2011
DOI: 10.1002/jid.1638
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Vulnerability in African small-scale fishing communities

Abstract: Fishing communities are often recognised as being amongst the poorest in developing countries, and interventions targeted at improving resource status seen as central in the fight against poverty. A series of field assessments focusing on vulnerability conducted in two communities in Mali and Nigeria revealed some counterintuitive results. Despite fishing being the primary livelihood, vulnerabilities relating directly to the state of the resource were ranked lower than those relating to basic human needs. Thos… Show more

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“…Rather, livelihood stressors arise from socioeconomic (e.g., disease, theft, and food insecurity) and ecological (e.g., severe storms or drought) sources. These results build on the work of Mills et al (2011), who demonstrate that fishing communities in Mali and Nigeria rank vulnerabilities related to basic human needs as more critical than vulnerabilities relating to the fishery.…”
Section: Livelihood Stressorssupporting
confidence: 59%
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“…Rather, livelihood stressors arise from socioeconomic (e.g., disease, theft, and food insecurity) and ecological (e.g., severe storms or drought) sources. These results build on the work of Mills et al (2011), who demonstrate that fishing communities in Mali and Nigeria rank vulnerabilities related to basic human needs as more critical than vulnerabilities relating to the fishery.…”
Section: Livelihood Stressorssupporting
confidence: 59%
“…Many of the factors that inhibit adaptation in our two research communities (e.g., limited assets, competition over declining resources, and pervasive poverty) are indicators of problems that run deeper. Therefore, our results suggest that nonsectoral interventions that build human and social capital may be more effective in strengthening the livelihoods of coastal communities than those targeting fishing assets alone (Mills et al 2011).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 78%
“…of men that were interviewed No. of women that were interviewed [41,43] Education Education level of the interviewee [44] Household income from fishing Average daily catch (kg/day) × fish price ($1.50/kg) [22,41,45,46] Livelihood Activities Dependence on fisheries, fish gear making, aquaculture [24,41,45,[47][48][49] Assets Fishing gear, boats, fishing permit, crop field, livestock (cattle, goats, chicken) [9,22,40,41,50] Fishing gear access Places where fishers go to access fishing gear [42,51] Fish processing (post-harvest losses)…”
Section: Sexmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, increasing prices for fuel have led to reduced fishing days (Tuler et al 2008;Bunce et al 2010b). These impacts are exacerbated for marginalized coastal people, including migrant and subsistence fishers, who typically do not have access to credit (Mills et al 2011;Blythe et al 2014). In some areas, declining prices for marine products are reducing fishers' income and driving increasing fishing pressure (Bennett et al 2014b).…”
Section: Economicmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Resilience scholars suggest that organizational and institutional learning, diversity of livelihoods and knowledge, access to assets and adaptive co-management processes decrease vulnerability Cinner et al 2009;Bennett et al 2014a). Mills et al (2011) propose that non-sectoral interventions, such as improved community sanitation, might have the greatest effect on reducing vulnerability for the most people. However, it will often be necessary to recognize and make trade-offs in order to identify ''least-harm'' adaptations that will lead to the most beneficial outcomes.…”
Section: Identifying and Prioritizing Adaptationsmentioning
confidence: 99%