Madhumita Mukherjee, Rajarshi Banerjee, Arindam Datta, Soma Sen and Basundhara Chatterjee

In: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture

East Kolkata Wetland has been recognised as a highly productive, remunerative and employment-generating eco-system. The eco-system cleans the city environment and acts as a catalytic agent to change the city's waste into protein-rich Aqua Zone, which is also a major supplier of vegetable, fruit and horticultural products. Bengal women actively participate in a number of income-generating activities for their families. The project reported on here, was undertaken to develop an understanding of trends in fishery development and their implications for the periurban fishing community of Kolkata. A second objective was to investigate the women's role in fisheries and in the fishing community, in order to develop a correct strategy to strengthen women's meaningful participation. The study was done in three different periurban systems.