Women outnumber men in large and small-scale fisheries, mainly participating in processing and marketing activities, playing a crucial role throughout the value chain and in a position to directly impact food loss and waste reduction....

FAO provides policy guidance and technical support to assist policymakers in establishing and implementing national and regional strategies, action plans, and programmes to develop a sustainable and circular bioeconomy. 

This fish value chain analysis is intended to collect and analyse all information needed to make strategic decisions for upgrading a value chain to increase its competitiveness and contribution to achieving the SDGs.

Although progress has been made in identifying the direct causes of fish losses, reduction strategies tend to focus on technological solutions, overlooking the gender relations that are a primary factor in the social and economic...

Gender and food loss issues are well studied, but their link is often overlooked. In African fisheries value chains, gender relations are a primary factor in the social and economic contexts that shape them.