Co-Management: A Potential Tool to Promote Gender Equity in Fisheries
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Fishing is often considered a male activity throughout the world. Estimates indicate, however, that women represent 47% of the global fisheries’ workforce, encompassing about about 56 million jobs in the harvest and post-harvest subsectors. Nevertheless, the role of women in fisheries is often unrecognized, overlooked, and underpaid worldwide. Here, we evaluated the potential of a fisheries co-management scheme to substantially increase the access of women to fishing income, and to consequently enhance female recognition and empowerment. The scheme in focus was the arapaima (Arapaima sp .) co-management, a fishery scheme occurring in the Brazilian Amazon since the 2000s.
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http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6670
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Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance -- Global Knowledge Symposium UN New York 2019
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Amazon Basin, Brazil