Coastal erosion and accretion are natural processes. However, such instances have becomeabnormally highdue to human activities and sea-level rise. 

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs

In remote Kyaukphyu Township, members of local fishery groups are anxiously waiting to hear the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw’s decision on a draft law that could ensure the sustainable management of fisheries.  

Two-thirds of the caught fish that humans eat are taken by small-scale fishers, many using canoes carved from logs or stationary beach seine nets such as the rampani that dot India's eastern coast.Far from being relics of a bygone age, small-scale fisheries technologies and practices are usually well adapted to the ecological...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.

The South-South Cooperation Forum held at Park Village Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal on 14-16 December 2017 was a success with over 70 participants consisting of farmer leaders, representatives of farmers’ and fishers’ organizations, government officials, scholars from South Asian countries as well as international development partners in attendance. South Asian Association for...

The newsletter of May 2017 includes: Latest report by the European Court of Auditors confirms lack of transparency in the allocation of fishing opportunities LIFE members from Finland, France, Denmark and LIFE staff as ambassadors of European small-scale fisheries at the event organized by Slow Food in Genoa (Italy) Other news from around...

Community Supported Fisheries have been springing up all over the world. They are every bit as much an answer to industrial fishing as CSA is to agriculture. In North America there are already many thousands of members in an organised network, Local Catch.org. The network has much in common with...

There is self-evidently a place and a need for both small and larger scale fishing fleets, but this requires first of all establishing a level playing field that ensures fair access to resources, to markets, to sector support, and to decision taking processes for all fleet segments.

Precaution is needed prior to promoting electric pulse fishing as a more sustainable alternative for traditional beam trawling.

The ocean is one of the main systems of our planetary biosphere. It accounts for almost half of the planet's biological production, but a much smaller proportion of human food – about 2% of overall calorie intake and 15% of protein intake. This is no longer tenable given the nutritional...

After men migrate for work, women of Mousuni Island in the Sundarbans in West Bengal have to struggle for survival, losing land and livelihood to floods and erosion. In Mousuni Island, salinity ingress has rendered agricultural land uncultivable for years. Tidal flooding that occurs twice a month makes it difficult for...

Produção de flores tropicais aliada ao turismo rural levam mais de 200 pessoas por semana para o Rancho Paraná, a 50 Km de Brasília (DF)

About 10 years ago, people in the small village of Gajoldoba on India’s stretch of the trans-boundary Teesta river started noticing significant changes in their environment. Their fields weren’t yielding the same number of crops. The water level in the wells was dropping. And the fish – once so abundant that...

Trip for exchange experience of Ghanians fish operators in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

El Parlamento Latinoamericano y Caribeño (PARLATINO) creó la primera ley modelo de pesca artesanal del mundo, la cual servirá como un ejemplo para que los países fortalezcan este sector clave para la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. La ley modelo es un marco jurídico de referencia que los países pueden utilizar como...

The newsletter of July and August 2017 includes: Portugal at the core of LIFE’s Atlantic strategy LIFE member from Ireland “Heritage Bill” could pass first phase for official approval Other news from around the EU News from our members Press review

This document was developed through a participatory process initiated by FAO, following a series of regional consultations on the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable SmallScale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) during which a request for more information on how to...

The second multiannual fisheries plan under the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) would manage the fisheries of demersal species living near the bottom of the sea and accounting for 70% of catches in the North Sea (zones IIa, IIIa and IV). The management approach covers different species and is tailored...

Aportes de las mujeres en las pesquerías de pequeña escala