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Manual
Diseño y cálculo de jaulas flotantes para cultivos marinos y dulceacuícolas
El propósito de este documento es servir de guía para el diseño, cálculo y operación del cultivo de peces en jaulas flotantes, como alternativa para la producción de alimentos en zonas rurales.Se deriva de acciones de cooperación Sur-Sur gestionadas y financiadas por el Programa de cooperación técnica de la FAO,...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Environmental stewardship by small-scale fisheries
Small-scale fisheries (SSF), including fishers and fishworkers together with their communities and organizations, are among the world’s most effective contributors to safeguarding aquatic resources and environments. Living near to, and relying on, freshwater and marine aquatic species and environments, small-scale fisheries are at the heart of environmental conservation and stewardship...
2024 - FAO
Book
The bioeconomy toolbox: A guide to support the development of sustainable bioeconomy strategies and policies
Bioeconomy is credited as being one of the key pillars for the FAO Strategic Framework 2022–2031 to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. More than 60 countries and regions have a dedicated bioeconomy or bioscience strategy today, and many more are already implementing the bioeconomy with plans and...
Germany - Malaysia - Namibia - Uruguay
2024 - FAO
Manual
Pacific oyster farming
A practical manual
The purpose of this manual is to give the reader a foundation of practical knowledge regarding all aspects of Pacific oyster cultivation. It is targeted at new entrants to the market wishing to establish a farm, and existing operators who wish to develop their farms and explore new cultivation techniques....
2024 - FAO
Book
Guidebook for developing aquaculture co-management systems
Co-management, a collaborative decision-making approach between governments and diverse user groups regarding shared resources, has evolved across natural resource settings. Traditionally applied in fisheries, forestry, and water management, co-management tackles short-term resource allocation and long-term climate adaptation challenges. Despite aquaculture's perception as a private enterprise, it relies on shared resources...
2024 - FAO
Book
In Brief to The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024
Blue Transformation in action
The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication, The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024, contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the media, policy makers and a more general public.
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Informe de la FAO: La producción mundial de la pesca y la acuicultura alcanza un nuevo máximo histórico
La acuicultura supera por primera vez a la pesca de captura en la producción de animales acuáticos, según la publicación El estado mundial de la pesca y la acuicultura 2024.
La producción mundial de la pesca y la acuicultura ha alcanzado un récord en la producción acuícola de animales acuáticos, superando por primera vez a la pesca de captura, según un nuevo informe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) publicado hoy.
La última...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Implementing the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines for gender-equitable and climate-resilient food systems and livelihoods
Summary baseline report of the FAO FMM/GLO/155/MUL Project: Indonesia, Madagascar, Namibia and the Philippines
This report presents the design and results of a baseline survey with respect to a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focusing on empowering women in small-scale fisheries. The project supports the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Hygiene and quality for the artisanal fisheries sector in Mauritania
Mauritania’s highly favorable hydro-climatic conditions mean that its coasts are reputed to be among the world’s richest in fish, with an exploitable potential of 1,830,140 tons of all species, including 1,383,000 tons of small pelagic resources (GT IMROP 2019). This significant fisheries resource has made the fishing sector a strategic...
Mauritania
2024 - Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Africa (KCOA)
Newsletter article
Senegal: Tooling Up
International frameworks like ILO’s Convention 188 and SSF Guidelines offer valuable tools for protecting the rights of Africa’s small-scale fishers.
The small-scale fisheries (SSF) sub-sector provides employment and food security to over 10 million people in Africa’s coastal communities. The COVID-19 pandemic raised new challenges, exacerbating precarious working conditions. It is...
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Book
Institutional and economic perspectives on distant-water fisheries access arrangements
This summary outlines the information contained in the “Institutional and Economic Perspectives on Distant-Water Fisheries Access Arrangements” report (2024), which is an expansion of the first report the “Mapping Distant-Water Fisheries Access Arrangements”, published in 2022.This report conducts a more targeted examination of the economic dynamics, policy drivers, and institutional...
China - Ghana - Japan - Namibia
2024 - FAO
Newsletter article
Sri Lanka: Facing the Tides
Only when the small-scale fishers of Sri Lanka willingly adopt social security mechanisms can their sector be protected and assured of a sustainable future.
Fisheries play a pivotal role in Sri Lanka’s socio-economic development, providing 50 per cent of the animal protein for the population, contributing to 2.6 per cent of...
Sri Lanka
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Fisherfolk in Peru preserve mangroves and ocean resources through co-management
Communities in Peru work with local authorities to manage the unique marine ecosystems on which their environment and livelihoods depend. The Global Environment Facility-funded, FAO Coastal Fisheries Initiative has built the capacity of the community to ensure that they can oversee their ecosystems in a sustainable and productive way.
Peru
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter article
Asia: The gendered economy of dried fish
Being conducted in six countries across South and Southeast Asia, the Dried Fish Matters project is a first-ever exploration of the gendered social economy of dried fish
Dried Fish Matters: Mapping the Social Economy of Dried Fish in South and Southeast Asia for Enhanced Wellbeing and Nutrition, or DFM, is a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Grant project. The project spans a duration of eight years: 2018-2026, and involves research in six focus...
Bangladesh - Cambodia - India - Myanmar - Sri Lanka - Thailand
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
Yemaya Recommends: Women and men in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture in Asia
Barriers, constraints and opportunities towards equality and secure livelihoods; 186 pages; 2022; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Bangkok, Thailand. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb9527en. Asia accounts for the highest labour force participation in the small-scale fisheries and aquaculture across all regions of the world. While, historically, the role of women in this...
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
Caracterización de la pesca y la acuicultura artesanal en pequeña escala en América del Sur y recomendaciones de políticas públicas
Esta publicación compila una serie de recomendaciones alineadas a las disposiciones y orientaciones de instrumentos internacionales para fortalecer la sostenibilidad de la pesca y acuicultura artesanal en pequeña escala, y que a su vez permitan mejorar las condiciones de vida de pescadores y acuicultores artesanales de América del Sur.
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Conference proceedings
Proceedings of the EIFAAC symposium on inland fisheries and aquaculture: advances in technology, stock assessment and citizen science in an era of climate change
The international symposium on “Inland Fisheries and aquaculture: advances in technology, stock assessment and citizen science in an era of climate change” was organized in conjunction with the thirty-first session of the European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission in Killarney, Ireland on 20–21 June 2022. The symposium was organized...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
FAO launches new reference centres to step up fight against Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a growing threat to human and animal health. It endangers modern human and veterinary medicine and undermines the safety of our food and environment.
AMR occurs when micro-organisms including bacteria, parasites, and viruses develop resistance to antimicrobials such as antibiotics, antifungal, antiparasitic and antiviral drugs. It threatens...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
FAO set to support implementation of landmark treaty for conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity on high seas
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the approval by UN member states of a landmark legally binding agreement, under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in international waters, covering nearly two-thirds...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Event
XVIII Sesión de la Comisión de Pesca en Pequeña Escala, Artesanal y Acuicultura de América Latina y el Caribe (COPPESAALC)
La reunión atiende lo establecido en los estatutos de la Comisión respecto de la realización de sesiones ordinarias bienales. Sus objetivos son reportar las medidas adoptadas respecto de los acuerdos de la reunión anterior; reflexionar colectivamente sobre los temas que atañen a la sostenibilidad y contribución de la pesca y...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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