Free Download Svein Jentoft, Arne Eide, "Poverty Mosaics: Realities and Prospects in Small-Scale Fisheries"
English | 2011 | pages: 528 | ISBN: 9400715811, 9400792840 | PDF | 12,8 mb
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 deep 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.
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