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.

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...

Cambodia’s community fisheries initiative is the most extensive and well-developed system of community fisheries in the world. The current fishery rights system in Cambodia is the most extensive and well-developed system of community fisheries in the world”, said the European Union (EU) Representative to Cambodia at the FAO/UN User Rights 2015...

Two-year EU-funded project supporting small-scale fishers across the Baltic and North Sea celebrates its closure with well attended gathering in Brussels. 

“Survive and Thrive: Adding Value to Fisheries Policy and Production for Small Scale Fishers”  

“Women” and “fishing” are two words that would not have been used together in the same sentence a few years ago in Rwanda. It has been a long-held belief in Rwanda that fishing is not for women – it is a man’s occupation. Women have mostly embraced this thinking as well, but...

The newsletter of December 2017 & January 2018 includes: Large-scale project for the Mediterranean to be led by LIFE for three years with the support of the MAVA Foundation, Massive support to LIFE for the vote on pulse fishing, Other news from around the EU, News from our members as well as Press review