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Seminar

Governing fisheries for food security

Eddie Allison, WorldFish Center

Where: Townsville: Sir George Fisher Research Building Conference Room 114 (B32 upstairs)

When: 12.00pm, Monday 19 September 2011

Eddie’s current research explores the relationships between fisherfolks’ poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion in the small-scale fisheries of coastal and inland waters, and how this impacts on their engagement with decentralised governance and increasing integration with global markets. Specific research foci include the implications of livelihood diversification and geographical mobility for decentralised or community-based management, and the impacts of HIV/AIDS and climate change on fishing-based livelihoods. Eddie is using these analyses to address broader questions of adaptation and risk in livelihood systems and to inform the direction of fisheries policy at global and regional scales. Much of my research has been conducted in partnership with aid agencies and their partners in NGOs and government institutions and is initially targeted at decision-makers and their advisors.