In 2015, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) funded a US$32,000 project to generate a diagnostic and actionable knowledge on the linkages between social protection, natural resource management, women and overall people’s empowerment and poverty alleviation in fisheries and forestry communities in two Caribbean countries. The countries selected for the study were St. Vincent and the Grenadines (with a focus on St. Vincent) and Trinidad and Tobago (with a focus on Trinidad). In each country, CANARI examined the existing overarching social protection and poverty reduction policies and the range of social protection initiatives and how they were affecting fishers and forest users in terms of building resilience of their livelihoods.

Type of Case
Printed publication (book, sourcebook, journal article…)

Publisher
Caribbean Natural Resource Institute

Region
Americas

Biome
Tropical

Forest Type
All forest types (natural and planted)

Primary Designated Function
All