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    • Backing small-scale fishers: Opportunities and challenges in transforming the fish sector 

      Isaacs, Moenieba; Hara, Mafaniso (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
      Globally, small-scale fisheries play a significant role in food security, poverty reduction and income generation (Béné et al 2007; Heck et al 2007; Béné et al 2010; FAO 2003). At the 2008 Global Conference on Small-Scale ...
    • Building leaders for the UN Ocean Science Decade: A guide to supporting early career women researchers within academic marine research institutions 

      Shellock, Rebecca J; Cvitanovic, Christopher; Isaacs, Moenieba (Oxford University Press, 2023)
      Diverse and inclusive marine science is now recognized as essential for addressing the complex and accelerating challenges facing marine social-ecological systems (Blythe and Cvitanovic, 2020; Lawless et al., 2021). The ...
    • Constituting the commons in the new South Africa 

      Isaacs, Moenieba; Mohamed, Najma; Ntshona, Zolile; Turner, Stephen (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2000)
      This set of papers results from participation by staff members of the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies in the eighth biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, held at ...
    • Current state of extension and advisory services in South African fisheries 

      Hara, Mafaniso; Isaacs, Moenieba (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2012)
      The fishing industry can be divided into marine, recreational, aquaculture and inland sub-sectors. The marine sub-sector is the main commercial fishing sector comprised of industrial fishing and also small-scale fishing, ...
    • Current state of extension and advisory services in South African fisheries 

      Hara, Mafaniso; Isaacs, Moenieba (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
      The fishing industry can be divided into marine, recreational, aquaculture and inland sub-sectors. The marine sub-sector is the main commercial fishing sector comprised of industrial fishing and also smallscale fishing, ...
    • Current state of extension and advisory services in South African fisheries 

      Hara, Mafaniso; Isaacs, Moenieba (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
      The fishing industry can be divided into marine, recreational, aquaculture and inland sub-sectors. The marine sub-sector is the main commercial fishing sector comprised of industrial fishing and also smallscale fishing, ...
    • A decision support tool for response to global change in marine systems: the IMBER-ADApT Framework 

      Bundy, Alida; Chuenpagdee, Ratana; Cooley, Sarah R; Defeo, Omar; Glaeser, Bernhard; Guillotreau, Patrice; Isaacs, Moenieba; Mitsutaku, Makino; Perry, Ian R (John Wiley & Sons, 2016)
      Global change is occurring now, often with consequences far beyond those anticipated. Although there is a wide range of assessment approaches available to address-specific aspects of global change, there is currently no ...
    • Fisheries crime, human rights and small-scalefisheries in South Africa: Acase of biggerfish to fry 

      Isaacs, Moenieba; Witbooi, Emma (Elsevier, 2019)
      Marinefisheries plays an important role in ensuring food security and providing livelihoods in South Africa, as inmany other developing coastal States. Transnationalfisheries crime seriously undermines these goals. Drawingon ...
    • The humble sardine (small pelagics): fish as food or fodder 

      Isaacs, Moenieba (BioMed Central Ltd., 2016)
      Background: The group of small pelagic fish is the largest species group landed globally. A significant proportion of this nutrient-rich food is processed and lost to livestock feed, fish feed, fish oil, pet food and ...
    • Is the Blue Justice concept a human rights agenda? 

      Isaacs, Moenieba (PLAAS, 2019-11-21)
      What is Blue Justice? This concept is situated in social justice for small-scale fisheries (SSFs)—a narrative popular with civil society movements and academics to garner support for the adoption and implementation of the ...
    • 'It's all about money! Implementation of South Africaís new fisheries policy 

      Hersoug, Bjorn; Isaacs, Moenieba (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2001)
      This paper was originally written as part of an economics study commissioned by the Chief Directorate: Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) of the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT). Since ...
    • Land and agrarian reform in integrated development plans (IDPs) 

      Hall, Ruth; Isaacs, Moenieba; Saruchera, Munyaradzi (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
      This research study were conducted in late 2004 and the fi ndings presented to the Department of Provincial and Local Government (DPLG) and shared with the Department of Land Affairs (DLA) in 2005. Since then, some ...
    • Mainstreaming of HIV and Aids into South African fisheries policy 

      Isaacs, Moenieba; Hara, Mafaniso (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2008)
      HIV/Aids is one of the most serious health, economic and social issues facing southern Africa today (UNAIDS; Heywood 2004). Although only 10% of the world’s population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa, 64% of the 39.5 million ...
    • Mainstreaming of HIV and Aids into South African fisheries policy 

      Isaacs, Moenieba; Hara, Mafaniso (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2008-11)
      This research investigated the drivers and the impact of HIV and Aids in fishing communities in South Africa, in order to assist the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism: Marine and Coastal Management ...
    • Multi-stakeholder process of co-designing small-scale fisheries policy in South Africa 

      Isaacs, Moenieba (Springer Nature, 2016)
      In 2005, a group of researchers, community-based organizations and lawyers got together with small-scale fishers to launch a class action law suit against the government of South Africa in its allocation system of Individual ...
    • Multi-stakeholder process of co-designing small-scale fisheries policy in South Africa. 

      Isaacs, Moenieba (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      In 2005, a group of researchers, community-based organizations and lawyers got together with small-scale fishers to launch a class action law suit against the government of South Africa in its allocation system of Individual ...
    • Policy Brief 55: Food in the time of coronavirus: Why we should be very, very afraid 

      Hall, Ruth; Du Toit, Andries; Ramantsima, Katlego; Mtero, Farai; Gumede, Nkanyiso; Hara, Mafaniso; Isaacs, Moenieba; Monjane, Boaventura; Yeni, Sithandiwe (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2020-04-01)
      The social legitimacy of the ‘COVID-19 lockdown’, government’s regulations imposed to contain the spread of the virus, is most likely to run aground unless an urgent plan can be made to ensure that everyone in the country ...
    • The political economy of land governance in Africa: The role of universities in decolonising curricula and promoting critical scholarship 

      Hall, Ruth; Isaacs, Moenieba (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2019-10-08)
      Decolonising the land requires decolonising our universities. In South Africa there is a live conversation about the need to decolonise our universities—an idea that expands beyond transforming our curricula, to drawing ...
    • Restitution of land rights amendment bill 2013 

      Cousins, Ben; Hall, Ruth; Isaacs, Moenieba; Paradza, Gaynor (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
      1.1. This document represents a response from researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies to the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill as published on 19 October 2013. It is a statement by the ...
    • Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill 2013 

      Cousins, Ben; Hall, Ruth; Isaacs, Moenieba; Paradza, Gaynor (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
      This document represents a response from researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies to the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill as published on 19 October 2013. It is a statement by the ...