This case study presents an overview of the context, details the RFLP intervention, gives the results, implementation problems, and recommendations and key lessons learned when RFLP supported handicrafts production as an alternative livelihoods option for fisher households in the Negombo lagoon area of Sri Lanka.

Workshop proceedings of the RFLP regional lessons learned and best practices workshop on alternative livelihoods for small-scale fisheries sector, held in Palawan, the Philippines, in April 2011.

Keynote presentation for theme 7: Livelihoods among Fishing Communities and Prospects of Employment in Fisheries Related Activities, at the ASEAN-SEAFDEC Conference on Sustainable Fisheries for Food Security Towards 2020 “Fish for the People 2020: Adaptation to a Changing Environment”, 13-17 June, 2011, Bangkok, Thailand.  

Ben Cattermoul of IMM was engaged by RFLP to provide training for regional and national staff from the six collaborating countries on the sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA) and on the RFLP baseline survey design in April 2010, immediately before the RFLP inception workshop which was held in Phuket, Thailand.

APFIC (2010). Country case studies presented at the APFIC/FAO Regional consultative workshop “Best practices for supporting and improving livelihoods of small scale fisheries and aquaculture households”, 13 - 15 October, 2009, Manila, Philippines. APFIC ad hoc publication, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand, 57 pp. This a collection of   case studies which were presented at the above workshop. They...