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A toolkit for incorporating fish into the home-grown school feeding programme
Food and nutrition security is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals enshrined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In an attempt to contribute to reaching this objective, school feeding programmes are serving meals to over 418 million pre-primary, primary and secondary schoolchildren around the world. The positive experience...
2024 - FAO
Technical paper
El rol de la mujer en la pesca artesanal: miradas desde las mujeres del mar
Organismos internacionales como las Naciones Unidas y su Agencia Especializada en la Alimentación y la Agricultura, FAO, han destacado la importancia de la participación equitativa de las mujeres en la pesca y la acuicultura en contexto internacional, por lo que han buscado promover la igualdad de género en este sector....
Chile
2024 - Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile
Policy brief/paper
Análisis con enfoque de género de la regulación y políticas públicas en el sector pesquero y acuícola en Chile.
Brechas de género y propuesta de mejora
Actualmente, las políticas públicas incluyen el enfoque de género en las distintas actividades laborales, con el fin de disponer actividades con equidad de género, generando condiciones que permitan la autonomía de las mujeres, y favorezcan el desarrollo y bienestar social en los países. El sector pesquero y acuicultor, no está...
Chile
2024 - CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN BIODIVERSIDAD Y AMBIENTES SUSTENTABLES (CIBAS) UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE LA SANTÍSIMA CONCEPCIÓN
Newsletter
Revue de presse de Juin 2024 - Réseau des Journalistes Africains Spécialisés sur le Développement Durable & le Changement Climatique
L’association Africa 21 propose, grâce à son réseau des journalistes africains spécialisés sur le développement durable et le changement climatique, une revue de presse sur le mois de juin 2024. Vous y retrouverez un grand nombre d’article de presse en français et en anglais sélectionnés par leur soin qui traite...
2024 - Association Africa 21
Report
Aquaculture insurance for small-scale producers
The FAO Innovation for Blue Transformation Series introduces relevant policy initiatives, mechanisms, and tools available to promote innovation and technical solutions that can accelerate aquatic food system transformation. The series shares brief and practical knowledge needed for sustainable and resilient aquatic food systems that can nourish the world’s growing population,...
China - Thailand
2024 - FAO
Book
Empowering women in fisheries value chains
Good practices and lessons learned from the Coastal Fisheries Initiative
The Coastal Fisheries Initiative (CFI) programme – a global partnership between FAO, the UN Development Programme, the UNEnvironment Programme, Conservation International, the World Bank and the World Wide Fund for Nature – has developed three legacy Global Knowledge Products to consolidate experience and lessons learned and to make its successful...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter article
Alaska’s empty nets, ageing fleets
Stocks of fish and crab have collapsed in Alaska, devastating both commercial and subsistence fishers.
Climate change used to be something fishers in Alaska talked of as a concern for the future. No longer. That future is now. Alaska has witnessed, almost overnight, collapses in both fish and crab stocks. The cod of the Gulf of Alaska; the Bering Sea king crab and snow crab;...
United States of America
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Book
Fish silage production by fermentation
A manual on how microbial fermentation can turn fish waste into a valuable feed ingredient or fertilizer
This publication is a practical manual that will guide the reader through the main principles of producing fish silage by fermentation and explain each step of the fermentation process needed to successfully become a fish silage producer. Fish, including shellfish, are highly nutritious and in much demand all over the...
2024 - FAO
Newsletter
Yemaya Newsletter No.67, August 2023
Yemaya No. 67, dated August 2023, a special issue on GAF8 features articles on the recently held 8th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries-Shaping the Future: Gender Justice for sustainable aquaculture and Fisheries. Held over three days, from 21-23 November 2022 in the city of Kochi in the...
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter
Yemaya Newsletter No.68, December 2023
Yemaya No. 68, dated December 2023, features articles from Costa Rica, Chile, Malawi, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana and Southeast Asia on Inland fisheries, fisheries management, fish processing, social capital, gendered economy of dried fish, climate change, women in fisheries profile from Africa, and a review of a book on women...
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Book
Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics – Yearbook 2021
The FAO Yearbook of Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics, prepared by the Statistics Team of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, offers a synthesis of the major trends in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. Statistics are presented in eight main thematic chapters, covering statistics of production (total, aquaculture, capture fisheries), employment,...
2024 - FAO
Audio
Navigating marine biodiversity for a better tomorrow – Episode 52
Marine biodiversity is a precious resource – but it has long been under threat. Today's coral reefs, for example, cover half the area they did in 1950, and nearly 10 per cent of marine life is at risk of extinction.
How can we support small-scale producers who rely on the sea...
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Newsletter article
Comment: Striving Together for Rights Forever
A wide range of actors—ranging from civil society organizations to grassroots activists and trade unionists—are rallying around a human rights-based approach to tackle issues plaguing the small-scale fisheries subsector.
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
1984 Rome Conference: Rallying for Collectivism
On the 40th anniversary of the International Conference of Fish Workers and their Supporters (ICFWS), an account of how a group of collaborators pulled off what was then a miracle.
In July 1983, amidst my job tenure in bustling Hong Kong, I received a pivotal letter from a dear friend. It...
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC): The Right to Food
Small-scale fisheries play an indispensable role in combating poverty, enhancing food security and promoting the sustainable use of marine and inland waters the world over.
This year is the tenth anniversary of a monumental achievement for small-scale fishing communities and Indigenous Peoples. A decade ago, fisherfolk and civil society organizations united...
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers ICSF
Newsletter article
West Africa: Broadcast Reform
A network of trainers and community radio broadcasters has been working hard to disseminate SSF Guidelines in West Africa, relying on local media and grassroots initiatives.
The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (the SSF Guidelines) is an international framework adopted...
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Policy brief/paper
Policy brief: Fisheries other effective area-based conservation measures
Area-based management measures by any sector can deliver outcomes that collectively align with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) Strategy on Mainstreaming Biodiversity across Food Production Sectors....
2024 - FAO
Audio
WorldFish Director General Essam Yassin Mohammed Talks Blue Economy
WorldFish Director-General, Essam Yassin Mohammed, recently appeared on the Victorian Hour, ABC Radio Australia, sharing insights on how the Blue Economy must benefit fishing communities in the Global South.
In the radio interview, he spoke about how it is imperative that blue economy initiatives benefit fishing communities in developing and small island...
2024 - Victorian Hour, ABC Radio Australia
Newsletter article
National Plan of Action for Small-Scale Fisheries: Leaving No One Behind
The National Plans of Action for Small-Scale Fisheries help implement the SSF Guidelines at the country level, factoring in varying national and regional legal and policy frameworks.
No matter where in the world, small-scale fisheries (SSF) represent a critical source of food security, nutrition and livelihoods for coastal and riverine communities....
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
Japan: A Living Proof of the ‘Life Above Water’
The Japanese tenure rights system is primarily responsible for the sustainability of small-scale fisheries.
The TBTI Global Book Series, Life Above Water (Jentoft 2019), has resonated with the public and received a great response in Japan. In a remarkable display of collaboration, dozens of researchers, government officials, and fishers have worked...
Japan
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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