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Illuminating Hidden Harvest news update - edition #2 Oct 2019
Type: Newsletter
The second news update for the Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH) study covers the progress of research activities, the latest news and upcoming events.
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.
Illuminating Hidden Harvests science cafe at 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (event proceedings)
Type: Conference Proceedings
The aim of IHH is to capture and quantify the contributions of SSF to the three pillars of sustainable development (economic, social and environmental) at a global level. Data and information to produce these ...
From sound economics to sound management: practical solutions to small-scale fisheries governance in the developing world
Type: Journal Article
This is a commentary on Daniel Bromley's paper (The crisis in ocean governance: conceptual confusion, spurious economics, political indifference). Taking into consideration the varied context of small-scale fisheries in ...
The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance
Type: Journal Article
Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular alternative—involves many centres of authority ...
Governance and decentralization reforms in small-scale fisheries: an African perspective
Type: Book Chapter
Relying 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 ...
Livelihoods and fisheries governance in a contemporary Pacific Island setting
Type: Journal Article
Inshore marine resources play an important role in the livelihoods of Pacific Island coastal communities. However, such reliance can be detrimental to inshore marine ecosystems. Understanding the livelihoods of coastal ...
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 ...
Geography limits island small-scale fishery production
Type: Journal Article
Interacting social and ecological processes shape productivity and sustainability of island small-scale fisheries (SSF). Understanding limits to productivity through historical catches help frame future expectations and ...
Illuminating Hidden Harvests: the contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development
Type: Report
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) is the flagship publication of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. This premier advocacy document is published every two years to provide policy-makers, civil ...