Proximity to small-scale inland and coastal fisheries is associated with improved income and food security
Simmance, Fiona A., Nico, Gianluigi, Funge-Smith, Simon, Basurto, Xavier, Franz, Nicole, Teoh, Shwu J., Byrd, Kendra A., Kolding, Jeppe, Ahern, Molly, Cohen, Philippa J., Nankwenya, Bonface, Gondwe, Edith, Virdin, John, Chimatiro, Sloans, Nagoli, Joseph, Kaunda, Emmanuel, Thilsted, Shakuntala H., and Mills, David J. (2022) Proximity to small-scale inland and coastal fisheries is associated with improved income and food security. Communications Earth & Environment, 3. 174.
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Abstract
Poverty and food insecurity persist in sub-Saharan Africa. We conducted a secondary analysis of nationally representative data from three sub-Saharan Africa countries (Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda) to investigate how both proximity to and engagement with small-scale fisheries are associated with household poverty and food insecurity. Results from the analysis suggest that households engaged in small-scale fisheries were 9 percentage points less likely to be poor than households engaged only in agriculture. Households living in proximity to small-scale fisheries (average distance 2.7 km) were 12.6 percentage points more likely to achieve adequate food security and were 15 percentage points less likely to be income poor, compared to the most distant households. Households distant from fishing grounds (>5 km) were 1.5 times more likely to consume dried fish compared to households living close. Conserving the flow of benefits from small-scale fisheries is important for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals in the region.
| Item ID: | 76358 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2662-4435 |
| Copyright Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2023 00:54 |
| FoR Codes: | 30 AGRICULTURAL, VETERINARY AND FOOD SCIENCES > 3005 Fisheries sciences > 300501 Aquaculture @ 100% |
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