The Development Law Service (LEGN) and the Equitable Livelihoods team (NFIFL) of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division jointly launched SSF-LEX at the 4th World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress - African region. SSF-LEX is the new policy...

  In your opinion, what are the main human rights issues facing small-scale fishers and fish farmers, fish workers, and their communities? Globally small-scale fishers, fish farmers, fish workers and their communities...

CAFI SSF Webinar Talk Series was organized on 11 November 2022. The webinar topic for discussion was Access to finance for empowering women in small-scale fisheries value chain. It was...

  The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) have a chapter dedicated to information, research, and communication, that provides...

Aquatic foods - animals, plants and algae harvested from freshwater and marine environments - contribute substantially to food systems globally. These foods supply protein to over 3.2 billion people, are...

Bagans for catching anchovy by Stephanus Mandagi, PhD & Christofel Rotinsulu Anchovies have been the main target for migrant fishers in Raja Ampat, West Papua Province of Indonesia. For the last three...

  One of the pillars of IYAFA’s Global action plan is on food security and nutrition. How do you think the International Year contributes to acknowledging, strengthening, and promoting the contribution...

by Lena Westlund and Molly Ahern Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture and related value chains provide employment for millions of people (FAO, 2012; Thompson and Subasinghe, 2011). Fish harvested by small-scale fishers...

© Nelson Avdalov The burden of hunger and malnutrition, on school-aged children and adolescents are major constraints in achieving global food security and nutrition. Home-grown school feeding (HGSF) is...

Inland fisheries and their associated ecosystem services make valuable contributions to achieving several of the SDGs including SDG 1 (No poverty), SDG 2 (Zero hunger), SDG 14 (Life below water) and SDG 15...

Due to its economic value and great size (reaching up to 150 cm in length), the striped catfish (Pseudoplatystoma magdaleniatum) is one of the emblematic species of the Magdalena River...

Sustainable inland fisheries rely on healthy aquatic ecosystems for the capacity to deliver the food, water, and habitat. These services cannot be ensured by the fisheries sector alone and managing...

  We sat down with professor Jeppe Kolding to learn more about the relation between Inland fisheries, nutrition and economic development, why we should pay more attention to this sector, and...

The Kiribati Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with INFOFISH and The Pacific Community (SPC) joined...

  How are artisanal fisheries and aquaculture related to the culture of indigenous peoples and how do these practices contribute to their livelihoods? For many of our Peoples, the Earth is the...

  Written by Liseth Escobar- FAO’s Indigenous Peoples Unite. Inputs from Lilia Java, Indigenous leader of the Tikuna, Cocama and Yagua Indigenous Territory. In the south of the Colombian Amazon, along the...

  In this interview, Zoila Bustamante Cardenas, a fisherwoman from Chile, explains the fundamental role associations, organisations and fisherfolk groups have to increase the resilience of artisanal fisheries and aquaculture.   The..

  The FAO supported initiative, Global Network for Capacity Building to Increase Access of Small-Scale Fisheries to  Financial Services (CAFI-SSF) in association with Asia-Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA) organ

  Climate change is impacting food production from freshwater, coastal and open ocean marine ecosystems, and small-scale fishing and fish farming communities in developing countries are among the most vulnerable. In...

  Lisbon, 27 June 2022 – The side event dedicated to the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA) 2022 at the 2022 UN Oceans Conference brought together different stakeholders...