Phasing out of open registries, supported by most developing nations at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), would have triggered a chain reaction among open registries, ship owners, seafarers, and the revenues earned by those supplying shipboard labor. Adherence to...

"Access to inshore fisheries in Sierra Leone and their management are discussed in order to provide a basis for improving fisheries management."On the basis of the property rights framework, the state is the de jure owner of the inshore fisheries resources, exploited by the artisanal fishers as...

The present analysis, which exploits one of the first empirical data collected from smallholders in Sierra Leone since the end of the civil war, compares the impact of two poverty reduction strategies targeting smallholders in Sierra Leone: support to rice production is compared with support to...