Technical Support for Institutional and Capacity Enhancement on Gender-Sensitive Fisheries Management and Conservation - TCP/CMB/3705

Technical Support for Institutional and Capacity Enhancement on Gender-Sensitive Fisheries Management and Conservation - TCP/CMB/3705

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 10

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

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Synopsis (short abstract) Fisheries are critically important for Cambodia With about 32 percent of the country consisting of either permanent or seasonal wetlands, and 435 km of coastline along estuaries, bays and islands, fisheries make a large contribution to diet and livelihoods In terms of food security, the apparent annual per capita consumption of fish is estimated to be 52 kg and as high as 76 kg in flood plain areas, representing about 70 percent of Cambodia’s intake of animal protein Overall, around 6 million people are involved in fisheries, around 50 percent of them are women, assuming major roles in cleaning, sorting and grading fish catches, although precise analysis on gender and child labour roles and involvement is still lacking and there is a recognized need to collect more sex disaggregated and gender specific data and information At present, it is estimated that 70 percent of Cambodian women and 59 percent of men are engaged in vulnerable employment, often in the agricultural sector, including fisheries Rural women often play a double role when contributing to household livelihoods, in reproductive and productive tasks (often unpaid) through the fish value chain.

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