Gleaner, fisher, trader, processor: understanding gendered employment in fisheries and aquaculture

N Weeratunge, KA Snyder, CP Sze - Fish and Fisheries, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Most research on gender difference or inequities in capture fisheries and aquaculture in
Africa and the Asia‐Pacific focuses on the gender division of labour. Emerging research on …

Small‐scale fisheries through the wellbeing lens

N Weeratunge, C Béné, R Siriwardane… - Fish and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Despite longstanding recognition that small‐scale fisheries make multiple contributions to
economies, societies and cultures, assessing these contributions and incorporating them …

Women fish traders on the Kenyan coast: livelihoods, bargaining power, and participation in management

N Matsue, T Daw, L Garrett - Coastal Management, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Although gender plays a key role in mediating social relations and livelihood dynamics in
fisheries, women's roles have received little attention in many fisheries. Mama karanga are …

Market women's skills, constraints, and agency in supplying affordable, safe, and high-quality fish in Ghana

R Overå, A Atter, S Amponsah, M Kjellevold - Maritime Studies, 2022 - Springer
In Ghana, the role of female informal traders (“market women”) in making low-cost smoked
and dried fish available in urban and rural marketplaces is the key to explaining the high …

“Fishing na everybody business”: Women's work and gender relations in Sierra Leone's fisheries

A Thorpe, N Pouw, A Baio, R Sandi… - Feminist …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
While small-scale fisheries in many developing countries is “everybody's business,” a
gendered labor division concentrates production in the hands of fishermen while women …

Modernisation narratives and small-scale fisheries in Ghana and Zambia

R Overå - Forum for Development Studies, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The desire to modernise African small-scale fisheries has persisted since colonial times. In
terms of research into and policy on fisheries, mainstream narratives have depicted fishers …

Turning the tide: women's lives in fisheries and the assault of capital

N Biswas - Economic and Political Weekly, 2011 - JSTOR
Over the years, research on women in the fisheries moved from a framework of political
economy to a framework of political ecology. This meant that analyses shifted away from …

[PDF][PDF] Transforming aquatic agricultural systems towards gender equality: a five country review

N Weeratunge, TM Chiuta, A Choudhury, AJ Ferrer… - 2012 - academia.edu
Aquatic agricultural systems (AAS) are systems in which the annual production dynamics of
freshwater and/or coastal ecosystems contribute significantly to total household income …

Women's work, survival strategies and capitalist modernization in South Indian small-scale fisheries: the case of Kerala

P Aswathy, K Kalpana - Gender, Technology and Development, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Women's work in fisheries in the Global South is valorized for its role in sustaining small-
scale fishing in the face of complex challenges from corporate-backed industrial fishing. This …

From hand to mouth: fishery projects, women, men and household poverty

M Porter, RG Mbezi - … of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This paper challenges the assumption that improvements to fisheries knowledge and
practices in Tanzania would benefit not just fishers but their entire households and …