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Women in fisheries: pointers for development
Type: Conference Paper
This paper provides a short guide to what each paper in the proceedings contains, the approach it takes and, across all papers, the main messages for human development. It concluded by summarizing all the messages into ...
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 ...
Fishing for justice: Human rights, development, and fisheries sector reform
Type: Journal Article
A review of case law and other documentation of human rights issues in fishing communities highlights forced evictions, detention without trial, child labour, forced labour and unsafe working conditions, and violence and ...
Global Symposium on Women in Fisheries
Type: Conference Proceedings
All over the world, women contribute in multiple ways to the production, processing, marketing and management of fish and other living aquatic resources. The first ever Global Symposium on Women in Fisheries, held in ...
Fisheries development programs and women
Type: Journal Article
A brief examination is made of development programmes aimed at improving the status of women in fisheries, with particular reference to the Bay of Bengal Programme. Activities of this programme have included instruction ...
Transforming gender relations: Key to positive development outcomes in aquatic agricultural systems
Type: Brief
The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) is committed to improving the food security and wellbeing of poor people who depend on freshwater and coastal ecosystems for their livelihoods. AAS is ...
Gender strategy brief: A gender transformative approach to research in development in aquatic agricultural systems
Type: Brief
In July 2011, the CGIAR approved the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) in recognition of the importance of these systems and the potential they provide for reducing poverty. Our goal is to reduce ...
Gleaner, fisher, trader, processor: understanding gendered employment in fisheries and aquaculture
Type: Journal Article
Most research on gender difference or inequities in capture fisheries and aquaculture in Africa and the Asia-Pacific focuses on the gender division of labour. Emerging research on globalization, market changes, poverty and ...
African women join forces to overcome COVID-19 challenges in aquatic food systems
Type: Blog
Across Africa, women working in aquatic food value chains are banding together to support their livelihoods and ensure the continued flow of fish despite COVID-19 lockdowns and disruptions.