Agricultural extension and fishery development: training for women in fish industry in Lagos - State, Nigeria

Adeokun, O. A.; Adereti, F. O.

doi:10.4314/jasr.v3i2.2795

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“…In other case studies of small-scale fisheries, women respondents reported a preference for talking to someone of their own gender (Adeokun and Adereti 2003), so in this study the gender of the research assistant was matched to the gender of the respondent. In 14 cases, interviews were removed because of insufficient or unreliable data.…”

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Improving fisheries estimates by including women’s catch in the Central Philippines

KleiberDanika

Harris

VincentAmanda

2014

Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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Small-scale fisheries catch and effort estimates are often built on incomplete data because they overlook the fishing of minority or marginalized groups. Women do participate in small-scale fisheries and often in ways distinct from men's fishing. Hence, the inclusion of women's fishing is necessary to understanding the diversity and totality of human fishing efforts. This case study examines how the inclusion of women's fishing alters the enumeration of fishers and estimations of catch mass, fishing effort, and targeted organisms in 12 communities in the Central Philippines. Women were 42% of all fishers and contributed approximately one-quarter of the fishing effort and catch mass. Narrower definitions of fishing that excluded gleaning (gathering of benthic macroinvertebrates in intertidal areas) and part-time fishing masked the participation and contribution of most women fishers. In this case study, it is clear that overlooking women and part-time or gleaning fishers led to the underestimation of fishing effort and catch mass. Overlooking gleaning had also led to underestimation of shells and other benthic macroinvertebrates in fishing catches.

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Section: Fisher Interviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving fisheries estimates by including women’s catch in the Central Philippines

KleiberDanika

Harris

VincentAmanda

2014

Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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“…In many cultures, it is not socially acceptable for unrelated men and women to talk to one another and in other cases respondents may simply be more comfortable with an interviewer of the same gender. In Nigeria, where fisheries officers were predominantly men, women stated that they preferred talking to women officers (Adeokun and Adereti 2003). These gender gaps can have implications for data collection, misrepresentation of the issues of importance, and can also negatively affect conservation and management efforts.…”

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Gender and small‐scale fisheries: a case for counting women and beyond

2014

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Marine ecosystem-scale fisheries research and management must include the fishing effort of women and men. Even with growing recognition that women do fish, there remains an imperative to engage in more meaningful and relevant gender analysis to improve socio-ecological approaches to fisheries research and management. The implications of a gender approach to fisheries have been explored in social approaches to fisheries, but the relevance of gender analysis for ecological understandings has yet to be fully elaborated. To examine the importance of gender to the understanding of marine ecology, we identified 106 case studies of small-scale fisheries from the last 20 years that detail the participation of women in fishing (data on women fishers being the most common limiting factor to gender analysis). We found that beyond gender difference in fishing practices throughout the world, the literature reveals a quantitative data gap in the characterization of gender in small-scale fisheries. The descriptive details of women's often distinct fishing practices nonetheless provide important ecological information with implications for understanding the human role in marine ecosystems. Finally, we examined why the data gap on women's fishing practices has persisted, detailing several ways in which commonly used research methods may perpetuate biased sampling that overlooks women's fishing. This review sheds light on a new aspect of the application of gender research to fisheries research, with an emphasis on ecological understanding within a broader context of interdisciplinary approaches.

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A review of gender inequality and women’s empowerment in aquaculture using the reach-benefit-empower-transform framework approach: A case study of Nigeria

Adam¹,

Njogu²

2023

Front. Aquac.

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Along the aquaculture value chain, what is the status of gender equality and women’s empowerment with a particular emphasis on aquaculture? What can be done to bring about gender equality and women’s empowerment in the aquaculture sector? This article explores these questions through a systematic review of the extant literature on gender and aquaculture using Nigeria as a case study. A total of 78 articles are analyzed based on the reach-benefit-empower-transform framework. The findings show that there is gender inequality within the aquaculture value chain. In most cases, women are mainly concentrated at the nodes of the value chain, which require fewer resources to operate; furthermore, in most cases, women earn less profits compared with their male counterparts. Women’s empowerment is still at the nascent stages, while gender related transformation has yet to take root. We recommend that pro-equality gender policies in aquaculture be created and implemented. This calls for the collection and use of sex-disaggregated data and for work at the grassroots level to ensure that the manner in which women, men, boys and girls are treated and allowed to live and function in the communities they reside engenders development, harmony, gender equality and prosperity. Finally, we recommend that the reach-benefit-empower-transform framework be expanded to facilitate the evaluation of program/project-based studies.

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Agricultural extension and fishery development: training for women in fish industry in Lagos - State, Nigeria

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Improving fisheries estimates by including women’s catch in the Central Philippines

Improving fisheries estimates by including women’s catch in the Central Philippines

Gender and small‐scale fisheries: a case for counting women and beyond

A review of gender inequality and women’s empowerment in aquaculture using the reach-benefit-empower-transform framework approach: A case study of Nigeria

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