Twenty years of organising by women in Europe’s fisheries have led to important gains, challenges and opportunities. In Europe, fisheries are considered a male activity, as men represent the main labour force on fishing vessels. This stereotype has dominated European society for many decades, despite the fact that several social scientists...

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

A Norwegian research vessel, working for the EAF-Nansen Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has made a port call in Thailand as part of a regional survey of marine resources, ecosystems and environment in the Bay of Bengal. The port call marks the beginning of...

Women and men in fishing communities in South India work together to generate important beach related data. India’s 7,500 km coastline is a hotbed of transformation. The ‘Territorial Sea’, where fishing is allowed, provides an exclusive economic zone in the ocean, 60 per cent the size of its land area....

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

The Indian poet, Bhupen Hazarika’s soul-stirring composition ‘O Ganga Boicho Keno (Oh Ganges, why do you flow?),’ inspired by Paul Robeson’s “Ol’ Man River”, plays as we see footage of communities facing irrecoverable loss of their homes, lands and assets by an aggressively advancing river.Women at the Water’s Edge is...

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

As many developing countries are as yet unable to harness the full potential of agricultural innovation, collective actions are required to remove barriers and address the constraints (technological, social, organizational, policy, etc.) that stifle the capacity of family farmers, and of other stakeholders in agriculture and food systems, to innovate. To...

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

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

With the health of our oceans at stake, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has quickly become a monumental problem. The term “IUU fishing” is used for any fishing activities that operate outside of the law. There are many types of IUU fishing, for example, fishing without license or authorization,...

Rice-fish systems are common in many South and Southeast Asian countries as well as some areas of Africa. The systems are diverse, spanning capture fisheries and aquaculture, with fish and rice growing concurrently in rice fields and canals or, alternatively, fish raised between rice crops. FISH has developed several approaches to...

n the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, aquaculture is an active and growing sector which plays a major role in achieving food security, employment and economic development while reducing the dependence on often overexploited wild stocks. According to some national aquaculture strategies, the production in Mediterranean and Black Sea riparian...

Objetivos de la reunión El DRANIBA ofrecerá un espacio intersectorial de intercambio y discusión que permita abordar los temas de producción sostenible en los sectores agropecuario, forestal y pesquero con integración de criterios que contribuyan al uso sostenible, conservación, restauración y preservación de la biodiversidad en la región. Para esto: Se revisarán las...

Las presentes Directrices voluntarias para lograr la sostenibilidad de la pesca en pequeña escala en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria y la erradicación de la pobreza se han elaborado como complemento del Código de Conducta de la FAO para la Pesca Responsable (en adelante, el Código) de 1995. Se...

Convocatoria de Fontagro ​(Mecanismo de Cooperación entre países de América Latina y el Caribe y España), que desde el pasado 1 de Marzo y hasta el 30 de Abril de 2018 está abierta, denominada “Escalamiento de Innovaciones para el mejoramiento de la agricultura familiar en América Latina y el Caribe”....

Small-scale fishers of the Baltic and North Sea explain about their experience in the framework of the two-year EU-funded project „Support measures for small-scale fishing in the Baltic and North Sea”

Bringing together the wider community of scientists and experts working on fisheries and the marine environment in the Mediterranean and Black Sea in order to build a lasting network, discuss advancements in research, integrate scientific knowledge in support of decision-makingand identify research priorities for the coming decade.

The Regional Plan of Action for Small-scale Fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea is a model for other regional fisheries management organizations. For the first time since the endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (the...

On 26 September in Malta, 18 Mediterranean and Black Sea coastal states committed themselves to developing “objectives, principles and concrete actions” to be applied across the region through a regional plan of action (RPOA) and thus “to ensure the long-term environmental, economic and social sustainability of small-scale fisheries”. Such a...