Protecting the wellbeing of small-scale fishing communities and their human rights crucially involves protecting the rights of women in fisheries. After decades of concern with addressing environmental sustainability issues in global fisheries, recent investigative journalism has brought increased attention to human rights violations in seafood supply chains, including human trafficking, forced...

In order to preserve their livelihoods, women processors in Senegal have come together to oppose the Tosyali steel project. Since 2009, women fish processors of Khelcom in the traditional municipality of Bargny, about 35km from Dakar, have been facing the aftermath of development projects that jeopardise their environment, health, security and...

The 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) of the United Nations took place from 15 to 26 March 2021. The theme of the session was: “Women’s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender...

The European Network of Women in Fisheries and Aquaculture in Europe (AKTEA) urges the Office of the Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries to integrate gender into all aspects of European fishing policy. On 8 March International Women’s Day, AKTEA wrote a letter to Commissioner VirginijusSinkevi?ius, Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans...

Linda came to Alaska in 1982 after her first year of college with a love of wilderness and vague ideas of earning money for college by working on commercial fishing boats. She landed her first job when a deckhand failed to show up after a night of drinking, and the...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has just published the latest issue of SAMUDRA Report, its triannual journal on fisheries, communities and livelohoods. The current edition, SAMUDRA Report No. 84, dated December 2020, features a range of articles from countries around the world like Peru, Kiribati, Belize, France,...

En el presente número se analiza el comportamiento del comercio de productos agrícolas y pesqueros durante la crisis, especialmente de los destinados a la alimentación, e intentaremos identificar las razones de esta evolución. De la misma manera, se identifican las principales recomendaciones para fortalecer una tendencia positiva en la comercialización....

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has released the latest edition of Yemaya, its newsletter on gender and fisheries. Yemaya No. 62, dated December 2020, features articles from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Ghana, Mexco and the conversation between Meryl Williams, Danika Klieber and Kate Bevitt. The article from Bangladesh by Md. Mujibul...

Publicación virtual de un nuevo número de Yemaya, la revista del CIAPA sobre el género en la pesca, en castellano. El último número de Yemaya (núm.61), la revista del Colectivo Internacional de Apoyo al Pescador Artesanal (CIAPA) sobre temas de género en la pesca, publicado en inglés en agosto de 2020,...

L’ICSF vient également de publier le no 61 du bulletin YEMAYA sur les questions de genre dans la pêche:https://www.icsf.net/en/yemaya/article/FR/61.html?limitstart=0 Les articles viennent du Brésil, du Costa Rica, de la France, de l’Inde, de l’Indonésie, du Mexique, du Sénégal. L’éditorial traite de pêches artisanales et sécurité alimentaire. Et une série de photos...

In March 2020, a regional inception workshop was held in Ghana a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) entitled Enhancing the contribution of small-scale fisheries to food security and sustainable livelihoods through better policies, strategies and...

Le nouveau numéro de la revue SAMUDRA - publication quadrimestrielle du Collectif international d’appui à la pêche artisanale (ICSF) - est disponible en ligne sur https://www.icsf.net/en/samudra/article/FR/83.html?limitstart=0. Il s’agit d’un numéro spécial qui vient s’ajouter à la campagne de l’ICSF visant à bien mettre en évidence tout ce qu’apporte la pêche artisanale...

Publicación virtual de un nuevo número de la Revista SAMUDRA en castellano. El último número de la Revista SAMUDRA, publicación cuatrimestral del Colectivo Internacional de Apoyo al Pescador Artesanal (CIAPA), se encuentra disponible en lengua española en:  

The World Health Organization (WHO) characterized COVID-19 a pandemic on 11 March, 2020. Two weeks later, a nationwide lockdown was announced in India, to ensure consistency in the application and implementation of pandemic control measures. The lockdown adversely affected numerous fishers and fishworkers and their families. Being contact-intensive, small-scale fisheries...

The 36-page 2019 annual report lays out the 23-year-old organization’s accomplishments in 2019 and goals for both its pre-competitive advocacy and education work as well as its industry-leading third-party aquaculture certification program, Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP). Each activity outlined in the report supports progress toward GAA’s vision: A world that embraces and...

We follow the trend set in April and May, and offer you another special edition of the SSF Update. This time we take you to Sub-Saharan Africa and give you some insights into regional initiatives to implement the SSF Guidelines there.

This e-update is provided through the FAO Technical Network on Small-Scale Fisheries. It informs about recent and upcoming developments in relation to the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines). The aim is to capture FAO-initiated developments as...

This report explores the politics and practices of small-scale fisheries (SSF) in the context of the global movement for agroecology and food sovereignty. It frames the policy context and explains the challenges related to SSF initiatives and communities and how they organize to address them. It shows how alternative food...

The FAO-SSF Umbrella Programme offers a platform to provide direction for the formulation of small-scale fisheries policies, strategies and legislation in many developing countries

 The main purpose of the study was to determine the extent of use of fish farming practices by the fish farmers. This study was conducted at three unions named Hapania, Kirtipur, and Tilakpur of Naogaon Sadar upazilla under Naogaon district. Ninety-two (92) fish farmers were randomly selected as sample from...