Este Informe es un estudio preliminar, realizado en corto tiempo para conocer algo más sobre la población de pescadores, sus familias y sus tan diversos oficios. Obedeció a un intento de caracterización que permitiera a los proyectos FAO focalizar mejor la oferta de capacitación y el apoyo financiero a emprendimientos...

Fish and fishery products make an enormous contribution to the nutrition and wellbeing of the peoples of Asia and the Pacific region, possibly exceeding their contribution in any other region of the world. The quantities produced and the sheer diversity of species and products from inland and marine waters that...

The First Regional Symposium on Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea was organized from 27 to 30 November 2013 by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) in partnership with the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) – Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (MAIB),...

The Regional Conference on food security and income generation through reduction of losses and waste in fisheries was held from 15 to 17 December 2013 at the Wissal Hotel, Nouakchott, Islamic Republic of Mauritania. It was jointly convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the...

The primary objective of this paper is to identify if smallholders are participating in the growth of the shrimp aquaculture industry in Indonesia, a modern globalized agriculture sector that is characterized by (1) bi-modal size distribution of farms — at one end is a large mass of small household farms,...

This workshop 'Women Fish Vendors in Mumbai', was a platform to analyze issues facing women fish vendors in Mumbai and to discuss, based on their proposals, strategies that may be adopted to secure their livelihoods. Held on 3rd December, 2012 the workshop brought together representatives of the Maharashtra Fisheries Department,...

Se presentan los resultados del análisis de informes nacionales y documentos de 16 países de América Latina (Argentina, Belice, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú y Uruguay) relacionados con la aplicación de un instrumento armonizado de diagnóstico para la Acuicultura de...

The year 2013 is of particular importance: it is the year we celebrate the International Year of Quinoa (IYQ), and we formally begin to prepare for the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) in 2014. Quinoa and Family Farming go hand in hand: both can contribute substantially toward the fight against hunger. However, to tap their...

The aim of the workshop is to examine various types of standards and labels and to build upon lessons learned from concrete examples to identify issues and challenges to be addressed, discuss their potential contribution to improve sustainability of food systems, and propose measures in order to improve their effectiveness....

Este documento presenta de forma interactiva la importancia de las mujeres en la pesca artesanal de Centroamérica, describiendo sus actividades, estadísticas regionales y detallando los derechos de las mujeres.

The aim of the workshop is to examine various types of standards and labels and to build upon lessons learned from concrete examples to identify issues and challenges to be addressed, discuss their potential contribution to improve sustainability of food systems, and propose measures in order to improve their effectiveness....

This document has been prepared with the generous support of the Federal Office for Agriculture of Switzerland. The document includes a series of four working papers seeking to support discussions on the green economy of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) process. The draft papers were presented and...

Cooperatives in the small-scale fisheries sector are a way of maximizing long-term community benefits to deal with the threats of fisheries mismanagement, livelihood insecurity and poverty – harsh realities for many of the world’s small-scale fishers. Communities with successful community-based organizations are better off than those without (Ostrom, 1990). Successful...

The mission to Palau and Guam, carried out under the project TCP/PAL/3301, was part of the initiative of FAO to establish a subregional aquaculture network in Micronesia. It was the latest activity in a process that drew impetus from a meeting called “Building on Progress: An Evening on Pacific Aquaculture”...

The RECOFI Workshop on Social and Economic Aspects of Fisheries in the RECOFI region was held in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain from 22 to 24 April 2012, following the agreement at the sixth session of the Regional Commission for Fisheries held in Rome from 10 to 12 May 2011. The...

The 5000 odd women who free-dive to collect seaweed in the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park off the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu find themselves struggling for their livelihoods now that their activities have been greatly curtailed. The Gulf of Mannar was declared a marine national park in...

This article describes the patterns of occupational mobility of hake fishermen through a quantitative analysis of their occupational aspirations and expectations. The methodology considers the use of secondary data collected through a survey administered to 302 fishermen applied in inlets of the Bio Bio Region in Chile. The results indicate...

This report provides information and analysis, both of the current situation and context of the agri-food sector and the outlook for 2013. This is a joint effort developed for a fourth consecutive year by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (eclac), the Regional Office for Latin America...

The State of Land and Water Resources (SOLAW) is FAO's first flagship publication onthe global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every 3 to 5 years, and targeted at senior level decision makers in agriculture as well as in other sectors. SOLAW...

El estudio analiza las dimensiones sociales de la conservación marina en Centroamérica. Explora la percepción de las personas residentes en las comunidades costeras vinculadas a los espacios marinos protegidos en Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Panamá. Profundiza, a partir de estudios de caso y análisis comparativo, en temas de gobernanza,...