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1 Sri Lanka. Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. 1998. Ministry of Agriculture and Lands 50th commemorative volume. Volume I. Battaramulla, Sri Lanka: The Ministry. xvi, 150p.
Agricultural development ; Assessment ; Agricultural policy ; Institutions ; Agricultural production ; Field crops ; Agricultural research ; Export ; Land management ; Settlement ; Land use ; Surveys ; Mapping ; Agricultural financial policy ; Farmers ; Farming ; Fertilizers ; Research institutes ; Rice ; Marketing ; Development aid / Sri Lanka
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.1 G744 SRI Record No: H025865)
2 Geheb, Kim; Kalloch, S.; Medard, M.; Nyapendi, A. T.; Lwenya, C.; Kyangwa, M. 2008. Nile perch and the hungry of Lake Victoria: Gender, status and food in an East African fishery. Food Policy, 33(1):85-98.
Lakes ; Fisheries ; Fishery management ; Social aspects ; Malnutrition ; Income ; Fishermen ; Gender ; Labor ; Women ; Export ; Constraints ; Poverty ; Households / Africa / Tanzania / Uganda / Lake Victoria
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 639.2 G100 GEH Record No: H040618)
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Lake Victoria supports Africa’s largest inland fishery, and its most valuable product is the Nile perch, much of which is exported. This has given rise to arguments claiming a direct linear relationship between perch exports and disturbingly high rates of malnutrition along the lake’s shores. In this paper, we argue that this argument is seriously flawed for it is unable to explain how it is that the income from the Nile perch fishery fails to translate into a well-fed riparian population. We draw on field work carried out in 2001 that (a) set out to establish exactly how much malnutrition there was on the lake’s shores; and (b) sought to identify hat happened to the income the fishery generates. We argue that because men control much of the fishery, and women are held responsible for the upkeep of their families, little of this income makes its way back into the households of the region, giving rise to the levels of malnutrition we observed.
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