Overall (formal):
- What actions are needed in order to break the vicious circle of poverty and transform into a good circle?
- What conditions (social, political, legal, cultural, organizational and economic) are essential for this to happen?
Specific (substantive):
- Under what conditions are small-scale fisheries environmentally sustainable or destructive?
- How does the vicious (cumulative) process of poverty unfold?
- What are the detectable ecological and socio-economic impacts of over-extraction?
- What is the role of civil society institutions, like local communities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in marine and coastal management and poverty alleviation?
- How do governmental initiatives and policies enable or restrict coping strategies at the individual/household and community levels?
- How does poverty in small-scale fisheries relate to market forces, price fluctuations, and bargaining power?
- How are social and cultural differences, such as ethnicity, class, caste and religion, expressed in the ways people relate to natural environments and cope with deprivation?
- How do gender-relations at the household and community levels influence poverty coping strategies and resilience?
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