A human-rights approach to fisheries
The 'green economy' that Rio+20 hopes to focus on cannot afford to ignore a human-rights approach to sustainable fisheries.
Samudra
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Green, blue and true
The following is the input of ICSF to the Compilation Document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).
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Fairness or efficiency?
As Europe moves towards privatization of fisheries, it is faced with the dilemma of balancing social and economic objectives in the new Common Fisheries Policy.
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The people who spear pollock
The Passamaquoddy tribe in eastern Maine, US, are indigenous fishers who are trying to exercise sovereign rights to resources.
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Community concerns
A two-day workshop, titled “Fishery-dependent Livelihoods, Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity: The Case of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas in India”, was held in New Delhi during 1-2 March
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Hitting where it hurts
The European Community
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This belongs to us
The fishers of the Indonesian island village of Lamalera have an age-old tradition of whaling that mixes social, cultural and economic practices to sustain livelihoods.
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Remembering the source
The traditional Vietnamese system of social and community organization, called van chai, can be the basis of a viable fisheries management system.
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How deep are our treaties
Faced with the commodification of food and livelihoods in the fishery of Canada
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Pitiful plunder
The social, environmental and economic destruction that results from the plunder of land in Bangladesh by the shrimp industry is pitiful.