After half a century of fisheries development focused on large-scale fisheries the policy arena is finally becoming more conductive to sustaining small-scale fisheries (SSF) in economically developing countries, with a particular focus on international trade opportunities. Debates for and against increased integration of SSF into globalized trade have been presented,...
Research on the linkages between climate change, coastal communities and gender is scarce. In this presentation we address this from a marine resource management perspective based on ecosystem goods and services, gendered adaptive capacity and its links to transformative agency. The hypothesis is that there are gender differences in resource...
In Zanzibar, an increasing number of women have entered fish markets acting as a link between fishers and
consumers, i.e. a middleman. However, since fisheries are traditionally male dominated, women receive little
recognition. Thus, gender analysis in the fisheries sector potentially can enhance management and development
policies as well as...