Rome, 5 September 2022 -  In the opening day of the 35th session of the Committee on Fisheries a high level event on the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) was held. The hybrid event began with the intervention of FAO’s Director-General, Qu Dongyu who reaffirmed the...

  How are artisanal fisheries and aquaculture related to the culture of indigenous peoples and how do these practices contribute to their livelihoods? For many of our Peoples, the Earth is the source of life. For others, life comes from the sea, the winds or the mountains. The water, lakes, rivers, seas...

  Written by Liseth Escobar- FAO’s Indigenous Peoples Unite. Inputs from Lilia Java, Indigenous leader of the Tikuna, Cocama and Yagua Indigenous Territory. In the south of the Colombian Amazon, along the riverine border with Peru, lies the land inhabited by the Tikuna, Cocama and Yagua Indigenous Peoples, for whom aquatic ecosystems...

  In this interview, Zoila Bustamante Cardenas, a fisherwoman from Chile, explains the fundamental role associations, organisations and fisherfolk groups have to increase the resilience of artisanal fisheries and aquaculture.   The IYAFA 2022 Global Action Plan has Resilience as one of its 7 pillars. In your opinion, how can this year...

  The FAO supported initiative, Global Network for Capacity Building to Increase Access of Small-Scale Fisheries to  Financial Services (CAFI-SSF) in association with Asia-Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA) organized a webinar Global insurance experiences to increase small-scale aquaculture resilience on 15 July 2022 The event was attended by participants from...