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Women in fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region: Roles, challenges and opportunities

Merayo, Eugenia and Vakhitova, Valeriia and Carlson, Anna (2024) Women in fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region: Roles, challenges and opportunities. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome. ISBN ISBN 978-92-5-138615-6

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Abstract

Women play active roles throughout the fisheries value chain in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, including participating in pre-harvest activities like vessel and gear construction and maintenance, harvest activities both on board fishing vessels and from shore, and post-harvest activities such as sorting, cleaning, processing and marketing the catch, as well as in activities associated with running the fishing business, such as bookkeeping. Furthermore, women are actively engaged throughout the region in fisheries research and fisheries administrations. Despite the wide and varied roles played by women in fisheries, their contributions to the sector are often not captured in official statistics and can therefore go unrecognized, reinforcing existing gender inequalities and potentially leading to inadvertent discrimination. At the same time, a lack of consideration of women working in the sector can also mean that their knowledge and experience is overlooked and not sufficiently profited from. Recognizing the importance of taking the roles, needs and experiences of women into account when addressing social, economic and environmental issues related to the fishing sector, this study aims at narrowing research gaps in the region regarding gender and fisheries, as well as supporting the commitments of Mediterranean and Black Sea countries to promoting gender equality

Item Type: Books
Keywords: Mediterranean, Black Sea, Value chain, Gender, Inequalities, Statistics, Harvesting, Equality, Women, Working Conditions, Fishing Communities, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects: Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User: Vivek D ICSF
Date Deposited: 26 Mar 2024 07:22
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2024 07:25
URI: http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/20110

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