Fishery livelihoods
Small-scale fishery in Southeast Asia: a case study in Southern Thailand
2001
Nine out of every ten of the world's 30 million people who make a living directly from fishing live in Asia and some 80 percent of them are small-scale fisherfolk. However, the food and livelihood needs of a growing population are running up against limited fishery resources, which are fast depleting in most coastal regions of Asia. This publication contains the results of a study of small-scale fishery along Thailand's Andaman Sea coast, which...
Gender and Aquaculture in Lao PDR
1998
Gender and Aquaculture in Lao PDR: A synthesis of a socio-economic and gender analysis of the UNDP/FAO Aquaculture Development Project LAO/97/007 The gender and socio-economic roles of men and women in different forms of Lao aquaculture (pond, rice-cum-fish, mini-hatchery) have so far not been studied in-depth. This socio-economic and gender analysis of Lao aquaculture was conducted in five Lao provinces within the scope of the UNDP/FAO project LAO/97/007 in mid-1998. There are several traditional fish farming practices....