Third session of the SIDS Solutions Dialogue Forum focuses on Fisheries and Aquaculture in SIDS
Globally, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) represent over 66 percent of countries with the highest relative annual losses due to disasters. Due to their small economies and particular geography, SIDS are extremely vulnerable to disasters. This devastating trajectory for SIDS is set to continue in the years to come as climate change is making these disasters more frequent and intense.
FAO's support to SIDS includes integrating resilience building measures in agricultural development planning by developing capacities for disaster impact monitoring in agriculture, improving resilience and sustainability of agrifood systems and strengthening coherence between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation processes.
This webinar provided a general overview of fisheries in SIDS. The main objective was to discuss the challenges SIDS face in strengthening the resilience of fisheries, propose solutions in line with FAO’s Blue transformation vision, and highlight the importance of transforming aquatic food systems for better production, better nutrition, better environment and better lives, leaving no one behind.
Programme:
Moderator: Ms. Angélica Jácome, Director, Office of SIDS, LDCs and LLDCs, FAO
Speakers
Mr. Manuel Barange, Director Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, FAO
Mr Samuel K. Jr. Lanwi, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Marshall Islands to the UN in Geneva
Mr Satish Kumar Khadun, Assistant Director of Fisheries in the Ministry of Blue Economy, Marine Resources, Fisheries and Shipping of Mauritius
Ms. Yvette Diei Ouadi, Fishery Officer, FAO Subregional Office for the Caribbean
H.E. Ms. Harriet Sena Siaw-Boateng, Ambassador of the Republic of Ghana to Belgium, Permanent Representative of Ghana to the European Union, Chair of the OACPS Working Group on Fisheries
The recording of the third session of the SIDS Solutions Dialogue series can be seen here. Please use the password: !x*2J56c
More about the SIDS Solutions Dialogue series
The SIDS Solutions Dialogue series is jointly organized by the FAO Liaison Offices in Brussels, Geneva, and New York, together with the FAO Office of SIDS, LDCs and LLDCs. The FAO Global SIDS Solutions Dialogue aims to inform governments and development partners in these three international hubs of the outcomes of the SIDS Solutions Forum. The Dialogue is set to be a kick-off of a series of thematic events on food and agriculture in SIDS throughout the next two year
Related links:
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) 2022 Report
2022 the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022)