The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) have a chapter dedicated to information, research, and communication, that provides...

Aquatic foods - animals, plants and algae harvested from freshwater and marine environments - contribute substantially to food systems globally. These foods supply protein to over 3.2 billion people, are...

Bagans for catching anchovy by Stephanus Mandagi, PhD & Christofel Rotinsulu Anchovies have been the main target for migrant fishers in Raja Ampat, West Papua Province of Indonesia. For the last three...

  One of the pillars of IYAFA’s Global action plan is on food security and nutrition. How do you think the International Year contributes to acknowledging, strengthening, and promoting the contribution...

by Lena Westlund and Molly Ahern Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture and related value chains provide employment for millions of people (FAO, 2012; Thompson and Subasinghe, 2011). Fish harvested by small-scale fishers...

© Nelson Avdalov The burden of hunger and malnutrition, on school-aged children and adolescents are major constraints in achieving global food security and nutrition. Home-grown school feeding (HGSF) is...

Inland fisheries and their associated ecosystem services make valuable contributions to achieving several of the SDGs including SDG 1 (No poverty), SDG 2 (Zero hunger), SDG 14 (Life below water) and SDG 15...

Due to its economic value and great size (reaching up to 150 cm in length), the striped catfish (Pseudoplatystoma magdaleniatum) is one of the emblematic species of the Magdalena River...

Sustainable inland fisheries rely on healthy aquatic ecosystems for the capacity to deliver the food, water, and habitat. These services cannot be ensured by the fisheries sector alone and managing...

  We sat down with professor Jeppe Kolding to learn more about the relation between Inland fisheries, nutrition and economic development, why we should pay more attention to this sector, and...

The Kiribati Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with INFOFISH and The Pacific Community (SPC) joined...

  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...

  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...

  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..

  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) organ

  Lisbon, 27 June 2022 – The side event dedicated to the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA) 2022 at the 2022 UN Oceans Conference brought together different stakeholders...

  Climate change is impacting food production from freshwater, coastal and open ocean marine ecosystems, and small-scale fishing and fish farming communities in developing countries are among the most vulnerable. In...

Cadiz, Spain. May 2022 - Small-scale fisheries are a key source of nutrition and employment in many Latin American and Caribbean countries, as well as in the Southern European countries...

The side-event titled ‘The future and ocean WE (ALL) want: Inclusion and integration for strong, sustainable and equitable blue economies’ was organised on 28th June 2022 at Trivoli Oriente Hotel,...

  We interviewed UNSG’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, ambassador Peter Thomson to understand more about the importance of including people in the discussions related to the ocean and why small-scale...