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Microfinance helps poverty reduction and fisheries management
Topic : Microfinance
The aim of this policy brief is to:
- Analyze trends in thinking and practice on finance for poverty reduction
- Examine how small-scale fisherfolk use financial services, with a focus on West Africa
- Identify the main issues and challenges in providing microfinancial services to fishing communities
- Show that microfinance can be used to support fisheries management
- Outline recommendations to improve the availability of suitable financial services in small-scale fisheries
- Resource type Document
- Author Programme de la FAO pour des moyens d’existence durables dans la pêche (DFID/FAO)
- OrganisationFAO
- Year of Publication2006
- RegionGlobal
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages8 pp.
- EditionNew Directions in Fisheries
- Keywords Livelihoods, Fisheries Sector, Financial Services