scholarly journals COVID-19 and Small-Scale Fisheries in Southeast Asia: Impacts and Responses

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
ALICE JOAN G. FERRER ◽  
ROBERT POMEROY ◽  
MICHAEL J. AKESTER ◽  
UMI MUAWANAH ◽  
WATCHARAPONG CHUMCHUEN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries

This paper describes the impacts of and responses to COVID-19 of small-scale fisheries in six selected countries in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. The paper used a structured case study approach to analyse the impacts and responses and relied heavily on existing reports and data sources in each country. The pandemic has further revealed the vulnerability of small-scale fishing households in the region. Given the few assets of fisher households, their ability to cushion the negative impact of crises and shocks is limited. Fishers made adaptive responses such as direct fish marketing, online marketing, and home delivery services. While short-term responses of providing food and financial assistance have been helpful, long-term support to address pandemics such as COVID-19 and other stressors will require developing more resilient fishing households. The paper recommends several approaches and interventions to improve household resilience and to be better prepared for similar challenges and threats in the future. These include: i) strengthening the fishing households’ social network of friends, relatives, and neighbours to serve as both a social safety net and a bridge towards the transition to financial inclusion; ii) diversifying livelihood to reduce dependency on the fishery and provide for additional sources of income and food; iii) promoting financial inclusion through savings, credit, digital payment products, and insurance; iv) value chain upgrading through post-harvest fish handling and processing methods; and, v) providing access, especially for women, to social protection measures such as government health insurance and social security.

scholarly journals The Processing of Non-Timber Forest Products through Small and Medium Enterprises—A Review of Enabling and Constraining Factors

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meinhold ◽  
Darr
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Cash Income ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Current Evidence Base ◽  
Non Timber Forest Products

Research Highlights: This study reviews the available literature on processed non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in order to comprehensively identify relevant factors enabling or constraining their potential to contribute to rural development. Background and Objectives: NTFPs, such as wild foods, medicinal plants, and raw materials for handicrafts, make significant contributions to rural livelihoods. NTFPs can help fulfil households' subsistence and consumption needs, serve as a safety-net in times of crises, and provide cash income. In particular, the processing of NTFPs has often been suggested to positively influence sustainable economic development in rural areas. However, despite rising interest and recognition of the potential contributions of such industries as key sources of employment and their strategic role in overall growth strategies of developing countries, many NTFP processing enterprises remain in the informal sector and an in-depth understanding of the underlying factors is lacking. This review aims to identify enabling and constraining factors affecting NTFP processing enterprises. Materials and Methods: Using systematic review methodology, studies investigating commercialized, processed NTFPs and their economic impacts have been identified and the current evidence base with regard to NTFP processing and small and medium sized enterprise (SME) development synthesized. Results: Despite the diverse nature of NTFPs, a number of constraining and enabling factors affecting NTFP processing and commercialization were identified. The former includes aspects such as the lack of resource access (finances, skills, technologies, etc.), market information, and basic infrastructure; the latter, amongst others, the role of key entrepreneurs; and cooperation across the value chain, amongst producers, and among members of the institutional environment or an abundant resource base. Moving from small-scale NTFP commercialization in local markets to more mature NTFP value chains reaching export markets, the increasing role of cooperation and having a supportive institutional framework in place, becomes apparent. Conclusions: Overall, successful NTFP processing strongly depends on the socio-economic and environmental context in question, requiring a holistic approach tailored to the respective context and value chain.

Actors’ perceptions of government performance in support of value chain development in marine small-scale fisheries in Kenya

Marine Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 104221
Author(s):  
Patrick Kimani ◽  
Andrew Wamukota ◽  
Julius O. Manyala ◽  
Chrisestom Mwatete Mlewa
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Government Performance ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries

Factors influencing financial performance in marine small-scale fisheries value chain in Kenya

Marine Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 104218
Author(s):  
Patrick Kimani ◽  
Andrew Wamukota ◽  
Julius O. Manyala ◽  
Chrisestom Mwatete Mlewa
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries ◽  
Factors Influencing

scholarly journals Distribution of economic returns in small-scale fisheries for international markets: A value-chain analysis

Marine Policy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven W. Purcell ◽  
Beatrice I. Crona ◽  
Watisoni Lalavanua ◽  
Hampus Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Value Chain Analysis ◽  
Economic Returns ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries ◽  
A Value ◽  
Chain Analysis

scholarly journals Value chain analysis of small-scale fisheries in the High Dam Lake in Egypt

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
M. Nasr-Allah Ahmed ◽  
A. Habib Olfat ◽  
W. Dickson Malcolm ◽  
Charo-Karisa Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Value Chain Analysis ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries ◽  
Chain Analysis ◽  
High Dam Lake

scholarly journals Co-governance and upgrading in the South African small-scale fisheries value chain

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten R. Wentink ◽  
Serge Raemaekers ◽  
Simon R. Bush
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The South ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries

scholarly journals Inclusion of disabled people in microfinance institutions: Where does Bangladesh stand?

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debashis Sarker
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
The Status

This article constitutes a summary of the literatures and practices on the microfinance industry and its contribution, the status of people with disabilities (PWDs), and the case studies for financial inclusion in Bangladesh. Many Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are operating to serve all segments of the clients for financial inclusion. People with Disabilities encounter several exclusions in the mainstream microfinance institutions in Bangladesh. At the same time, MFIs faces numerous challenges to serve these people. Even if it is not a formal analysis, it is still found that PWDs encounter tremendous discrimination such as social, political, physical, cultural, environmental; serious barriers including formal and self-employment, less access to credit, government support and social safety net system. On the other hand, these people often put themselves into ‘benefit traps’. Microfinance institutions do not realize that many disabled people are economically active, that disabled customers expect service, and do not know how to adapt products for disabled people. The profitable partnership between MFIs and Disabled People’s Organization (DPOs) are absent in practice. The government’s social safety nets programme is also very limited. Economic rehabilitation would come into progress when integration happens by blending social protection and necessary resources for income generation.

scholarly journals Toward Sustainability of South African Small-Scale Fisheries Leveraging ICT Transformation Pathways

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 743
Author(s):  
Tsele T. Nthane ◽  
Fred Saunders ◽  
Gloria L. Gallardo Fernández ◽  
Serge Raemaekers
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
South African ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Power Parity ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries ◽  
Participatory Workshop ◽  
Transformation Pathways ◽  
Institutional Sustainability

Though Internet and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been employed in small-scale fisheries (SSFs) globally, they are seldom systematically explored for the ways in which they facilitate equality, democracy and sustainability. Our study explored how ICTs in South African small-scale fisheries are leveraged towards value chain upgrading, collective action and institutional sustainability—key issues that influence small-scale fishery contributions to marine resource sustainability. We held a participatory workshop as part of ongoing research in the town of Lambert’s Bay, South Africa, in collaboration with small-scale fishers and the Abalobi ICT project. We mapped fisher value chain challenges and explored the role of ICT-driven transformation pathways, adopting Wright’s ‘Real Utopian’ framework as the lens through which to explore equality, democracy and institutional sustainability. We found Abalobi’s ICT platform had the potential to facilitate deeper meanings of democracy that incorporate socio-economic reform, collective action and institutional sustainability in South Africa’s small-scale fisheries. Where fishers are not engaged beyond passive generators of data, this had the potential to undermine the goals of increasing power parity between small-scale fisheries and other stakeholders.

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