Poverty Mosaics: Realities and Prospects in Small-Scale Fisheries
BOOK edited by Svein Jentoft and Arne Eide
This new book published by Springer provides a global perspective, situating small-scale fisheries within the broad academic discourse on poverty, fisheries management and development.
Small-scale fisheries are a major source of food and employment around the world. Yet, many small-scale fishers work in conditions that are neither safe nor secure. Millions of them are poor, and often they are socially and politically marginalized. Macro-economic and institutional mechanisms are essential to address these poverty and vulnerability problems; however, interventions at the local community level are also necessary. This requires understanding of what poverty means to the fishers, their families and communities; how they cope with it; and the challenges they face to increase resiliency and improve their lives for the better.
In-depth case studies from 15 countries in Latin America, Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, demonstrate the complex ecological, economic, social, cultural and political contexts of this sector.
Conclusions for policy-making, formulated as a joint statement by the authors, argue that fisheries development, poverty alleviation, and resource management must be integrated within a comprehensive governance approach that also looks beyond fisheries.
The book features a chapter by Prof. Georges Midré, member of CROP's Norwegian National Committee. The scientific editors, Svein Jentoft and Arne Eide, are also based at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
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