Poverty and Small-scale Fisheries in West Africa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Arthur E. Neiland, Christophe Béné

      Pages 1-6

3. Understanding Poverty in Rural Africa

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. The Nature and Causes of Poverty: An Overview

      • Andy Thorpe

      Pages 9-36

   3. The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach: The Importance of Policies, Institutions and Process

      • Roger Lewins

      Pages 37-45

   4. Some Poverty Approaches and their Applications to Senegal

      • Jean-Paul Minvielle

      Pages 47-58

4. Fisheries Management and Poverty

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Poverty in Small-scale Fisheries: A Review and Some Further Thoughts

      • Christophe Béné

      Pages 61-82

   3. The Challenge of Managing Small-scale Fisheries with Reference to Poverty Alleviation

      • Christophe Béné, Elizabeth Bennett, Arthur Neiland

      Pages 83-102

   4. Poverty Profiles of Artisanal Fishers: Methods Based on the SLA Model

      • Fabio Pittaluga, Emily Corcoran, Jean Senahoun

      Pages 103-119

   5. The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach and the Improvement of the Living Conditions of Fishing Communities: Relevance, Applicability and Applications

      • Pierre Failler, Abou Kane

      Pages 121-149

   6. Fisheries Co-Management and Poverty Alleviation in the Context of the Sustainable Livelihood Approach: A Case Study in the Fishing Communities of Aby Lagoon in Côte d’Ivoire

      • Benedict P. Satia, Oumarou Njifonjou, Konan Angaman

      Pages 151-170

   7. Socio-Economic Impacts of Different Fisheries Management Strategies at the Local Level

      • Alhaji Jallow, Momodou Njie

      Pages 171-185

5. Poverty Alleviation in Fisheries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Fisheries Development, Poverty Alleviation and Small-Scale Fisheries: A Review of Policy and Performance in Developing Countries Since 1950

      • Arthur E. Neiland

      Pages 189-208

   3. Fisheries Management, Poverty Alleviation and the Implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries

      • David J. Doulman

      Pages 209-227

   4. The Work of the Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (SFLP) in West Africa

      • Benoît Horemans

      Pages 229-243

   5. Poverty in Coastal Fishing Communities

      • Rolf Willmann

      Pages 245-252

This book arises from case studies and two back-to-back workshops held in Cotonou, Benin in November 2001. They were the combination of much experience and knowledge gathered in the West Africa region and were brought about to explore the concept of poverty, especially how it is a part of the life of fishing communities and our ways of thinking about resolving the issue. The workshops were conceived as a partnership between the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (F AO) and 25 countries of West Africa, working together through the Sustainable Fisheries Livelihood Programme (SFLP) to join forces with the Centre for the Economics and Management of Aquatic Resources (CEMARE). The SFLP, with its remit of poverty alleviation in West African artisanal fisheries communities through better governance and improved policies to involve communities in management of the resources on which their livelihoods depend, had quickly realised that it needed to define what and whom it was targeting. In this respect, the two large back-to-back workshops marked a milestone for the SFLP. Those participating in the workshop soon emphasised that we need to push forward our ideas from the previous simplistic "less than a dollar a day" type definitions to show that poverty is multi-faceted and a dynamic feature of human society.

• Fisheries
• Fisheries management
• Institution
• Nation
• Policy
• development
• organization

• Centre for the Economics and Management of Aquatic Resources (CEMARE), Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

  Arthur E. Neiland, Christophe Béné

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