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Impacts of gender and location on the psychological wellbeing of Agricultural Science and Education Academic Staff
No full textThere is a paucity of literature on the impacts of gender and location on the psychological well-being of agricultural science academic staff. This condition necessitated the use of an ex-post facto study with a sample of 46 University of Nigerian Agricultural Science and Education Academic Staff. The psychological wellbeing scale (α = .84) was used to collect data, which was based on the scientific research paradigm and quantitative research approach. The mean and t-test statistics were used to analyze the data. It was revealed that while gender had no significant impact on the academic staff’s psychological wellbeing, location had a significant impact on the academic staff’s psychological wellbeing. As a result, it was recommended that the university authority should make necessary accommodations to create a working environment that promotes the psychological wellbeing of academic staff irrespective of their location
Social protection and aquatic food systems
No full textTying social protection to the blue economy—using marine resources for rural economic growth and improved livelihoods while preserving the health of the ocean ecosystem - is potentially a powerful and sustainable means of improving small-scale fisheries. This paper examines critical links between social protection and the blue economy, emphasizing small-scale fisheries as part of a broader transformative social protection agenda. In the face of climate change and other global shocks, shock-responsive social protection and adaptive social protection may be useful frameworks to envisage social protection in the fisheries sector. We discuss some of the challenges and opportunities of enhancing social protection for fisheries-dependent households and how social protection and fisheries management initiatives can be complementary. Particularly, we underscore the importance of enhancing economic inclusion and sustainable fisheries management through the possible implementation and rollout of various social protection policies and programmes that address marine and aquatic food systems. We provide support on the importance of various social protection instruments-both formal and informal for supporting marine and aquatic food systems both proactively and reactively for enhanced livelihoods. To end, we highlight and discuss issues of marginalisation and the significant youth and gender gaps which are commonplace in the fisheries sector, identifying some areas for policy entry and action.Peer-reviewe
