FAO organizes a meeting to secure sustainable small-scale fisheries
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is organizing on March 25, 2012 a regional meeting aimed at supporting the development of a regional programme for reducing the vulnerability of fishers, fish farmers and their communities to natural disasters and climate change in the region.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is organizing on March 25, 2012 a regional meeting aimed at supporting the development of a regional programme for reducing the vulnerability of fishers, fish farmers and their communities to natural disasters and climate change in the region.
Dubbed ‘Reducing Vulnerability of Fishers, Fish Farmers and their Communities to Natural Disasters and Climate Change Impacts in the Near East and North Africa Region’, the meeting will take place in Oman and it will witness a participation from a cross section of the fisheries and aquaculture sector, and the disaster risk management and climate change communities from different countries in the region.
The world is witnessing an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters with events of hydrometeorological origin constituting the large majority. While considerable uncertainties and research gaps remain, it is clear that changes in climate will have a variety of impacts on national economies and livelihoods including, inter alia, changes in the availability of fish, shortages of freshwater, increased damages by more frequent and more intense extreme events, with the most severe consequences on the food security and livelihoods of agriculture-dependent populations in vulnerable countries.
Hence, the objectives and expected outcomes of the meeting are as follow:
Dubbed ‘Reducing Vulnerability of Fishers, Fish Farmers and their Communities to Natural Disasters and Climate Change Impacts in the Near East and North Africa Region’, the meeting will take place in Oman and it will witness a participation from a cross section of the fisheries and aquaculture sector, and the disaster risk management and climate change communities from different countries in the region.
The world is witnessing an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters with events of hydrometeorological origin constituting the large majority. While considerable uncertainties and research gaps remain, it is clear that changes in climate will have a variety of impacts on national economies and livelihoods including, inter alia, changes in the availability of fish, shortages of freshwater, increased damages by more frequent and more intense extreme events, with the most severe consequences on the food security and livelihoods of agriculture-dependent populations in vulnerable countries.
Hence, the objectives and expected outcomes of the meeting are as follow:
- Consult with partners active in the region on disaster risk management and climate change adaptation initiatives in the fisheries and aquaculture sector.
- Present/review current initiatives in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation in the fisheries and aquaculture sector.
- Discuss challenges, area for collaboration and identify gaps.
- Identify priority actions/areas of intervention.
- Report outcomes and recommendations to the”Near East and North Africa Regional Consultation Workshop on the development of Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries” that will be held in Muscat, Oman, immediately after the strategic meeting from 26 to 28 March 2012.
19/03/2012