Regarded as one of the main Brazilian public policies aimed at artisanal fishers, the Unemployment Insurance for Artisanal Fishers (Seguro-Desemprego do Pescador Artesanal), also known as Seguro-Defeso, acts both as a social protection and an environmental protection policy. The Seguro-Defeso is a benefit directed at professional small-scale (artisanal) fishers, whose...

In Latin America there are various social protection mechanisms created by organizations of artisanal fishers and small-scale fish farmers, as a substitute response to the absence of official, government led, systems. Some barriers to access social protection programs include labor informality, which makes fishers, fish-farmers and fish-workers invisible...

Women in the informal sector In Tunisia 32.4% of women and girls live in rural areas. They represent 50.4% of the total rural population (Government of Tunisia), therefore, they are considered as key development actors and play a strategic role in national food security. Women in rural areas face greater difficulties...

Pillar 3 of IYAFA’s Global Action Plan is on social sustainability and to raise awareness on the pillar, we sat down with Adriana Cadena Cancino to talk about the importance of securing social inclusion and well-being of small-scale artisanal fishers and fish farmers and to learn from her...

On Tuesday, April 5th, the First Meeting of the Inter-institutional Group on Social Protection for Fisheries and Aquaculture - GIPRO, was held. This group is made up of key public and private entities in the fisheries and aquaculture sector and social protection in the country. It was created within the...