STEP project

  • Gen(d)erating local responses to global market signals

    In Philippine fishing communities, gender roles have a bigger influence than price on fishers’ business decisions. Story highlights: What would you do if you were offered a higher price for something that you are selling? Your first instinct might be the rational economic response: produce more, sell more, and laugh all the way to the

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  • Float a loan to weather the storm

    Story highlights: Acts of good will and reciprocity lay the foundations that can strengthen bonds within societies. When you’re a fisher on the coastline of the Visayan sea in the Philippines, that gets hit by 20 typhoons a year, you’ll want the strongest foundations you can get. In November 2013 one of the most powerful

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  • Untangling the net of small-scale fisheries trade

    Story highlights: There is an old rhyme, “To market, to market to buy a penny bun. Home again, home again, market is done.” The rhyme points out the buyer, and indirectly the trader or seller, but leaves to the imagination the baker, distributer, deliverer, and a number of other important players in getting that penny

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