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Can community-based adaptation increase resilience
Type: Journal Article
A central claim of community-based adaptation (CBA) is that it increases resilience. Yet, the concept of resilience is treated inconsistently in CBA, obscuring discussion of the limitations and benefits of resilience ...
Understanding adaptive capacity and capacity to innovate in social-ecological systems: Applying a gender lens
Type: Journal Article
Development policy increasingly focuses on building capacities to respond to change (adaptation), and to drive change (innovation). Few studies, however, focus specifically on the social and gender differentiation of ...
Fish, trade and food security: Moving beyond 'availability' discourse in marine conservation
Type: Journal Article
The goal of food security increasingly serves as an objective and justification for marine conservation in the global south. In the marine conservation literature this potential link is seldom based upon detailed analysis ...
Sustaining healthy diets: The role of capture fisheries and aquaculture for improving nutrition in the post-2015 era
Type: Journal Article
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda makes achieving food security and ending malnutrition a global priority. Within this framework, the importance of fisheries in local and global food systems and its contribution ...
Potential for transformation
Type: Journal Article
In April 2016, at the Pyin Oo Lwin workshop, Myanmar's leading institutions, researchers and practitioners in fisheries and aquaculture came together with international experts to support the new government in finding the ...
Gender integration in livestock and fisheries value chains: emerging good practices from analysis to action
Type: Journal Article
It is widely recognized that women are significant actors in crop-livestock, pastoralist and fish systems. However, too little is known about agricultural development projects which deliberately work towards Gender in ...
Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong
Type: Journal Article
The worlds most biodiverse river basins (the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong) are experiencing an unprecedented boom in construction of hydropower dams. These projects address important energy needs, but advocates often overestimate ...
Contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to food security and poverty reduction: Assessing the current evidence
Type: Journal Article
This paper evaluates the existing evidence of how and to what extent capture fisheries and aquaculture contribute to food security and poverty reduction. In doing so the authors evaluate the quality and scientific rigor ...
Impact of the community-based fish culture system on expenditure and inequality: Evidence from Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
This study investigated the impact of a Community-based Fish Culture (CBFC) system on household expenditure and how expenditure inequality in the fish-producing communities has changed due to involvement in the CBFC system. ...
Do fish scales matter? Diversification and differentiation in seafood commodity chains
Type: Journal Article
Recent studies in the literature on fisheries trade have contrasted the challenges and opportunities associated with domestic and internationally oriented fish trade. We examine forms of domestic and international fish ...