Assessing economic vulnerability in small-scale fishing communities
Type: Journal Article
An index of economic vulnerability is developed and used with a more conventional measure of income poverty to explore vulnerability and chronic poverty in isolated rural communities. The method is applied to data from ...
A viability analysis for a bio-economic model
Type: Journal Article
This paper presents a simple dynamic model dealing with the management of a marine renewable resource. But instead of studying the ecological and economic interactions in terms of equilibrium or optimal control, we pay ...
Fish as the "bank in the water" - evidence from chronic-poor communities in Congo
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries in developing countries are often perceived as being a low-productivity and backward informal sector. As a result they are rarely considered in poverty reduction programmes and rural development ...
Social and economic impacts of agricultural productivity intensification: the case brush park fisheries in Lake Volta
Type: Journal Article
The intensification of agricultural productivity through technological innovation has often been reported to induce considerable social and economic transformation in the rural communities where those innovations are ...
Investing in African fisheries : building links to the millennium development goals
Type: Journal Article
This paper examines the direct and indirect links between fisheries and individual Millennium Development Goals and translates the findings into recommendations for action in support of improved investments in fisheries ...
Liberalization reform, "Neo-centralism", and black market: the political diseconomy of Lake Nasser fishery development
Type: Journal Article
Despite its relatively modest importance, and the current difficulties faced by the government in implementing liberalization in the rest of the country, the Egyptian government decided to embark on a reform of the Lake ...
When fishery rhymes with poverty: a first step beyond the old paradigm on poverty in small-scale fisheries
Type: Journal Article
In this paper, we first look retrospectively at the perceptions embraced by academics, international agencies and practitioners of the relation between fisheries and poverty in developing countries and we try to identify ...
Water, poverty and inland fisheries: lessons from Africa and Asia
Type: Journal Article
Relying on experience from West Africa and the Mekong Basin, the authors contend that small-scale inland fisheries are a critical element in the livelihoods of many farming households who live near water bodies in developing ...
Predicting the water requirement of river fisheries.
Type: Journal Article
This paper is arranged in two parts. The first summarizes technical issues surrounding such assessments, briefly reviews the water requirements of river fish and fisheries, and examines some of the ways for predicting these ...
Valuing Africa's inland fisheries: overview of current methodologies with an emphasis on livelihood analysis
Type: Journal Article
While Africa’s inland fisheries are widely recognized to be of great importance to local people, accurate and up-to-date information on their value is sparse and its absence is a serious constraint to the formulation of ...