760 delegates from member countries, international non-governmental organizations and partners gathered in Rome for the 33rd session of FAO’s Committee on Fisheries (COFI), which meets every two years to discuss issues of global relevance in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. The Committee, which was held 9-13 July 2018, welcomed progress in implementing...

The side event that took place during the first day of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) presented the ongoing work to improve the knowledge of the small-scale fisheries sector's contributions. Presenters shared their SSF Guidelines implementation experiences as a lesson to better understand the regional and global contributions of small-scale...

Movimento dos pescadores e pescadoras artesanais (MPP), in collaboration with the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP), other organizations representing traditional small-scale fisheries communities in Brazil and guests from WFFP member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, co-organized a workshop to promote knowledge on documents representing international consensus on how policy,...

In June 2018, the National Fisheries Solidarity Organization (NAFSO) organized a training for around 40 representative of small-scale fisheries organizations from different regions of the country, in Negombo, Sri Lanka. During the workshop, FAO and NAFSO reaffirmed the importance of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) and the SSF Guidelines for...

On 5 December 2017, the UN General Assembly declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture, which will help focus attention on the small-scale fishermen and women who comprise 90 percent of the world's fisheries work force. The General Assembly invited FAO to serve as...