FAO officially launched the national implementation phase of the project Enhancing equitable, climate-resilient and sustainable small-scale fisheries through the SSF Guidelines implementation with a technical workshop held at Toliara, in the Atsimo-Andrefana Region...

Delegations from Bangladesh, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka gathered in Chennai from 17–19 September 2025 to participate in a regional capacity development workshop to start the process of developing National Plans of Action for Small-Scale Fisheries (NPOAs-SSF) in each of the countries...

Represented at plenary, panel and side events, the United Republic of Tanzania highlighted its National Plan of Action for the SSF Guidelines (NPoA-SSF) as a flagship example of rights-based, inclusive fisheries management.

The Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-Governmental Organisation (BOBP-IGO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed a Letter of Agreement to host a regional capacity-building workshop in September 2025 to support the development of National Plans of Action for Small-Scale Fisheries (NPOAs-SSF) in Bangladesh, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka...

Every day by the sea in Ifaty, a small tourist village in south-west Madagascar, a group of women gathers to talk. Their conversations often centre on family life – but just as frequently, they turn to work. All the women are fishmongers, and they regularly share experiences, problems, a...