The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) and the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), including its Mediterranean regional projects, are organizing in partnership with CIHEAM-Bari, MedPAN, WWFand in collaboration with the Government of Algeria a Regional Conference on “Building a future for sustainable small-scale fisheries...

In May 2016, a total of 1702 records were available in the SOTA ISSF layer. Among them, 61% are found to be peer-reviewed papers, 20% reports, 10% books or books chapters, and 3% conference proceedings. Information on SSF are also disseminated through newsletters, PhD theses, documentaries, monographs, handbooks, or teaching...

The newsletter of August and September 2016 includes: LIFE presents its contribution to the “Extraordinary Plan for the Management of the Mediterranean Spanish coast” for 2017-2019 to the Spanish Ministry The Low Impact Fishers of Baltic Countries present their Action Plan to the EU Commission Other news from around the EU News from our...

On Monday 10th october 2016, The Council reached a political agreement on the fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea for 2017. Following these important decisions, the Low Impact Fishers of Europe issue a statement to express their view on the way forward to ensure sustainable and viable fisheries in the Region in 2017...

This research develops four case studies on small-scale fisheries in Central America located within indigenous territories. The ngöbe Bugle Conte Burica Territory in the south of Costa Rica, the Garífuna territory in nueva Armenia Honduras, the Rama territory in Nicaragua and the ngöbe Bugle territory in Bocas del Toro, Panamá....

The Association in Defence of Mediterranean Artisanal Fisheries (ADPAM), the Regional Federation of Canary Island Fishing Cofradias, the Gaia Oceans Association, the Tarragona Fishing Cofradia and the Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) met in Tarragona to ask that Bluefin tuna quoas are assigned by ICAAT specifically to the coastal small...

The report of the proceedings of the New Delhi workshop on the SSF Guidelines (Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication). The workshop brought together 95 participants from 13 states representing civil society organizations. governments, FAO, and fishworker organizations from both...

LIFE staff and members will meet with DG Mare services on 19th October in a multi-stakeholder consultation ahead of the ahead of the 20th Special Meeting of ICCAT in Portugal, November 14 to 21. Ahead of the stakeholder meeting, LIFE sent a letter to Commissioner Vella calling for a dedicated small scale fishing quota.

Greater visibility and recognition of inland fi reater visibility and recognition of inland fi sheries could redeem small-scale fi sheries could redeem small-scale fi shers and fishworkers from being amongst the most impoverished class of community

La priorité actuelle c'est la protection du métier de la pêche artisanale que beaucoup de gens quittent en raison du manque de la ressource et des conflits d'intérêts en mer entre les grands bateaux de pêche et les petits

Este documento describe el proceso para diseñar un sistema de monitoreo ambiental integrado en el Estero Real, Chinandega, Nicaragua entre el 2012 y 2014, tendiente a prevenir los efectos del cambio climático en las comunidades pesqueras y acuícolas más vulnerables y poner en práctica un sistema de alerta temprana ante...

Inland fisheries are almost all small-scale fisheries (SSF). The problems of inland fisheries are SSF problems and include access rights, tenure, gender, social welfare and empowerment. More than 60 mn people rely on inland fisheries for at least part of their livelihood and about half of them are women. An...

For the indigenous peoples of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the ‘fi sh province’ of the Russian Federation, fi ghting for their rights to access fi shing resources is crucial

Odxel, Cacra, Nauxi, Bambolim and Siridao are small fishing villages running from north to south along the western coast of Tiswadi taluka (an administrative district for taxation purposes) of the Indian state of Goa. They lie on the banks of the Zuari river, which, at 92 km in length, is...

Small-scale fishing communities in South Africa have to cope with unequal power relations as they seek effective means for the implementation of the SSF Guidelines

Integral to achieving the SSF Guidelines goal of targeting the most vulnerable and marginalized persons and eliminating discrimination is the need to have adequate understanding of the power relations and intersectionalities that shape access to and control over marine and other resources according to gender, age, race, ethnicity, labour and...

L’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture (FAO) et le Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement (PNUD) lancent le projet de renforcement des capacités des producteurs des districts de Nzambi et de Madingo-kayes, situés dans le département du Kouilou au sud-ouest du Congo, dans les domaines de l’agriculture,...

Despite feeding the world and providing resilience to natural disasters, peasant seed systems face severe threats due to the appropriation of nature by corporations and the accelerated destruction of agricultural biodiversity. Increasingly, seed and agrochemical businesses seek to privatize, monopolize and control seeds by patenting and commodifying this very source...

The newsletter of october 2016 of the Low Impact Fishers of Europe. 

Feeding a rapidly increasing global population means that we will need to produce more food in a more efficient and sustainable manner. Fewer inputs must be used to achieve greater yields. The real challenge is not just in producing more, but in doing so against a backdrop of climate change...