Partners:

Community Development Centre; Chittagong, Bangladesh
University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Problem:

The project was commissioned in order to address the problem of how to generate and apply new knowledge to the utilisation for human consumption of fish from coastal fisheries in South Asia and coastal and inland fisheries in East and West Africa

Achievements:

1. A practical method for generating new knowledge and understanding, integrating market and credit analysis techniques with a livelihoods approach in a post-harvest fisheries context.

As part of this output the following methodology has been published: 

U Kleih, P Greenhalgh, N Oudwater (2003), A Guide to the Analysis of Fish Marketing Systems Using a Combination of Sub-sector Analysis and the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach, Chatham, UK: Natural Resources Institute. ISBN 085954 522-0.

In addition to integrating sub-sector analysis with the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach in a post-harvest fisheries context, the guide provides practical examples of the use of both participatory and questionnaire type survey methods.

2. An improved understanding of livelihoods in coastal fishing communities and the marine fish distribution system in Bangladesh, with emphasis on market and credit access issues.


3. Policy recommendations, benefiting the poor in coastal fishing communities and the fish distribution chain in Bangladesh.