The workshop and symposium titled Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries: Towards FAO Guidelines on Marine and Inland Small-scale Fisheries was jointly organized by the National Fishworkers’ Forum (NFF) and the Society for Direct Initiative for Social and Health Action (DISHA), in collaboration with the International Collective in Support of Fishwo...

This study commissioned by ICSF, explores how developments in the aquaculture sector could affect the social, economic, cultural and political rights of these communities, particularly their rights to life and livelihood.

This report aims to elaborate some local practices of fishery management in Indonesia, which are based on current local custom as well as local agreement used as the basis of fishery management. During its history, fishery management in Indonesia in fact began with the initiative from the local community’s understanding (local knowledge; customa...

The workshop on "Emerging Concerns of Fishing Communities: Issues of Labour, Trade, Gender, Disaster Preparedness, Biodiversity and Responsible Fisheries", 04 to 06 July 2006, was held in SESC, Fortaleza, Brazil. The workshop was co-hosted by the NGO Instituto Terramar.

The document gives a detailed report of the presentations and discus...

Fishing Communities and Sustainable Development in Eastern and Southern Africa: The Role of Small-Scale Fisheries", organized by ICSF during 14-17 March, 2006 at Kurasini Training and Conference Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in collaboration with the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) and the Masifundise Development Trus...

ICSF's Women in Fisheries (WIF) programme has been working in several countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America since 1992, with the basic objective of strengthening the participation of women in fishworker organizations and in decision-making at various levels. Contact with fishworker organizations in the Latin American region has helped esta...

A detailed and differentiated understanding of regional fish trade in artisanally processed fish products and the constraints to it,from the perspective of artisanal fish processors and traders...

The study focuses on Guinea-Conakry, Senegal,Benin, Togo, Ghana, Gambia and Ivory Coast, which are either important producers or consumers of ...