Finding a balance between poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability can be a delicate proposition...If you fish to eat, not fishing means starvation; however, if, by fishing, the ecosystem is degraded, a fisher may find him or herself in the very same predicament.
A major international project, PovFish, is shedding light on local, often grass-roots, solutions to poverty problem in small-scale fisheries based on case studies from around the globe. The project aims to link the effects that environmental insecurity and degradation have on poverty and food security, and vice versa.
We're very pleased to announce that the PovFish project, led by Professors Svein Jentoft and Arne Eide at the MaReMa Centre, Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Norway, will be at the 2010 WSFC along with the research team members from Asia, Africa, North America and Europe to present their work at the 2010 WSFC on Tuesday October 19th and Wednesday 20th.
For more information on the project, please take a look at the website here.
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