Fish processing and trading at the artisan level provides diversified employment opportunities in fishing communities, reports All Africa. Although little is understood about poverty in the post-harvest sector, there is a wide diversity of academic and civil society skills that understand wider poverty issues and this could be applied to the sector to increase understanding of post-harvest poverty in the country.
In addition, the Gambia poverty reduction strategy provides a valuable framework for addressing poverty that could be directly applied to poverty in the post-harvest sector and to guide support for poverty reduction approaches.
The diversity and experience of representative bodies in fisheries can generally provide a template for better representation of stakeholders in the post-harvest sector in the future. Meanwhile, the existing networking and linkages between the women in the sector could be improved upon to create a more formal institution for their representation and a source for collateral to secure formal bank loans for their operations.
Opportunities in the Fisheries Sector
GAMBIA - Easy entry, which requires no capital to start operating and no formal qualifications and the fisheries sector, provides opportunities for many poor and vulnerable people.
