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Vulnerability in African small-scale fishing communities

✍ Scribed by David Mills; Christophe Béné; Solomon Ovie; Ahmadu Tafida; Famory Sinaba; Amaga Kodio; Aaron Russell; Neil Andrew; Pierre Morand; Jacques Lemoalle

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
506 KB
Volume
23
Category
Article
ISSN
0954-1748

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✦ Synopsis

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. Those results challenge the conventional view and suggest that non-sectoral interventions can have more effective impacts on the livelihood of those communities than interventions targeting the resources.

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