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Lagoon livelihoods: gender and shell money in Langalanga, Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
Gender shapes livelihoods through access to resources and the distribution of benefits from economic activities. To work effectively with local people, resource management and community development initiatives should ...
Conserving womangroves: Assessing the impacts of improved cooking stoves on resource management in Langalanga Lagoon, Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
Firewood harvesting is a major threat to mangrove ecosystems in Solomon Islands. Improved cooking stoves could reduce firewood use and thereby ease pressure on mangroves. We conducted a field-based experiment in Langalanga ...
Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture and Nutrition Activity: Environmental mitigation and monitoring plan
Type: Report
The five-year assistance activity, Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture and Nutrition Activity, was awarded by the USAID to the Grantee, International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), doing business ...
Gendered ownership of aquaculture resources: Insights from two villages in Bangladesh
Type: Brief
Ownership rights are crucial for increasing women’s decision-making power and empowerment outcomes, which in turn will impact household efficiency in agricultural productivity. In Bangladesh, however, there remains a large ...
Illuminating hidden harvests: The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development
Type: Brief
FAO, WorldFish and Duke University are working in partnership with experts globally to revisit and build on the Hidden Harvest study in 2012. Encompassing the pre-harvesting, harvesting and post-harvesting sectors of inland ...
Improving the livelihoods and wellbeing of women fish retailers: Success stories from the STREAMS project in Egypt
Type: Brochure
This booklet presents stories of women fish retailers in the governorates of Kafr El-Sheikh (Lower Egypt) and Fayoum (Upper Egypt). The livelihoods of these women retailers were supported by several market interventions ...
Too big to ignore: Gender and climate change adaptation in the Lake Chilwa Basin
Type: Book Chapter
Various studies have illustrated how gender differences could affect ecosystembased adaptation based on gender-based preferences and perceptions, social and economic roles and institutional arrangements. However, these ...
Annual report 2017
Type: Report
This annual report highlights some of our key achievements over the past year as we progress towards our impact targets. In Asia and Africa, our genetic improvement program took a major step forward with the use of genomic ...
Gender and marine protected areas: a case study of Danajon Bank, Philippines
Type: Journal Article
In this paper, we examine the role of gender in community-based management of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Central Philippines. MPAs are a common conservation and fisheries management tool in this area, but the ...
Postharvest fish losses and unequal gender relations: drivers of the social-ecological trap in the Barotse Floodplain fishery, Zambia
Type: Journal Article
The Barotse Floodplain fishery is an important source of livelihood for economically poor women and men in western Zambia. Current efforts by the Department of Fisheries and the traditional authority to manage the fishery ...