Coastal and small-scale fisheries contribute significantly to the food security and nutrition of many millions of people in West Africa. By strengthening this crucial role, important headway can be made towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Rome, 17 August 2021. The Coastal Fisheries Initiative (CFI) West Africa project, the EAF-NANSEN Programme...

In 2020, through the FAO’s EAF Nansen Program and Norad-funded project, ‘Empowering women in small-scale fisheries for sustainable food systems’, and in collaboration with WorldFish, a study was launched to assess the socio-economic and biological consequences of the fishmeal and other fish-based feeds industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study is set in...

©MFMR (Ministry for Fisheries and Marine Resources) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) launched the two-day national inception workshop for Sierra Leone as part of the Norad-funded project ‘Empowering women in small-scale fisheries for sustainable food systems’ on 16th November 2020. The objective...

Why is it important to fund the FAO SSF Umbrella Program? Small-scale fisheries engage approximately 108 million people world-wide, many of whom support and sustain the communities and families they are a part of. Moreover, approximately half of the world’s capture fisheries production originate from small-scale fisheries, of which 90% is...

Like with many areas around the world, the fisheries and aquaculture sector in Malawi has been hugely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through a loss of business following the closure and operational scale down of most channels through which small-scale fishers on Lake Malawi relied on for the marketing of...