SeafoodSource talks with John Virdin, director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Program at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, to learn more about how new research from the Illuminating Hidden Harvests initiative could change the perception of [...]

Globally, relatively little data is available about women's role in small-scale fisheries, despite their active participation as fishers, processors, traders and marketers. Recognizing this, Illuminating Hidden Harvests research will be filling the data gap using secondary sex-disaggregated data in its [...]

In this short video, students who participated in partnership activities between Duke University and FAO share their experiences about engaging with and contributing to the scholarship, policy and sustainability of small-scale fisheries around the globe.

This document is part of the project “Strengthening the adaptive capacity to climate change in the fisheries and aquaculture sector of Chile”, executed by the Undersecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture and the Ministry of the Environment, and implemented by the [...]

Featured in this Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH) profile series is Hunter Snyder, the Greenland case study contributor and lead of analysis of the carbon footprint of small-scale fisheries. Full text

This report provides details of a national gender training workshop for small-scale fisheries technical project staff, key value chain stakeholders, women processors, chiefs and other value chain actors , which was conducted from 23 to 27 November 2020, in Salima [...]

Profiled in this Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH)  series is Dr. Sergio Macedo Gomes de Mattos, a contributing author to the marine part of the IHH Brazil case study. Full text

Fish and other aquatic foods are often also the most affordable sources of animal protein. However, small-scale fishers, fish workers and their communities still face constraints in effectively participating in decision-making processes that shape their lives, therefore remaining marginalized, and [...]

In 2019, FAO conducted a workshop for the Pacific region to raise awareness on SDG 14.b and the important linkages to relevant regional and global frameworks, as well as to help strengthen capacities of member countries to collect and compile [...]

This Forbes article highlights Nigerian researcher Kafayat Adetoun Fakoya’s work on the Illuminating Hidden Harvests initiative to capture and quantify the contributions of small-scale fisheries to the three pillars of sustainable development (economic, social and environmental) at national, regional and [...]