This manual aims at providing practical guidance on how to achieve gender-equitable small-
scale fisheries in the context of the implementation of the SSF Guidelines. Women play a key …

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), World Bank, Worldfish Center, International
Collective in Support of Fish workers (ICFS), World Fisher Forum (WFF), international …

Ascending out of poverty and achieving wellbeing is the end outcome of a very complex
chain of interrelated factors, interactions and governance decisions, which makes wellbeing …

Many tools that are helpful for evaluating emissions mitigation measures, such as carbon
abatement cost curves, focus exclusively on cost and emissions reduction potential without …

This book is intended as a contribution to our understanding of the uncertain situation of
small-scale fisheries (SSF) which face marginalisation in most coastal countries, and …

There is a growing need to strengthen the small-scale fishing sector with emerging
governance methods that improve fishers' threatened livelihoods. Therefore, this study's aim …

Development plans with insufficient knowledge about local realities, and that do not share
technical or planning details with the target communities, bedevil development practice. This …

Drawing from critical assessments of market citizenship and neoliberal resource
management, this article on eastern Nicaragua demonstrates that state policies threaten the …

This contribution seeks to provide an overview of policy actions taken by the government of
Nicaragua in relation to critical aspects of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible …

This chapter seeks to explore the governance challenges associated with lobster diving on
the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. Driven by external market pressure, commercial lobster …