Artisanal fishing communities include some of the "poorest of the poor". In the past 40 years, strategies that have targeted the harvesting sector of such communities have often failed to address their chronic problems of poverty. Using data from gill net fishers in Malaysia, the paper presents...

An important aim of fishery management is the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fish stocks whereas maximization of profit is the aim of fishermen. At first view this seems to be contradictory. The main management tools for stock exploitation are fishing effort (summarizing all effort...

Sustainable food policies strive for environmental, healthy, economically just, and humane food production. Their success has ignited legal debates about the Constitution. This is not new. Iconic constitutional law cases examine sustainable food, such as meat in the Slaughter-House Cases (1873),...

Fish stock depletion in the world's oceans and seas is one of the world's most serious environmental problems. In light of Greece's less than compliant State practice toward fishery management and conservation, this paper explores whether co-managed Fishery Protected Areas (FPAs) are an...

How can policy makers successfully implement the policy changes needed to achieve greater economic, social, and environmental sustainability and resilience? This report combines lessons from the available literature, discussions with experts and stakeholders, as well as information on past...

Sustainable development is a key theme in policy making in Norway. Although it owes a considerable part of its wealth to the carbon-based economy, Norway gives priority to the objectives embodied in the OECD Green Growth Strategy and sees itself as a pioneer in some areas. The sustainable...

This report is part of an ongoing annual series of reports on Fixing the Business of Food initiated and actively supported by the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (BCFN). The report is the product of a team including BCFN, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) at Columbia...

The paper exposed the extent of non maintenance culture in Nigeria which has rendered many useful investments such as road network, buildings, plants, industries and other infrastructures useless to the extent of inability to support production capable of enhancing sustainable development. It...

The situation of relative water scarcity becomes a classic problem in developing countries. This issue is not about the absence of water, but rather about the inequality with regard to access to water. Scarcity of water is a part of daily life for some though the area of abundant water...