Program

Povfish Synthesis meeting, Tanzania October 14-18 2009

 
Tuesday October 13
Arrive in Dar es Salaam and check in at Millennium Towers Peacock Hotel
 

Wednesday October 14

0900
1200
1300
Visit to the University of Dar es Salaam (No return to the hotel)
Lunch
Kivukoni Fish Market

1800

Departure for Mwanza

2000

Check in at Hotel La Kairo

2030

Welcome dinner at  the hotel
 

Thursday October 15 (TAFIRI conference room, chair: Svein Jentoft)

 

0800-0830

Introduction by Svein Jentoft

 

0830-0900

Presentation of Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute

 

0900-1015

Tanzania: Occupation of last resort? Small-scale fishing as a way of life in Lake Victoria

Paul O. Onyango

Comments by Ratana & Kungwan

 

1015-1030

Coffee/Tea

 

1030-1145

Mozambique: How institutional dynamics influenced fishing communities’ livelihoods?

Ana Menezes & Arne Eide

Comments by Oscar

 

1145-1300

Poland: Combating with poverty, marginalization and social exclusion in small fishing communities - the case study from the Vistula Lagoon

Boguslaw Marciniak

Comments by Ståle

 

1300-1400

Lunch at TAFIRI

 

1400-1515

Guatemala: Internal and external mechanisms leading fishermen into poverty: the case of the town of Livingston

Hector Andrade & Georges Midre

Comments by Miguel & Camilla

 

1515-1630

Vietnam: Factors Affecting Poverty of Fishermen in Small Scale Fisheries - The case of Thanh Phong Commune, Ben Tre Province

Kim Anh Thi Nguyen & Ola Flaaten

Comments by Silvia & Maiken

 

1700-1900

Research vessel at Lake Victoria

 

2000

Dinner and video presentation in the hotel

 

  

Friday October 16 (TAFIRI conference room, chair: Arne Eide)

 

0800-0915

Thailand: Learning from the experts: what enable small-scale fishing communities in Thailand to avert poverty?

Ratana Chuenpagdee & Kungwan Juntarashote

Comments by Mafa

 

0915-1030

Sri Lanka: Social Capital as a resource to alleviate poverty in fisheries: the role of fisheries cooperatives in small scale fishing communities of Southern Sri Lanka

Oscar Amarasinghe

Comments by Kim Anh & Ola

 

1030-1045

Coffee/Tea

 

1045-1215

Turkey: Sea snail fishing and poverty in small scale fishing on the Eastern Black Sea Coast of Turkey

Ståle Knudsen

Comments by Boguslaw

 

1215-1330

Mexico: How people cope with vulnerable livelihoods in coastal communities

Silvia Salas & Maiken Bjørkan

Comments by Ana & Arne

 

1330-1430

Lunch at TAFIRI

 

1430-1545

Nicaragua: Between Land, Water – and Poverty: Community Empowerment and Small-Scale Fishery in Marshall Point

Miguel Gonzalez & Camilla Andreassen

Comments by Georges & Hector

 

1545-1600

Coffee/tea

 

1600-1715

Malawi: Between a rock and a hard place: Fisheries Degradation, Limited Alternatives and Poverty

Mafaniso Hara

Comments by Paul

 

1715-1830
 
 
 
1830-1915    

Bangladesh: Living on the Margin: The Poverty-Fisheries Nexus in Bangladesh

Mohammad Mahmudul Islam

Comments by Maarten

 

Uganda: Understanding Local Fishers’ Ecological Knowledge systems and the Management of Fisheries Resources: The Case of Masese Fish Landing Site in Lake Victoria

Stevens Aguto Odongoh

 

2000

Dinner at the hotel

 

Saturday October 17 (HOTEL LA KAIRO conference room, chair: Svein Jentoft)
 
0800-1300

Excursion to Magu

1300-1400

Lunch at the hotel

1400-1700

Advisory Panel: Synthesis and general discussion (Maarten, Jesper & Ratana)

1730-1830

2010 stakeholder meeting in Bangkok (Ratana & Kungwan)

2000

Farewell Dinner at the hotel

 

Sunday October 18
 

0730

Pick up at the hotel

0910

Departure from Mwanza

1130

Arrival Dar es Salaam

 

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