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Strong women, strong nation
Type: Working Paper
Innovative research in the Southeast Asian island nation of Timor-Leste has obtained data to help close the gender gap and provide food security for the local community.
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 ...
Operationalizing the ecosystem approach to small-scale fisheries Management in the Philippines: The Iligan Bay Alliance of Misamis Occidental
Type: Journal Article
This paper describes the application of the participatory diagnosis and adaptive management (PDAM) framework to analyze the governance of small-scale fisheries and the potential for adopting the Ecosystem Approach to ...
Nearshore fish aggregating devices show positive outcomes for sustainable fisheries development in Timor-Leste
Type: Journal Article
Capture fisheries in small island developing states (SIDS) have the capacity to increase access to vital micronutrient-rich food to tackle malnutrition, but when fishers are restricted to nearshore habitats by limited ...
Fisheries and aquaculture of Timor-Leste in 2019: Current knowledge and opportunities
Type: Internal Report
This report details the current knowledge and available data on the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in Timor-Leste.
Navigating change: Second-generation challenges of small-scale fisheries co-management in the Philippines and Vietnam
Type: Journal Article
Early efforts to apply the concept of fisheries co-management in Southeast Asia focused primarily on building the effectiveness of local management institutions and advocating the merits of the approach so that it would ...
Small-scale marine fisheries policy in Vietnam
Type: Journal Article
Vietnam’s marine fisheries are considered to be small scale and are concentrated in coastal near-shore waters. This has resulted in heavy pressure on near-shore fisheries resources. Near-shore fisheries are considered by ...
Evaluating the Fit of Co-management for Small-Scale Fisheries Governance in Timor-Leste
Type: Book Chapter
Fisheries co-management is an increasingly globalized concept, and a cornerstone of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, adopted ...
Narrative assemblages for power-balanced coastal and marine governance. Tara Bandu as a tool for community-based fisheries co-management in Timor-Leste
Type: Journal Article
Poverty alleviation and resource governance are inextricably related. Mainstream resource management has been typically criticized by social scientists for the inherent power imbalances between fishery managers and small-scale ...
Addressing small scale fisheries management through Participatory Action Research (PAR), an experience from the Philippines
Type: Journal Article
This paper is about the use of Participatory Action Research (PAR) and how it can influence change among stakeholders in small scale fisheries. It is made up of the following sections: an articulation of why the use of ...