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Report of the Workshop on Gender Roles and Issues in Artisanal Fisheries in West Africa, Lome, Togo, 11-13 December 1996

Year of publication 1997

Pages 47

Author B.W. Horemans, A.M Jallow;Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Product type Book (series)

Series number No.97

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The workshop was conducted to draw attention to the state of knowledge related to gender roles and issues in the artisanal fisheries sector in the region covered by the IDAF programme. The documents presented at the meeting are summaries of indvidual reports published by the IDAF programme, which covered 5 complementary studies analyzing: 1) income generated by women in the Koko fishing community of Nigeria; 2) the organization of women and the factors that favour or impede the sustainability of their activities in 2 fishing villages in the Gambia; 3) the nutritional hygiene and sanitation conditions of women and children in the fishing communities of Joal in Senegal and Limbe in Cameroon; and, 4) the elements and mechanisms of the participation of women in the implementation of the integrated project of Aguegues in Benin. Abstracts of the documents presented at the meeting, which have not yet been published, are cited individually in this issue of ASFA.

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Horemans, B.W., and Jallow, A M., (eds) 1997. Report of the Workshop on Gender Roles and Issues in Artisanal Fisheries in West Africa, Lomé, Togo, 11 - 13 December 1996. Cotonou, Benin, Programme for the Integrated Development of Artisanal Fisheries in West Africa. 47p., IDAF/WP/97.

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