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Harnessing the diversity of small-scale actors is key to the future of aquatic food systems
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture (SSFA) provide livelihoods for over 100 million people and sustenance for ~1 billion people, particularly in the Global South. Aquatic foods are distributed through diverse supply ...
Building adaptive capacity to climate change; approaches applied in five diverse fisheries settings
Type: Brief
Climate change poses a range of risks to coastal and inland rural communities in the global tropics. People living within these communities depend directly on physical and natural environments for income, food and their ...
Characteristics and performance of fisheries co-management in Asia; Synthesis of knowledge and case studies: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Philippines, and Sri Lanka
Type: Report
Collaboration between governments, NGOs, and resource custodians, users and beneficiaries is globally recognized as a foundation of fair and effective management of natural resource access and use. These collaborative forms ...
Beyond gender-blind livelihoods: Considerations for coastal livelihood initiatives
Type: Working Paper
Sustainable and improved livelihoods are often entry points to enhance human well-being and the management of natural resources (Allison and Ellis 2001; Sulu et al. 2015). Yet research shows that many of these livelihood ...
Emerging Information and Communication Technologies for Monitoring India’s Marine Small-Scale Fisheries, Opportunities for Inclusion, Risks of Exclusion
Type: Journal Article
Adaptive, inclusive and effective management of fisheries resources is dependent on knowledge
from multiple quantitative and qualitative sources. As technology advances, there is an increasing
interest in digital and ...
The African Great Lakes Regional Food System; the contribution of fisheries and the case of small pelagic fishes. A Discussion Paper
Type: Brief
The aim of this discussion paper is synthesis of existing policy and strategic commitments that have been made already that implicate the fisheries for small pelagic fish. The Discussion Paper also presents some historical ...
Increasing social and ecological resilience of coastal fisheries
Type: Brief
Small-scale coastal capture fisheries produce almost half the fish consumed in low- and middle- income countries and employ more people than all other ocean economic sectors combined, but their resilience is undermined by ...
CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems: A synthesis
Type: Brief
The fish agri-food system connects supplies of fish and other aquatic foods through multiple pathways and scales to diverse consumers across the planet and is a key component of the global agri-food systems. Fish and other ...
Tinker, tailor or transform: Gender equality amidst social-ecological change
Type: Journal Article
Global visions of environmental change consider gender equality to be a foundation of sustainable social-ecological systems. Similarly, social-ecological systems frameworks position gender equality as both a precursor to, ...
Hilsa fishery management in Bangladesh
Type: Conference Paper
Hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha), is a biologically, nutritionally, economically, socially and culturally important species in the Bay of Bengal and Persian Gulf regions, but Bangladesh enjoys the major share wherein it ...