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Southeast Asia: Recognize Tenure Rights
Formal recognition of marine tenure provides an incentive for small-scale fishers to form and support the overarching structure for responsible governance
2018 - ICSF
Journal article
Customer experience with farmers’ markets: what hashtags can reveal
What cat hashtags reveal
Social media networks are increasing in popularity and have been integrated into many aspects of daily life. Analysis of the ways in which individuals use social media is important for understanding social, cultural, and environmental issues. This study examines experiences of farmers’ market customers through their self-expression on social networks....
2018 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Article
First Asia Pacific Farmers Forum
YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA – On October 20, 2018, 84 farmer leaders from 21 countries, representing 38 million small scale farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, herders and pastoralists, met with the 37 staff of the IFAD Asia and Pacific Region Division in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for the first Asia Pacific Region Farmers Forum (FAFO). The Forum...
Indonesia
2018 - Asian Farmers' Association
Blog article
ASEAN Member States and UN FAO agree five-year plan to strengthen cooperation in agriculture and forestry and combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
The ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have pledged to collaborate with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in order to strengthen cooperation for improvements to agriculture and forestry.
The ASEAN Member States, with a combined population of more than 640 million –...
Viet Nam
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Newsletter article
Whats new webby?: The Women in Fisheries Network—Fiji
This website is a rich trove of information about the Women in Fisheries Network—Fiji (WiFN-Fiji), a not-for-profit organization working to strengthen the involvement, and improve the conditions, of women in Fiji’s fisheries sector.
Fiji
2017
Report
Report of the Round Table of Women in Small-scale Fisheries in Goa, 19 February 2017, Panaji, Goa. Organized by International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Trust with Saad Aangan
The round table was organized by Saad Aangan, a Goa-based gender resource group, in collaboration with the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (Trust) and was attended by thirty-four participants, all (except one fish farmer) women. The workshop was conducted in Konkani, the language of Goa. The programme commenced with...
India
2017 - Saad Aangan
Blog article
Is an Andhra fishing village being evicted to ‘beautify’ a beach?
A few kilometres from Chirala in Andhra Pradesh, right on the sea shore, is the tiny village of Vadarevu. Usually idyllic, this village is now as tumultuous as the sea, thanks to the threat of eviction that the fisherfolk face.
On Monday, the local police tried and failed to evict nearly...
India
2017
Case study
Supporting sustainable livelihoods and reclaiming degraded land by enhancing agroforestry in Soouthern Shan State
Smallholder farmers particularly in climate vulnerable developing countries such as Myanmar face challenges related to food security and climate change. Research has increasingly pointed toward agro-ecology as a movement with the science and approach suitable to building the resilience of smallholder farmers. Since 2014, the Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development...
Myanmar
2017 - Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development (MIID)
Event
TBTI special sessions on SSF at the 11th Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum
TBTI is planning to organize two special sessions at the 11th Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum, which will be held on August 3-7, in Bangkok, Thailand. The theme of the 11th AFAF is ASEAN Seafood for the World & Asian Food Security for the World. Presentations and discussion will be...
Thailand
2017
Newsletter article
Yemaya recommends: community fisheries organizations of Cambodia: Sharing processes, results and lessons learned in the context of the implementation of the SSF Guidelines
This booklet, authored by John Kurien and published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, brings together important insights on community empowerment in the traditional fisheries in Cambodia gleaned through field work and consultations undertaken between 2012 and 2015.
Cambodia
2017
Blog article
Saving the coastline
Coastal erosion and accretion are natural processes. However, such instances have becomeabnormally highdue to human activities and sea-level rise.
2017
Event
Inclusive Agricultural Value Chain for Coffee
Coffee farmers from various organisations in Southeast Asia gathered in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on 19-21 July 2017 to showcase their produce, share their experiences in farming, and to exchange knowledge to improve the marketing of their products for the ASEAN Learning Series and Policy Engagement on Agricultural Cooperative (ALSPEAC).
The coffee farmers...
Indonesia
2017 - ALSPEAC
Blog article
Voices for fish
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.
Myanmar
2017
Case study
GIAHS in Japan: Sado Island Agriculture in Harmony with Endangered Japanese Crested Ibis
The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) programme, launched as an initiative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2002, provides international recognition to important traditional agricultural systems (including forestry and fisheries) which conserve agrobiodiversity, indigenous knowledge, culture heritage and agricultural landscapes. Today (as of August 2017), there...
Japan
2017 - United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)
Case study
PGS – enabling organic production system for small holders
Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) have been established to help the hundreds of smallholder farmers in India who are unable to gain cost-prohibitive certifications for organic farming. These systems allow access to a fair and transparent market system and grant farmers a direct stake holding in the supply chain of clean...
India
2017
Blog article
Building resilience to climate change in Laos
Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is highly susceptible to climate change and natural hazards, particularly to flood and drought conditions which seriously affect the country’s agricultural production. Although gradually declining in terms of its contribution to GDP in recent years, agriculture continues to play a major role in Lao...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
Flood-Ravaged Islands of Sundarbans Need Women-Centric Interventions
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...
2017
Report
Report on the International Symposium on Agroecology for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems in China
In September 2014 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) convened the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition. This was followed in 2015 by three regional meetings in Brazil, Senegal and Thailand. These meetings brought together stakeholders from academia, policy and civil society to...
China
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
The Teesta Is Dying, But These Communities Are Rallying To Keep It Alive
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...
India
2017
Event
Harnessing the Power of Data for the Sustainable Development Goals
Held for the first time in India, the 2017 ICT4D Conference: From Innovation to Impact will bring together public, private and civil society organizations from across the humanitarian and international development community to not only discuss the latest trends in digital inclusion but the wider use of data to support achievement of...
India
2017
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