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Sri Lanka/Co-operatives: Wellbeing Aspirations
Fisheries co-operatives in Sri Lanka need to be restructured into true co-management platforms to ensure the sustainable use of coastal zone resources
Sri Lanka
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de revue spécialisée
India/Cyclone Ockhi: A Stitch in Time
Cyclone Ockhi, which hit southern India late last year, brought out the need to empower communities to manage risks through locally owned and locally appropriate approaches
India
2018 - ICSF
Ouvrage
Promoting Indigenous Knowledge and Good Agricultural Practices in Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change is one of the most important challenges to sustainable development in the Northern mountainous region of Vietnam.
IK is also used in cultivation techniques in extreme climatic conditions. With cultivation conditions are mainly sloping land, many traditional techniques have been applied to limit soil erosion due to heavy rainfalls...
Viet Nam
2018 - ALiSEA
Revue spécialisée
IFISH5: Connecting the Dots
The largest conference on occupational safety and health in the fishing industry returns after a gap of nine years
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Rapport
Impact Stories from MTCP2 Pacific
The following are stories about farmers and farmer organizations in the Pacific. They reflect some of the impacts of a five-year funding programme (2014-2018) that has changed the way farmer organizations operate in the Pacific Islands. Stories like these have become common in farmer organizations across the region. What follows...
2018 - Pacific Farmers Organization
Article de revue spécialisée
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
Article de revue spécialisée
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
Article de blog
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
Article du bulletin d’information
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
Rapport
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
Article de blog
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
Étude de cas
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)
Événement
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
Article du bulletin d’information
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
Article de blog
Saving the coastline
Coastal erosion and accretion are natural processes. However, such instances have becomeabnormally highdue to human activities and sea-level rise.
2017
Événement
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
Article de blog
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
Étude de cas
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)
Article de blog
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
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