The importance of the coasts and the oceans to human life is undisputable. Humans have inhabited the coasts for millennia, with several coastal communities around the world having a deep sense of history and intimate cultural relationship with the coasts and oceans. These resources are vital for our livelihood, nutrition and overall health of our planet mother earth. Of late, ...
It is no secret that the Small Scale fishers are the people who are engaged in one of the most dangerous and risky employment in the world and their family members, women, children are the least recognize citizens in any country. Socially this fisheries job has been rather looked down in the society and fisher themselves experience this discrimination and ...
Small-scale fisheries and sustainable development: A Summary extracted from UN FAO – Key findings from the Illuminating Hidden Harvests report Small-scale fisheries account for at least 40 percent of global fisheries catch. 90 percent of the people employed along capture fisheries value chains operate in small-scale fisheries. 45 million women participate in small-scale fisheries, including for subsistence. ...
Enclosed are the outcomes of the Coastal Climate Forum, providing a platform for dialogue across all KNTI bases and gathering thousands of fisherfolk and stakeholders in the fisheries sector. The forum addressed shared challenges in coastal communities, emphasizing the importance of collaborative efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Insights from diverse regions showcased adaptive strategies, underscoring the significance ...
Small-scale fishers are essential for feeding the world. Still, they are not properly recognized by most governments and institutions. In a context of rising hunger and food insecurity, this cannot be accepted anymore. We have to invest in SSF communities through dedicated policy actions, in order to give them relief from the pressure of climate change, the fishing industry and ...
Written by – Food Sovereignty Working Group of the World Forum Of Fisher People,2019 In November 2018, some WFFP members met in Thessaloniki, Greece, to take forward the GA7 resolution on Food Sovereignty. In this meeting, it was agreed that, in order to deepen the Food Sovereignty agenda in WFFP, it is necessary to establish a dialogue process. The objective ...
Jusqu’à récemment, les voix de millions de pêcheurs artisanaux dans les eaux intérieures, les principaux utilisateurs des ressources en eau douce et des cours d’eau intérieurs, restaient sans écho. En effet, les quelques études sur la pêche artisanale continentale, au niveau international et au niveau local et national, ont été principalement réalisées dans le milieu universitaire et celui des entreprises. ...
Until recently, the voices of millions of inland small-scale fishers, the primary users of freshwater resources and inland streams have been unheard. With the efforts of the WFFP working group on Inland Fishing and their first ever report on this neglected topic, time has come for a change. In most countries around the world, almost all fisheries management policies are ...
The importance of Food Sovereignty – as a means, a goal, and a global movement – is long recognized by the WFFP leadership: Food Sovereignty is a political agenda of small-scale food producers in the defense of our rivers, lakes, oceans and land. It is a response to the encroachment of our food system by multinational corporations who, in the ...
The Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) and the Rights-Based Approach (RBA) to fisheries represent two very different and contradictory approaches. Where the RBA with its focus on, so-called, ‘economic efficiency’ has led to widespread social disruption in fishing communities, the HRBA has profoundly positive structural, political, material, and cultural implications if implemented fully. As such, the HRBA to fisheries is ...