Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines avaliable in six languages

We are excited to  learn that the final version of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) is now available online and in six different languages on the FAO website. Follow these links for English, French and Spanish versions. These Guidelines are the first negotiated international instrument dedicated specifically to small-scale ...

The role of small-scale fisheries in promoting Nutrition worldwide

  Despite fish being a key component in nutrition and food security in the world, small scale fisheries have never been a major focus in conferences on nutrition. This November saw the second international conference on nutrition hosted by FAO and WHO, and the WFFP represented small scale fishers worldwide as part of a group of social movements present. Members ...

World Fisheries Day 2014: Masifundise&Coastal Links South Africas national gender workshop

This world fisheries Day Masifundise Development Trust and Coastal Links embarked on a national gender workshop to brainstorm how ocean grabbing affects women in South Africa and how women can resist.  Women from all four coastal provinces in South Africa met in Patenoster on the West Coast of South Africa. The workshop kicked off with presentations on ocean grabbing globallyand its ...

World Fisheries Day 2014: Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum’s week of action

  The Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) took to the streets this November to raise awareness about ocean grabbing and to promote the  implementation of the voluntary guidelines for small scale fisheries. Quoting the PFF “World Fisheries day is celebrated every year on November 21 throughout the world by fisherfolk communities. Fishing communities worldwide celebrate this day through rallies, workshops, public meetings, cultural ...

World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) statement on the ebola crisis in West Africa

World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) calls for increased support for communities struck by Ebola The World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) has called for an accelerated action to support West African communities devastated by the scourge of Ebola. Abdul Koroma, Secretary General of the The Sierra Leone Artisanal Fishers Union (SLAFU), a member organisation of the WFFP, has informed ...

Op-Ed: Ocean grabbing: a new wave of twenty first century enclosures

Ocean grabbing: a new wave of twenty first century enclosures    Published: in OpenDemocracy   17 October 2014 In their article published in Open Democracy Nick Buxton, Carsten Pedersen and Mads Christian Barbesgaard alert us to the issue of ocean grabbing and call for an end to the privatisation of the oceans. They argue that the rise of market-based fishing policies that ...

World Fishers represented at the UN Commitee on World Food Security Oct 2014

Small-scale fishers world wide were on the agenda this week when General Secretary of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples, Naseegh Jaffer  represented the WFFP at the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS).                   The WFFP’s statement read to the plenary session of the UN Committee on World Food Security argues that “the strategically important contribution ...

Statement read to the plenary session of the UN Committee on Food Security, October 2014

Statement made by: Naseegh Jaffer For the Global Civil Society Group (incorporating WFFP) President, on behalf of the Civil Society Mechanism, we warmly welcome the initiative of the FAO Committee on Food Security to organize a policy round table on “Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture for food security and nutrition”, and we commend the report of the High Level Panel of Experts on ...