Unravelling the Vicious Circle: Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Livelihoods in Small-scale Fisheries (POVFISH)
| Moenieba
Isaacs Mafaniso Hara |
The POVFISH project aims
to map out the effects of environmental insecurity and degradation on
poverty and food security and vice versa in small-scale fisheries. The
project interrogates how poverty can be alleviated while maintaining a
healthy ecosystem at the same time. The project aims to study how poor
communities cope, individually and collectively, with maintaining
sustainable livelihoods through periods of resources crisis. Focus is
on institutions at various levels that enable collective action in
communities for dealing with resource crisis. In particular, the
project investigates the capacity of institutions for poverty
alleviation, resources stewardship and empowerment of the poor.
Although the main focus is on the south (the project has case studies
from Africa, Asia and South America) where poverty in small-scale
fisheries is most widespread, the management challenge is general.
There are therefore also lessons to be learnt from crisis-ridden
fishing communities in the north (through a number of cases from the
north). PLAAS is participating in the POVFISH project through two cases, one in South Africa (Dr. Moenieba Isaacs) and another in Malawi on the Southeast Arm of Lake Malawi (Dr. Mafaniso Hara). The project is coordinated by the Ma-Re-Ma Centre, Norwegian College of Fishery Science at University of Tromsø . More information can be found on the Ma-Re-Ma website. |
| This project is funded by Norwegian Research Council. The duration of the project is from March 2008 to December 2010. |
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