Results
Training & e-learning
2024
Developing and implementing National Plans of Action for small-scale fisheries
This course is designed for mid-level managers responsible for developing and implementing policy on small-scale fisheries. It is aimed at improving the accessibility to the NPOA-SSF process, thus facilitating the development of an NPOA-SSF by national governments.
Report
2024
Report of the Second WASAG International Forum - Making agriculture resilient for climate change: Water scarcity, an opportunity for action and collaboration, 7–10 February 2023, Praia, Cabo Verde
The Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) was launched during the UNFCCC’s COP22 in Marrakech Morocco in November 2016. WASAG has since steadily received recognition and mandate to support countries in finding solutions to cope with water scarcity in agriculture in the face of climate change. In April 2017, a meeting of partners agreed to establish the WASAG partnership to be hosted by FAO to advance the mandate of the framework.Emerging from its foundational years, WASAG held its first International Forum with the theme “Leaving no one behind”, from 19 to 22 March 2019 in Praia, Cabo Verde, [...]
Training & e-learning
2024
Prospecto – Programa de capacitación pesquera de la FAO en apoyo de la aplicación de los instrumentos internacionales
En 2017, la FAO puso en marcha su Programa mundial de desarrollo de la capacidad en apoyo de la aplicación del Acuerdo sobre medidas del Estado rector del puerto destinadas a prevenir, desalentar y eliminar la pesca ilegal, no declarada y no reglamentada y los instrumentos internacionales, mecanismos regionales y herramientas complementarios para combatir la pesca ilegal, no declarada y no reglamentada. El Programa tiene como objetivo contribuir a los esfuerzos nacionales, regionales y mundiales dirigidos a prevenir, desalentar y eliminar la pesca ilegal, no declarada y no reglamentada. Para la correcta ejecución del Programa, la FAO desarrolló un marco [...]
Tool
2023
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework - A handbook in support of the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication
In 2014, the first internationally negotiated instrument dealing specifically with artisanal and small-scale fisheries known as the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) was endorsed. The scope of the SSF Guidelines is to promote globally a human rights-based approach, covering every social and economic aspect of fisheries governance relevant to all activities undertaken by men and women, in marine and inland waters fisheries value chains. To support and promote the implementation of this important instrument, systematic monitoring is needed in accordance with the provisions in paragraph 13.4, calling [...]
Report
2023
Agrifood solutions to climate change - FAO's work to tackle the climate crisis
Amid a worsening climate crisis and slow progress in cutting greenhouse gases, sustainable agrifood systems practices can help countries and communities to adapt, build resilience and mitigate emissions, ensuring food security and nutrition for a growing global population.
FAO is working with countries and partners from government to community level to simultaneously address the challenges of food security, climate change and biodiversity loss.
But none of this will ultimately succeed unless the world commits to a significant increase in the quality and quantity of climate finance.
Tool
2023
Marco de gestión ambiental y social
El objetivo del Marco de Gestión Ambiental y Social (MGAS) consiste en reforzar la aplicación del enfoque basado en los derechos humanos y otros principios rectores del Marco de Cooperación en la programación de la FAO. La finalidad es garantizar que las personas y el medio ambiente estén protegidos de cualquier posible efecto adverso de los programas y proyectos de la FAO. También se pretende garantizar que todas las partes interesadas tengan numerosas oportunidades de participar activamente en las actividades de estos programas y proyectos, y puedan acceder a canales eficaces para expresar sus preocupaciones al respecto. El MGAS introduce [...]
Report
2023
Legal report on the ecosystem approach to fisheries in Sri Lanka: An analysis of the ecosystem approach to fisheries in selected national policy and legal instruments of Sri Lanka
Legislating for an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) is complex, due to the holistic nature of EAF involving multiple factors that underpin the social, economic, environmental, and institutional aspects of fisheries sustainability. These factors include ecosystems integration, risks, intersectoral collaboration, research, participatory processes, monitoring, control, surveillance, and enforcement, among others. To assess how an EAF is being implemented through national policy and legal frameworks, FAO developed a diagnostic tool for implementing an ecosystem approach to fisheries through national policy and legal frameworks.
The present legal report on the EAF used the diagnostic tool to assess the alignment of selected policy and [...]
Tool
2023
Aquaculture Legal Assessment and Revision Tool
While the aquaculture sector has seen extraordinary global growth over recent years, it also faces a number of important challenges. Although aquaculture may reduce pressure on wild fish stocks, the fact remains that the sector can also have a range of negative environmental impacts. At the same time, a degraded environment, in particular poor water quality, can adversely affect the health of aquatic animals and plants used in aquaculture and therefore the economic sustainability of the sector. Moreover, if appropriate bio-security measures, in the sense of measures to protect aquatic animal health, aquatic plant health and human health, are not [...]
Tool
2023
Guía técnica sobre la integración de las Directrices voluntarias sobre la gobernanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria nacional en la aplicación de la CNULD y la NDT
Producida conjuntamente por las secretarías de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) y la Convención de las Naciones Unidas de Lucha contra la Desertificación (CLD), con contribuciones de múltiples partes interesadas, esta guía técnica aborda la integración de las Directrices voluntarias sobre la gobernanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria nacional (DVGT) dentro de la aplicación de la CLD y la Neutralidad en la degradación de las tierras (NDT), abriendo así un nuevo capítulo en los esfuerzos en curso para [...]
Issue paper
2023
Linkages between inland fisheries and international instruments – Opportunities for engagement
The ecosystem approach to inland fisheries management (EAIFM) requires the consideration of inland fisheries beyond the confines of the fisheries sector. Inland fisheries can be invisible in some fora and processes that can have major positive or negative impacts upon them. An ecosystem approach implies that inland fisheries should be considered beyond their subsector boundaries. Activities in other domains, such as land and water use, have major impacts on inland fisheries through, for example, habitat degradation and loss.
Mainstreaming the values and needs of inland fisheries into these areas is required if their sustainability is to be achieved. The extent to [...]