Browsing Resilient small-scale fisheries by Author "Béné, C."
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Analysis of power in fisheries co-management: experiences from Malawi
(2011)Type: Journal ArticleIn this article we analyze co-management arrangements in Malawi through the lenses of the concept of power. We focus the analysis at the local level where most of the more important actors operate. These include the fishing ... -
Are fishers poor or vulnerable? Assessing economic vulnerability in small-scale fishing communities
(2009)Type: Journal ArticleAn 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 ... -
Diagnosis and management of small-scale fisheries in developing countries
(2007)Type: Journal ArticleSmall-scale fisheries (SSF) make important but undervalued contributions to the economies of some of the world’s poorest countries. They also provide much of the animal protein needed by societies in which food security ... -
Diagnostic study of the Volta Basin fisheries: Part 1 overview of the fisheries resources
(2007)Type: ReportThe Basin Focal Project for the Volta (BFP-Volta) is a research project funded by the Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF). Its aim is to provide an in-depth analysis of the basin through three main thematic issues: ... -
Diagnostic study of the Volta Basin fisheries: Part 2 Livelihoods and poverty analysis, current trends and projections
(2007)Type: ReportThe Basin Focal Project for the Volta (BFP-Volta) is a research project funded by the Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF). Its aim is to provide an in-depth analysis of issues related to water in the Volta Basin ... -
Ecoviability for ecosystem-based fisheries management
(2017)Type: Journal ArticleReconciling food security, economic development and biodiversity conservation is a key challenge, especially in the face of the demographic transition characterizing many countries in the world. Fisheries and marine ... -
Fisheries and the millennium development goals : solutions for Africa
(2005)Type: BriefAfrica, and in particular sub-Saharan Africa, stands out as facing tremendous difficulties in achieving even modest progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Today, over 46% of Africans live in absolute ... -
Food security and poverty alleviation through improved valuation and governance of river fisheries in Africa
(2009)Type: ReportThe project aims to sustain and improve the livelihoods of the rural poor who depend on fisheries for their employment, income and food security along the rivers of the Lake Chad and Zambezi basins. Its purpose is to ... -
Food security versus environment conservation: A case study of Solomon Islands' small-scale fisheries
(2013)Type: Journal ArticleThe sustainable management of small-scale fisheries in coral reef ecosystems constitutes a difficult objective not least because these fisheries usually face several worsening pressures, including demographic growth and ... -
From participation to governance : a critical review of the concepts of governance, co-management and participation, and their implementation in small-scale inland fisheries in developing countries
(2006)Type: Working PaperThis report reviews the role, nature and mechanisms of governance in inland fisheries. We do so by reviewing first the wider issues of governance, participation and co-management in natural resource management, and then ... -
Governance and decentralization reforms in small-scale fisheries: an African perspective
(2009)Type: Book ChapterRelying on a framework that highlights different dimensions of ‘decentralization’, this paper reviews fisheries co-management programmes as they have been implemented over the last 20 years in sub-Saharan Africa. It shows ... -
Inland capture fisheries
(2010)Type: Journal ArticleThe reported annual yield from inland capture fisheries in 2008 was over 10 million tonnes, although real catches are probably considerably higher than this. Inland fisheries are extremely complex, and in many cases poorly ... -
Investing in African fisheries : building links to the millennium development goals
(2007)Type: Journal ArticleThis 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 ... -
Is resilience socially constructed? Empirical evidence from Fiji, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleThe objective of this paper is to better understand the various individual and household factors that influence resilience, that is, people's ability to respond adequately to shocks and stressors. One of our hypotheses is ... -
Not by rent alone: analysing the pro-poor functions of small-scale fisheries in developing countries
(2010)Type: Journal ArticleThe dominant view in academic and policy arenas is increasingly one in which the major contribution of capture fisheries to development should be derived from the capacity of society to maximise the economic rent of fishery ... -
Poverty reduction as a means to enhance resilience in small-scale fisheries
(2011)Type: Book ChapterThis chapter examines the multiple dimensions of poverty and related 'state of being' such as vulnerability and social exclusion, with reference to several important aspects of vulnerability, including gender, climate ... -
Predicting the water requirement of river fisheries.
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleThis 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 ... -
Reconciling poverty alleviation with reduction in fisheries capacity: boat aid in post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia
(2008)Type: Journal ArticleThe tremendous loss of life and assets resulting from the 2004 tsunami dealt a devastating blow to the coastal communities of Aceh Province, Indonesia. An assessment of the fishing fleet structure pre- and posttsunami, ... -
Small-scale fisheries through the wellbeing lens
(2014)Type: Journal ArticleDespite 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 ... -
Social and economic impacts of agricultural productivity intensification: the case brush park fisheries in Lake Volta
(2009)Type: Journal ArticleThe 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 ...
