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FISHERIES

Empowering Women in Small-Scale Fisheries for Sustainable Food Systems (2020-2021)

Malawi, 2020 - 2021
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MWI_2020-2021_EWSFSFS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
Producer(s)
Nicole Franz, Lena Westlund, Molly Ahern
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Fishery Surveys
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Feb 06, 2023
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1.4.2.1 Can you tell me something from your experience about small scale fisheries women access to productive assets? (x1_4_2_1_can_you_tell_me_som)

Data file: data_anon_kii

Overview

Valid: 10
Type: Discrete
Width: 255
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
- Common assets owned or accessed by women includes; drying lacks, Basin, Frying pans, packing materials for processing fish. Most Solar tent driers are not functional. In Chipoka stratum, some storage facilities, washing bay and smoking kilns are not 1
10%
- Only one woman has fishing Net in the area, the rest are men. - Women are able to access drying lacks, Smoking kiln, Basin, Frying pans, packing materials for processing fish. 1
10%
- Progress show increase in number of women accessing productive assets. Women now own and access fishing gear and have boats, engine, or nets. - In Annual FRAME Survey Report 2019 shows percentage of women owning fishing assets is increasing. 1
10%
- The productive assets that most women have access to are in relation to their involvement in the other segments of the fisheries value chain other than fishing itself. 1
10%
- Very few women own fishing boats or nets, not more than 3 that I know. - Most women have fish processing facilities like open drying lacks and fryin pans. 1
10%
- Women access productive assets through different means such as inheriting from parents or husbands and some women access the assets through procuring the assets themselves. 1
10%
- Women mostly have access to drying lacks, lending of land along the beaches for drying lacks, labour for construction of drying lacks, utensils for para-boiling and other asset for processing fish. However these are of low value as compared to those t 1
10%
- Mostly single women or women headed households have assets, fishing units, motorized boats, nets, engines but very few. But employ men who does fishing. - Fishing is still male dominated field, because of its nature and cultural, religious beliefs 1
10%
- Some women have access to pdoductive assets such as motorized boats, nets, engines and fish driers but very few in numbers, only around 10% of those born along lake shore areas. - Those with access to productive assets usually employ men to do the 1
10%
Not many women have productive assets. Few have and can access; fishing units, motorized boats, nets and engines, baskets. Those that have will also employ men who does fishing. Fishing is still male dominated field, because of its nature and cultural 1
10%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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