The blue economy is being promoted as capable of achieving sustainability and prosperity,
fair use of the ocean and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ensuring a more …

Women play a critical role in every link of the value chain in small-scale fisheries, although
their best-known roles are in processing and marketing of fish and other fishery products …

the paper identifies some of the barriers faced by women to gain equal access to
organizations and decision-making. The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable …

The contribution by women to fisheries economies globally continues to be overlooked, in
part, because “fishing” is often narrowly defined as catching fish at sea, from a vessel, using …

While women are often key actors in fisheries, they are commonly excluded from making
fisheries management decisions, often due to cultural norms. The objective of this …

Shrimp aquaculture is a primary driver of mangrove deforestation globally. The decline of
these forests not only threatens the integrity of valuable ecosystems but can also produce …

This paper revisits the 1979 seminal work of Ian Smith and the research agenda for small-
scale fisheries which identified areas of research which would have the greatest potential for …

We implemented the novel Women's Empowerment in Fisheries Index (WEFI)(adapted from
the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index), among men and women fisheries value …

Since 1990, papers presented at successive women/gender and fisheries conferences of
the Asian Fisheries Society have followed a pathway trodden by other fields of gender …

While key to the sustainability of fisheries, women's contributions to this sector are largely
outside of the conventional discourse on fisheries participation and remain poorly …