The Latin American and Caribbean Workshop on IYAFA 2022 issued a global Call for Action for sustainable and equitable small-scale fisheries. 

A tourist village in Cananeia city in the south coast of the Sao Paulo state in Brazil hosted 45 fishermen, fisherwomen and supporters from 16 different countries on 2-5 November in 2022. They had gathered for a workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean, titled: IYAFA 2022 – Celebrating Sustainable and Equitable Small-Scale Fisheries. The organizing committee comprised the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF), Comissao Nacional de Fortalecimento das Reservas Extrativistas (CONFREM), Instituto Linha D’Água (LDA) and Associacao de Moradores Itacuruca Pereirinha (AMOIP).

The workshop’s main objective was to deepen fishworker organizations’ knowledge and analysis of food security and tenure rights so as to strengthen their capacities to engage with these issues internationally. Another objective was to empower the local community of fishers to receive big groups and interact with them.