Tools for Understanding the Complexities of Small-Scale Coastal Fisheries Economies in Northeastern Brazil: Participatory Value Chain Mapping and Economic Feasibility Studies

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In developing countries the framework for institutional engagement in small-scale fishing communities needs to consider the regional, social, economic and environmental complexities of informal resourcebased economies. The combination of socio-economic trajectory of artisanal fisherfolks, their relationship with the environment, the economic pressures and the public policy framework, which often regarded fishing communities as desolate and in a permanent state of deficiency, resulted in a paradigm that reinforced social exclusion and further degradation of the environment. This context is further aggravated by gender inequalities, which turn the role of fisherwomen in small scale fisheries and community development invisible. Within this negatively charged context, the challenge of fostering a socially just, environmentally sustainable and economically viable livelihood relies on institutional interventions that are able to identify the endogenous potential for change within the commun

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