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ACHA Working Paper 5

Children’s Harmful Work in Ghana’s Lake Volta Fisheries: Research Needed to Move Beyond Discourses of Child Trafficking

Published on 14 December 2020

Children work throughout the Lake Volta fisheries value chain. It is commonly assumed most have been trafficked.

Research and advocacy has focused on dangers to young boys harvesting fish, and poverty as a driver, precluding attention to harms experienced by non-trafficked children, girls’ experiences and work-education dynamics.

More work is needed on the proportions of children who fish and perform harmful work; structural, ecological and historical contexts; young people’s agency in pursuing fishing work; and why attention to trafficking dominates.

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Bellwood-Howard, I. and Abubakari, A. (2020) Children’s Harmful Work in Ghana’s Lake Volta Fisheries: Research Needed to Move Beyond Discourses of Child Trafficking, ACHA Working Paper 5, Brighton: Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture, Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/ACHA.2020.004

Authors

Imogen Bellwood-Howard

Research Fellow

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published by
Institute of Development Studies
doi
10.19088/ACHA.2020.004
isbn
978-1-78118-702-9
language
English

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