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Sri Lanka: women marginalized at top of supply chain

Supply Chain Management in the Aquaculture Industry: The Case of Food Fish Aquaculture in Sri Lanka

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S.P.M. Jayantha1 and D.A.M. De Silva2

This paper on supply chains for inland fisheries and aquaculture in Sri Lanka found that the fishery value chain was dominated by few big players and a number of intermediaries. The authors found that women became increasingly marginalized “with every step of the value chain with complete exclusion at the

Photo: Woman drying fish, Sri Lanka, Bandara Basanayke

top end”.