Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries
in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication

News and events

News
Globally, relatively few data are available about women's role in small-scale fisheries, despite their active participation as fishers, processors, traders and marketers. This calls for greater efforts by researchers, national fisheries agencies and global policymakers to collect and report separately on women's and men's contributions to this sector. Women's focus...
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A majority of small-scale fishers, farmers, and rural communities in general lack access to credit, savings and insurance services, even though accessibility has been increasing over the last decades. FAO aims to address this situation in collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA). Photo of fish being...
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Contents of the April 2019 issue Job vacancy: Small-scale fisheries expert Pacific Regional Workshop on Exploring SDG 14.b and its Indicator 14.b.1 Side event at the 40th session of the Human Rights Council: "Who is behind your fish?" Pêcheurs du Monde General Assembly meeting of the African Women Fish Processors and Traders Network, AWFishNet
Event
During one week, activist from NGOs with connection to small-scale fishers and fisheries issues came together with researchers from government institutes as well as development journalists to learn more about small-scale fisheries. The week-long workshop was co-hosted by FAO and WorldFish, taking place at the WorldFish office in Penang, Malaysia....