The aim of this study is to promote cooperation and actions for the benefit of coastal communities on the Southern and Eastern shores of the Mediterranean region by adopting an approach that integrates environmental, economic and social dimensions. These areas are traditionally based on Fisheries, especially small-scale fisheries (SSFs), which...

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 Once again Spain has turned its back on historic injustices by denying rights to small scale fishers in the Mediterranean to access Bluefin tuna.

This webinar originally aired on 25 January 2017. The Information System on Small-scale Fisheries (ISSF) is a web portal that is used to integrate, summarize, and communicate information on small-scale fisheries (SSF) globally. Based on a crowdsourcing approach, the data are all freely accessible, helping the global SSF community to better...

The Too Big To Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.   

A ministerial conference on Mediterranean fisheries is organized in Malta on 29-30 March 2017 to adopt a common declaration (Malta MedFish4Ever Declaration) on the future of Mediterranean fisheries. The event consists of a Stakeholder roundtable, a launching meeting, a ministerial conference meeting and a ceremony for the signature of the...

The Too Big To Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.   

Landare is one of the Spanish State’s pioneer consumer associations. Founded in 1991 by individuals involved in antimilitarist and anarchist groups, Landare has since evolved alongside social change and unrest. Today, 2600 families from Pamplona (Iruña) meet and acquire foodstuffs in Landare’s two premises which employ 25 workers. Landare can,...

FAO Regional Office for Africa's Newsletter highlights some relevant news stories, articles, and feature stories across the region, subregions and at countries of Africa. The RAF Newsletter is a good platform resource for knowledge and information sharing. This edition which covers the period of January to June 2017 takes into...

Una de las principales soluciones para el control de enfermedades en acuicultura, al igual que con otras especies animales, es el uso prudente de medicamentos veterinarios. Se reconoce internacionalmente que el uso de medicamentos es importante en el control de enfermedades. La OMS ha declarado que "los antimicrobianos son medicamentos...

The use of traditional knowledge can be a powerful conservation tool, providing community support for conservation plans and enabling the inclusion of customary ecological management practices in their design. This study documents three experiences in Central America where traditional knowledge has been used to improve marine spatial planning and frame...

Seabirds forage in highly productive areas of the ocean, which are also targeted by commercial fishing vessels. This overlap can cause them to be accidentally caught on hooks, or entangled in nets. For small-scale low impact fishers, such incidental by-catches of seabirds represent a potential danger to life and limb....

LIFE strongly urges MEPs of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) to vote against the lifting of restrictions to pulse fishing.

The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) are the first international instrument dedicated entirely to the immensely important – but until now often neglected – small-scale fisheries sector. The SSF Guidelines represent a global consensus on principles and guidance...

The North American CSA community, taking a clue from the rapid growth of CSAs in new areas of the world (France, UK, all of Europe, China), is proposing the adoption of a CSA Charter that provides a definition of what CSA is all about. Together, regional networks and independent CSAs will launch...

O setor agropecuário é o único da economia brasileira que vem suportando a crise e continua a crescer. É o setor que tem apresentado bons resultados em todo país. Em Roraima, a agropecuária é responsável por mais da metade da economia e está presente todos os dias em nossas vidas,...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs. 

La obra que ahora presentamos reúne trabajos de investigación en alimentos y territorio en el contexto de una nueva ruralidad. Los estudios fueron realizados con el enfoque de Sistemas Agroalimentarios Localizados (SIAL), como una herramienta que permite conocer y explicar la red de relaciones entre los actores sociales y el...

Comment: Working for Fishers, Analysis - C188: Truly Sustainable by Brandt Wagner et al., Brazil - Fishermen: A Backbreaking Struggle by Ana Paula Rainho, Peru - Labour: Against the Current by Juan Carlos Sueiro et al., New Zealand - Labour: Exploited, Blacklisted, Destitute by Christina Stringer et al., Ireland -...

The United Nations Ocean Conference held in New York on 5-9 June 2017, focussed on the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 (SDG 14), and called for the sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources. At the conference plenary, the Women’s Major Group, representing 1300 member organizations and networks...