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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?
Trends and causes in the development of fishing effort in SADC freshwater fisheries: Implications for management
Book Chapter | Jan 2001
Trends and causes in the development of fishing effort in SADC freshwater fisheries: Implications f
Africa: SADC
The donor dilemma
News | 22 Dec 2016
Donors are trying to crack down on corrupt politicians in Mozambique by withholding aid money. Will their approach hold the culprits of corrupt acts and ...
Aid, Corruption, Mozanbique
Corruption and Industrial Fishing in Africa
U4 Issue | Dec 2008
Africa's marine resources are increasingly in demand and are gaining in geopolitical importance. Competition between key fishing nations for access and ...
corruption, natural resources, fisheries, natural resource management
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
Marine protected areas and managing fished ecosystems
CMI Report | Jan 1999
This paper provides a synthesis of the current literature on the potential of marine protected areas (MPAs) as a management tool to limit the ecosystem ...
Ecosystems, Fishery, Marine reserves, Marine protected areas, Community participation, Socio-economic aspects
The Difficult Transition from Subsistence to Commercial Fishing
Journal Article | Jan 1990
The Difficult Transition from Subsistence to Commercial Fishing Inge Tvedten Maritime Anthropologic
Introduction
Book Chapter | Jan 1992
Introduction Inge Tvedten Fishing for development. Small-scale fisheries in Africa Tvedten, Inge and
Markets and the fishing down marine food webs phenomenon
Journal Article | Jan 1998
Markets and the fishing down marine food webs phenomenon Ussif Rashid Sumaila EC fisheries cooperat
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
Wives and Traders: Women's Careers in Ghanaian Canoe Fisheries
Journal Article | Jan 1993
Wives and Traders: Women's Careers in Ghanaian Canoe Fisheries Ragnhild Overå Maritime Anthropologi
Fish traders, fishing communities, gender relations, Ghana, Ghana
If You Don't Fish You are not a Caprivian: Freshwater Fisheries in Caprivi, Namibia
Journal Article | Jan 2002
If You Don't Fish You are not a Caprivian: Freshwater Fisheries in Caprivi, Namibia Inge Tvedten Th
Africa: Namibia
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
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
Fishing at home and abroad: Access to waters in Niger's Central Delta and the effects of work migration
Book Chapter | Jan 2001
Fishing at home and abroad: Access to waters in Niger's Central Delta and the effects of work migra
Freshwater Fisheries and Fish Management in Namibia
Report in External Series | Jan 1994
Freshwater Fisheries and Fish Management in Namibia Inge Tvedten, Lori-ann girvan, Melinda Maasdorp
Corruption and Commercial Fisheries in Africa
U4 Brief | Dec 2008
Heightened competition and considerable illegal fishing by commercial boats, suggest that incentives for corruption in African fisheries are high. Dependence ...
corruption, natural resources, fisheries, natural resource management
Modernisation narratives and small-scale fisheries in Ghana and Zambia
Journal Article | Nov 2011
The desire to modernise African small-scale fisheries has persisted since colonial times. In terms of research into and policy on fisheries, mainstream ...
Ghana, Zambia
Corruption and state-corporate crime in fisheries
U4 Issue | Jan 2015
This U4 Issue paper describes corruption in the fisheries sector through the lens of state-corporate crime. It presents a case study from Senegal where ...
natural resource management
What's the catch? Considering an EITI for fisheries
U4 Brief | Dec 2011
Lack of transparency in commercial fisheries has been a longstanding issue for those working to promote small-scale fishers’ rights in developing ...
natural resource management, corruption, marine fisheries, transparency