Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission

Fishery livelihoods

This is a curated collection of technical documents that are relevant tolivelihoods in fisheries and aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific region, with particulalr emphaisis on small-scale fisheries.
2011

Proceedings of a regional lessons learned workshop on safety at sea and vulnerability reduction, held in Dili, Timor-Leste in October 2011. Key findings, lessons learned and recommendations for both a) safety at sea and b) vulnerability reduction were presented by six participating south and southeast Asia countries, namely Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Viet Nam.

2011

A best practice example of how to provide a readable, illustrated synthesis of a full scale project/programme baseline survery report. This document for Timor-Leste summarizes the context on the ground for co-management, safety at sea, post-harvest and marketing of aquatic products, livelihoods and access to micro-finance services. 

2010

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 span a range of countries and  environments in the Asian region and give an...