Trends in Poverty and Livelihoods in Coastal Fishing Communities of Orissa State, India
Trends in Poverty and Livelihoods in Coastal Fishing Communities of Orissa State, India

Author: Venkatesh Salagrama

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9789251055663

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This study analyses the livelihoods of marine fishing communities in the Indian coastal state of Orissa using the sustainable livelihoods approach. It investigates the relationships between livelihoods and coastal poverty and seeks to develop simple qualitative indicators to monitor the changes in these relationships over time. The key trends affecting the livelihoods of the poor in the coastal fishing communities in Orissa range across the whole spectrum of "assets" - i.e. the natural, physical, social, human and financial - and contribute to changes in terms of availability as well as access to the assets for the poorer stakeholders. This paper also examines the impact of seasonality and shocks upon the fisheries-based livelihoods and the importance and influence of various policies, institutions and processes in addressing the fishers' need to cope with their vulnerability context in a meaningful manner. It summarizes the various factors having an impact upon the livelihoods of the fishers and develops them into simple indicators relevant in assessing the changing patterns of poverty in fishing communities of Orissa.

Agile Hands and Creative Minds
Agile Hands and Creative Minds

Author: Donald Clay Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13:

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This comprehensive work focuses on literature relating to the textile traditions of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Indexes by author, museum, geographic location, and subject allow immediate access to relevant sources. This comprehensive work focuses on literature relating to the textile traditions of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Indexes by author, museum, geographic location, and subject allow immediate access to relevant sources.

Princely States of India
Princely States of India

Author: David P. Henige

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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In providing a carefully assembled chronology of the 290 most significant of the 600 states in India, the author provides new research for all scholars of South Asia, as well as Sikkim and the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, in the colonial period.

Human Dimensions of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
Human Dimensions of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

Author: Cassandra De Young

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9789251060001

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This document aims to provide a better understanding of the role of the economic, institutional and sociocultural components within the ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) process and to examine some potential methods and approaches that may facilitate the adoption of EAF management. It explores both the human context for the ecosystem approach to fisheries and the human dimensions involved in implementing the EAF. For the former, the report provides background material essential to understand prior to embarking on EAF initiatives, including an understanding of key concepts and issues, of the valuation of aquatic ecosystems socially, culturally and economically, and of the many policy, legal, institutional, social and economic considerations relevant to the EAF. With respect to facilitating EAF implementation, the report deals with a series of specific aspects: (1) determining the boundaries, scale and scope of the EAF; (2) assessing the various benefits and costs involved, seen from social, economic, ecological and management perspectives; (3) utilizing appropriate decision-making tools in EAF; (4) creating and/or adopting internal incentives and institutional arrangements to promote, facilitate and fund the adoption of EAF management; and (5) finding suitable external (non-fisheries) approaches for financing EAF implementation.