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Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture for Food Security and Nutrition. Committee on World Food Security (CFS). Policy Recommendations.

CFS Recommended the following actions by stakeholders to address the development, policy, management and enforcement challenges in order to maintain and enhance the contribution of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture to nutrition and food security:

  • Give to fish the position it deserves in food security and nutrition strategies, policies and programmes
  • Promote sustainable fisheries and aquaculture policies and management and design climate change adaptation strategies for food security and nutrition
  • Seize the opportunities and address the challenges of aquaculture development
  • Recognize the contribution of small-scale fisheries
  • Enhance fish market’s and trade’s contribution to food security and nutrition
  • Improve social protection and labour rights
  • Fully address the gender dimension of the fisheries and aquaculture sector
  • Integrate food security and nutrition concerns into fisheries and aquaculture-related policies and programmes

CFS is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together in a coordinated way to ensure food security and nutrition for all. CFS endorses policy recommendations on a wide range of food security and nutrition topics.

Date
2014
Publisher
FAO, CFS
Region
Global