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Migrant fishermen in Congo: Tradition and modernity
CMI Report | Jan 1994
This report presents an empirical analysis of the dynamics of the community of Béninois (Popo) migrant fishermen in Pointe-Noire. The treatment ...
Fishermen, Migration, West Africa, Central Africa, Republic of Congo
Access regimes and institutions: The economic organisation of the migrant Popo fishermen of Pointe- Noire, Congo
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1999
Within Popo society in Pointe Noire, Congo, fishermen sell their fish to their wives at a price slightly below the local market price. The wives process ...
Republic of Congo
Changing Tides: Gender, Fisheries and Globalization
News | 21 Jun 2005
In this edited volume, senior researcher Ragnhild Overaa writes about coastal women in Ghana in her essay When Sisters Become Competitors: Coastal Women's Innovative Utilization of Trawler By-Catch in Ghana. How do actors in "traditional" and "modern" systems of fishing interact? What economic and social changes occur in a local community as a result of women's entrepreneurship in relation to both systems?
Migration and resource access - Mali
Project | Jan 1998 - Dec 2001
To investigate the local institutional effects of extinsive international migration (Burkina Fasso, Ivory coast, Nigeria) among Bozo fishermen in Mali....
Migration, local institutions, resource access, Fisheries, Mali, West Africa
Fishermen and Territorial Anxieties in China and Vietnam: Narratives of the South China Sea beyond the Nation Frame
Journal Article | May 2017
In the geopolitical conflict over the South China Sea (SCS), fishers are at the center of Chinese and Vietnamese cartographic imaginations that define ...
Fishing for Development. Small-Scale Fisheries in Africa
Edited Book | Jan 1992
Small-scale or artisanal fishery is a neglected sector in research on African development, despite the fact that fishery is a vital source of protein ...
Small-scale fishery, fishermen, fishery development
Small-scale fisheries, population dynamics and resource use in Africa: The case of Moree, Ghana
Journal Article | Jan 2002
The relationships between population dynamics and fishery resources are more complex than the concept of Malthusian overfishing implies. Reasons include ...
Population dynamics, migration, fisheries management, sustainability, Ghana, Africa
Fishery as a livelihood strategy in Malawi. Analyzing a small LSMS sub-sample
Journal Article | Jan 2012
We illustrate how a national household survey can be applied to analyse a subject that requires data from a small sub-sample. Even for small sub-samples ...
data-issues, occupational choice, Malawi
Management, co-management or no management? Major dilemmas in sustainable exploitation of inland fisheries in the SADC Countries
Project | Jan 1998 - Dec 2001
The project contains ten case studies and a synthesis. The case studies have been conducted in five medium sized lakes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...
Fisheries management, development of fishing effort, climatic factors, sectoral mobility, local access regulation, Africa: Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa
Institutions, mobility and resilience in the Fante migratory fisheries of West Africa
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2001
The fishery of the Fante town Moree in Ghana and its network of migrants in West Africa is here understood as a social field, whose institutions are key ...
Migration, institutions, fisheries management, Africa: Ghana, West Africa
Management, co-management or no management? Major dilemmas in southern African freshwater fisheries. Vol. 1: Synthesis report Vol.2: Case studies
Book | Jan 2003
Fisheries in the South Africa Development Community freshwaters are found to function as an economic buffer and as a safety valve for thousands of people ...
Fishery, Freshwater fish, DR Congo, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Population dynamics and resource management in small- scale fishing communities in Africa 1998-2000
Project | Jan 1998 - Dec 2000
This multidisciplinary project (demography, geography, fishery biology, sociology)examined population dynamics, development of fishery resources, and ...
Small-scale fisheries, natural resource management, migration, population dynamics, Ghana, Africa
Well-being among Fisherfolks in Africa Research (WELFARE)
Project | Jan 2005 - Dec 2007
The project starts asking if poverty in small scale fisheries really is as serious as one may get the impression of or if some of the misery may be is ...
Small scale fisheries, poverty analysis, social change, Southern Africa, West Africa
Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam, co-published by NIAS Press and the University of Hawai'i Press (Paperback February 2021)
Book | Sep 2020
This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state ...