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Fishing for a future : women in community based fisheries management
Type: Brochure
This is the story of women in the Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) project in Bangladesh. It is the story of many women, who through CBFM, have improved and will continue to improve the livelihood of their family. ...
Women in fisheries in the European Union
Type: Conference Paper
Women in Europe were known to have participated actively in the fishing sector since the 19th Century. Statistics collected from the European Union showed that women participate actively in fish processing activities, ...
Human rights approaches to governing fisheries (Editorial)
Type: Journal Article
Human rights are about more than political and civil rights, they also include a bundle of “economic, social and cultural rights” which include rights to food, water, housing, and decent work, and the rights of children, ...
Women in fisheries: pointers for development
Type: Conference Paper
This paper provides a short guide to what each paper in the proceedings contains, the approach it takes and, across all papers, the main messages for human development. It concluded by summarizing all the messages into ...
From women in fisheries to gender and fisheries
Type: Conference Paper
This paper traces the sequence of events leading to the involvement of the Asian Fisheries Society and ICLARM The World Fish Center, in the Women in Fisheries program and to the move towards Gender and Fisheries initiatives. ...
Environmental rights as a matter of survival
Type: Journal Article
When Ning Savat laid down his arms at the end of Cambodia’s civil war, he returned to what he hoped would be a simple, peaceful life as a fisherman. What he did not know was that he was stepping into one of the country’s ...
Changing traditions: first global look at the gender dimensions of fisheries
Type: Journal Article
The Asian Fisheries Society and the WorldFish Center conducted the first ever Global Symposium on Gender and Fisheries in Penang, Malaysia, from 30 November to 4 December 2004. The two-day Symposium, held in conjunction ...
Increasing women's participation in community based management in Solomon Islands
Type: Poster
Poster on increasing women's role in fishery management in Solomon Islands
Building coalitions, creating change: An agenda for gender transformative research in agricultural development
Type: Working Paper
The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) has developed its Gender Research in Development Strategy centered on a transformative approach. Translating this strategy into actual research and development ...
Small-scale fisheries through the wellbeing lens
Type: Journal Article
Despite longstanding recognition that small-scale fisheries make multiple contributions to economies, societies and cultures, assessing these contributions and incorporating them into policy and decision-making has suffered ...