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مقالة إخبارية
Latin America and the Caribbean: The Need to Say ‘We’
The Latin American and Caribbean Workshop on IYAFA 2022 issued a global Call for Action for sustainable and equitable small-scale fisheries.
A tourist village in Cananeia city in the south coast of the Sao Paulo state in Brazil hosted 45 fishermen, fisherwomen and supporters from 16 different countries on 2-5 November...
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة إخبارية
Ghana: Go Back, Retrieve It
The Sankofa Project seeks to investigate the gendered socio-economic effects of the fisheries closure in four coastal regions of Ghana to understand how the policy affects communities.
A research project was launched in Ghana to focus on equitable, inclusive and sustainable fisheries management. Titled Creating Synergies between Indigenous Practices and Scientific...
Ghana
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة إخبارية
From the Editor, Yemaya Newsletter No.69, June 2024
Yemaya No. 69, dated June 2024, features articles from Barbados, India, Spain, a regional study focusing on Kenya, Sri Lanka and Cambodia and Women in Fisheries Action plans from ICSF’s IYAFA workshops from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean Islands.
A series of regional workshops were held through...
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة إخبارية
Barbados: Advocating for justice
Barbados’ fisherfolk build capacity to advocate for climate, blue and social justice. Fisherfolk in Barbados today experience growing marginalization.
Fisherfolk in Barbados today experience growing marginalization. They are increasingly frustrated by the injustices they face from every quarter: their peers, the management authorities at fish landing sites and markets, national government...
Barbados
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
معرض صور
The Classroom of Life: Indigenous women in Thailand set up their forest as a space for knowledge transmission
In the Indigenous Karen village of Huay Ee Khang, in the mountainous north of Thailand, all life starts in the forest: When a baby is born, its umbilical cord is placed in a bamboo container and hung on a healthy fruit tree.“This way, the souls of the baby and the...
Thailand
2024 - Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
مقالة إخبارية
Asia/Africa: Shrinking spaces
Women in small-scale fishing communities bear the worst impacts as coastal space in the Indian Ocean region is increasingly encroached upon by state and private activities.
This article is based on a cross-regional study that focused on how ruptures in the form of environmental stress and political economic pressures impacted small-scale...
India - Kenya - Sri Lanka
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة إخبارية
India: The Tiger Widows of the Sunderbans
In the forests of the Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, limited livelihood options often drive male fishers literally into the jaws of death, with their widows left struggling for survival.
The expression ‘Byaghro Bidhoba’, which literally translates to ‘Tiger Widows’, is a term used to refer to women who have lost...
India
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
فيديو
Accès au foncier, un casse tête pour plusieurs femmes au Bénin
Ce court reportage présente les difficultés d’accès au foncier des femmes au Bénin. Pas de terre lors du partage de l’héritage, pas de possibilité d’acheter un terrain et stéréotype de genre très forts, bien que les femmes soient protégées par la loi au Bénin, les défis du foncier auxquelles elles...
Benin
2024 - Le rural Bénin TV
مقالة
Gender equality for greener and bluer futures: why women’s leadership matters for realising environmental goals
Women and men play different roles in the environment, bringing a wealth of knowledge, unique skills, and experiences around ecosystems and conservation that often differ from each other. Women are gatherers and managers of natural resources, playing a key role in sustainable development. Data and information showcase the ways in...
2024 - International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
مقالة إخبارية
Spain: Present but hardly represented
Women who dominate the shellfish harvest sector in Galicia struggle for due representation and policy inclusion.
On the North-Western region of Galicia in Spain, shore-based shellfish harvesting is carried out mainly by women. With traditional and very simple tools that have remained virtually unchanged over time, women gather in beaches to...
Spain
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة إخبارية
Milestones: Urgent Collective Action to Break the Gridlock
Human Development Report 2023-24: Breaking the gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world.
The Human Development Index, or HDI, is probably the second most-used measure of a country’s development, after GDP. It uses a variety of indicators and gauges progress in terms of societal outcomes, including a healthy life (life expectancy...
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة إخبارية
Spain: Net Working
Atalaia exemplifies the power of community and the enduring value of traditional craft in modern times.
In the picturesque region of Galicia in northwest Spain, the tradition of netmaking and repair is deeply intertwined with the local fishing industry. This craft, historically carried out by women, has seen a resurgence thanks...
Spain
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة إخبارية
Profile: Dolores Gómez – Moving from strength to strength
Dolores Gomez not only leads shellfish gatherers in the male-dominated Galician seafood sector but also places feminism front and centre in the conversation.
Dolores Gómez Ordoñez has been the President of Mulleres Salgadas since 2019. Mulleres Salgadas is an association of shellfish gatherers in Spain. It was founded in 2016 and...
Spain
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
تقرير
Women in fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region: roles, challenges and opportunities
Women play active roles throughout the fisheries value chain in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, including participating in pre-harvest activities like vessel and gear construction and maintenance, harvest activities both on board fishing vessels and from shore, and post-harvest activities such as sorting, cleaning, processing and marketing the catch,...
2024 - FAO
مقالة إخبارية
Yemaya Recommends: Women in Small-scale Fisheries in Ghana – the unsung heroines
This documentary showcases Ghana where the most pressing issues are those of overfishing and pollution due to a rapid decline of fisheries in the country.
“I’ve learned that I should do away with fear,” declares Juliana Anna Dogbe Kumado a fishmonger in Ghana and a participant in the One Ocean Hub...
Ghana
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
كتاب
Sakhis: Women for Action, Change, Growth
For the last 25 years, SSP has nurtured cadres of grassroots women leaders called Sakhis, who have won numerous honours and accolades for their own transformation, and for various sustainable solutions and projects they have initiated. Many of these Sakhis are feted as decision makers in their own communities, and...
India
2024 - Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP)
خطوط توجيهية
Regional Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan 2024–2027 for the Near East and North Africa region
The new Regional Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan 2024–2027 for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region aims to ensure its applicability across the diverse and complex contexts within the NENA region. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of the region, characterized by a spectrum of situations, the strategy incorporates...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقالة
Agroécologie(s), femmes et travail : action, transformation et ré-existences
Cet article “Agroécologie(s), femmes et travail : action, transformation et ré-existences” analyse la manière dont le travail des femmes dans l’agriculture familiale se reconfigure dans les transitions agroécologiques en Argentine et présente une réflexion détaillée sur les liens entre agroécologie, travail des femmes et féminisme, tout en proposant des perspectives...
Argentina
2024
دراسة حالة
Diagnostic of gender and age norms in financial inclusion A pilot study in five districts of Malawi
This report presents an investigation into how social norms impact rural women’s and youth’s ability to access and use formal financial products and services in Malawi. It confirms the importance of considering social norms when designing interventions to improve women’s and youth’s economic empowerment. It also offers concrete recommendations for...
Malawi
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
FAO welcomes the celebration of the International Year of the Woman Farmer in 2026
Approved by the UN General Assembly, it will increase awareness of the crucial role women farmers play in agrifood systems
The UN General Assembly has declared 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer, following a resolution proposed by the United States and supported by the FAO. This initiative aims to highlight the crucial role of women farmers in food security, nutrition, and poverty eradication, and to address the...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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