This brief has been prepared for the UN Convention on Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen, December 2009, to raise awareness of the imminent impacts of climate change on food security in Pacific island countries and territories and to urge participants to consider the importance of mainstreaming food security in climate-related...

Les articles du présent dossier, extraits de SAMUDRA, la revue quadrimestrielle de l’ICSF, attirent l’attention sur ces divers problèmes. Ils font apparaître que conservation et moyens d’existence sont deux aspects très imbriqués, et que les modèles de protection de l’environnement imposés d’en haut de façon non participative peuvent avoir des...

Este dossier recoge varios artículos que sostienen que la conservación y el sustento están íntimamente relacionados entre sí y que los modelos de conservación no participativos e impuestos desde arriba pueden resultar contraproducentes. Las comunidades pesqueras pueden ser poderosas aliadas en los esfuerzos de conservación.  El dossier muestra ejemplos de...

This curriculum, developed and edited by the trainees of the IPM rice-fish ToT, is not a cooking recipe, but an inspirational document which is free for modifications based on local needs. Its contents are a blend of actual ToT experience and other sources, prepared under the guidance of the two...

The Zanzibar Workshop Proceedings consists of the report and the Statement of the Workshop and provides a rich understanding of the dynamics of traditional, indigenous, small-scale and artisanal fisheries and fishing communities in the Eastern and Southern African (ESA) context. The issues covered include: the saga of rights denied to...

This study analyzes five marine protected areas (MPAs) in South Africa, which span three of the country’s four coastal provinces, namely, the Langebaan Lagoon MPA, the Maputaland MPA, the St Lucia MPA, the Tsitsikamma MPA and the Mkambati MPA. A biological, conservation-oriented fisheries science dominates the agendas of these MPAs....

This study on marine protected areas (MPAs) in Mexico relies on a variety of data sources as well as the authors’ longstanding field experience, particularly in the Yucatan Peninsula, to analyze the design, establishment, and operation of protected areas. The study aims to provide an overview of how local stakeholders...

This study discusses the social dimensions of MPAs in Tanzania, using the case of the Mafia Island Marine Park and the socioeconomic, political and cultural contexts within which Mafia people live their lives. Based on documentary surveys and interviews with residents of the island’s villages, national government officials, and the...

This study from Brazil shows, it is possible to use MPAs as a tool for livelihood-sensitive conservation. Based on detailed studies of three sites–the Peixe Lagoon National Park in Rio Grande do Sul, and the marine extractive reserves (MERs) of Mandira, São Paulo, and Corumbau, Bahia–the study shows how communities...

This study on marine protected areas (MPAs) in India analyzes the legal and institutional framework for their establishment, and uses two case studies–the Gulf of Mannar National Park and Biosphere Reserve, and the Malvan (Marine) Wildlife Sanctuary–to document and understand the experiences and views of local communities, particularly fishing communities,...

This dossier puts together a collection of articles from the pages of SAMUDRA Report, the triannual journal of ICSF. The articles show that conservation and livelihoods are closely intertwined, and that top-down, non participatory models of conservation can be counterproductive. Despite being poor and powerless, fishing and coastal communities can...

Global total production of fish, crustaceans and molluscs has continued to increase and reached 142 million tonnes in 2008. While capture production has stayed around 90 million tonnes level since 2001, aquaculture production has continued to show strong growth, increasing at an average annual growth rate of 6.2 percent from...

The fisheries is part of the agriculture in the Czech Republic. Fishing activity is in accordance with Act No. 99/2004 Code, on fishpond farming, execution of the fishing right, fishing guard, protection of marine fisheries resources and amending certain acts (act on fisheries) divided in two activities. These are the...

On craint que les ressources halieutiques mondiales, soumises à diverses pressions, à la surexploitation, continuent à s’amenuiser. Pour gérer de façon durable les pêcheries, les gestionnaires des pêches ont fait appel à de nouveaux outils : attribution de droits de propriété, réorganisation des facteurs de production et des biens et...

Ce guide a pour but de faire une présentation rapide de la Convention sur le travail dans la pêche qui a été adoptée en juin 2007 à Genève lors de la 96ème Conférence internationale du Travail (CIT) de l’Organisation internationale du Travail (OIT). Il ne prétend pas donner une interprétation...

La gestión pesquera moderna se ha ido centrando en la asignación  de derechos de pesca como único camino hacia la sostenibilidad. Las soluciones a partir de este enfoque giran en torno a múltiples modalidades de derechos de propiedad y de control de los regímenes sociales que rigen la tenencia. Los...

Este dossier compila artículos seleccionados de Yemaya por región- Asia, África, América del Sur, Europa, slas del Pacifico y América del Norte. los artículos en conjunto proporcionan una panormámica amplia  de los problemas claves a los que se enfrentan las mujeres en el sector pesquero de cada región, así como...

El objetivo que persigue esta guía consiste en presentar brevemente el Convenio sobre el trabajo en el sector pesquero de 2007, adoptado en junio del mismo año en Ginebra, Suiza, durante la 96ª reunión de la Conferencia Internacional del Trabajo (CIT) de la Organización Mundial del Trabajo (OIT). No pretende...

Women of fishing communities across the world play vital roles in fisheries, and in sustaining their households, communities, social networks and cultures. While these roles are central to maintaining livelihoods and the very activity of fisheries, they often remain unacknowledged and undervalued. Yemaya, the gender and fisheries newsletter from ICSF...

The objectives of this Technical Paper are to highlight the contribution that inland and coastal small-scale fisheries can make to poverty alleviation and food security and to make practical suggestions on ways that this contribution can be maximized. This paper is organized into three main sections. The first section discusses...