There is a marked need to better understand the interconnectivity between poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability since impoverished communities are often dependent upon their natural habitat to meet basic needs, and strategies to improve the livelihoods of the poor must consider the role of their natural environment. While previous studies...
While the focus of Lake Victoria Nile-perch fishery is to serve the global market and tilapia is mainly for
domestic market in Tanzania; Dagaa has a great potential for small scale trade in regional markets. In
2006 a survey was conducted to assess the regional fish marketing channel for the...
In 2011 the FAO Committee on Fisheries tasked FAO with the development of an international instrument in the form of guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries (SSF Guidelines). The SSF Guidelines will facilitate the empowerment and mobilization of stakeholders to promote change towards sustainable small-scale fisheries and hence facilitate the...
The introduction of culture-based fisheries (CBF) in small scale irrigation systems is increasing the marginal value of water in rice farming. The amount of water that is used in Sri Lanka for rice farming could be utilised to generate more profitable non-crop economic activities such as CBF. This paper examines...
Nigerian women in fishing sector remain a potent force in the economic growth of fishing communities.
The basic objective of involving women in fisheries Development is to make them equal partners to men.
That will enable them to participate productively and self-reliantly to improve their family’s nutritional
and living standards....
The paper discusses contribution of dagaa Rastreneobola argentae fishery to Tanzanian economy. It uses data from two studies conducted in Lake Victoria as well as literature retrieved from Fisheries Division and other institutions. Results indicate that dagaa fishery generates an average monthly income over $150 to individual fisher/trader, provided employment...
“Gender equality thinking should not focus just on the numbers of women and men in fish
supply chains”, said Gifty Anane-Taabeah (Ghana), the final panelist on Overcoming Gender
Equalities in Fish Supply Chains. The panel and two presentation sessions (Markets and Value
Chains for Small Aquaculture Enterprises and Looking at...
Marketing of Mukene (Rastrineobola argentea) has become a lucrative business in Uganda after decades
of underutilization but its value-chain from capture to market remains unknown. Consequently, a study
was undertaken at two selected landing sites located along L. Victoria and several Kampala markets.
Using a structured questionnaire a total of...
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...
DOGMATIS is a multidisciplinary research project funded by the French Research Agency (ANR, programme ANR-OGM 2007-2010), which gathered specialists of fish transgenesis, GMO detection and regulation, fish market chain economy, consumer sociology and contemporary science philosophy and epistemology. The aim of DOGMATIS was to investigate the questions raised by the...