This paper fills an important gap towards ensuring gender responsive fish value chains by analyzing the factors that influence women’s participation in fish value chains and value chain governance in Malawi. The study was based on the hypothesis that gendered differences are prevalent in the fish value chains and their...
In Africa at least 10 million people depend in fisheries. 90% of fish is from the continent is landed by small-scale fishers. The value of landed catch from the continent is estimated at $2.7 billion annually. In southern Africa, the main fishery resources range from inland lake and river systems...
The Chambo is an important fish to Malawi's economy and livelihoods of local people in southern end of Lake Malawi. While worries about overexploitation of the chambo have been a source of concern since the 1930s, the biological and economic collapse of the fishery in Lake Malombe and the Upper...
The last fifteen years have seen increased reference to and adoption of comanagement
in fisheries in Southern Africa, usually as a conditionality for
(national or international) development aid in the sector. Co-management is
supposed to improve the proficiency and efficiency of fisheries
management through decentralization and democratization of decisionmaking,
which...
This paper investigates whether policy and governance reforms for transforming the Squid industry, especially those related to redistribution of fishing rights and improved conditions of employment, have impacted positively on the crewmembers. Governance has two key elements; firstly, in the absence of government or lack of capacity to enforce legislation...