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Untold stories: Female fishers, processes and business owners share their stories
Type: Blog
Globally, women and girls play a vital role in ensuring the sustainability of rural households and communities, improving rural livelihoods and overall wellbeing. Here we shine a light on several women who work as fishers, ...
Lessons from the Pacific about balancing community and environmental needs
Type: Blog
Blog entry for the journal on the CoralCOE website: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ‘Sixteen years of social and ecological dynamics reveal challenges and opportunities for adaptive management in sustaining ...
Lived experiences: Small-scale fishers and fishworkers share their stories
Type: Blog
Millions of people across the globe work in and around small-scale fisheries, which provides them and their communities with vital income, food and nutrition and sustains their culture. Here, we hear from fishers and ...
SSF Guidelines represent voyage of struggle, empathy and support
Type: Blog
Blogpost about the journey of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines, featuring quotes from John Kurien
CGIAR Research Program for Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) ends with a splash
Type: Blog
FISH provided compelling new evidence on the critical role of fish and other aquatic foods in improving food and nutrition security, reducing poverty and enhancing environmental sustainability through its five years of ...
Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Hunter Snyder
Type: Blog
Hunter Snyder is a PhD candidate with Dartmouth College in the United States and an FAO consultant. Within the IHH study, Snyder contributed to the Greenland case study and led the thematic study on the carbon footprint ...
Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Kristie Alleyne
Type: Blog
Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development is a collaborative study led by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Duke University, and WorldFish. In this ...
Protecting and restoring our oceans for future generations
Type: Blog
Ghost fishing equipment accounts for roughly 10 percent of debris in the ocean.
Through training under the ECOFISH II project, 300 boat skippers are taught of the pivotal role they play in protecting our oceans and ...
Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Sergio Macedo Gomes de Mattos
Type: Blog
Dr. Sergio Macedo Gomes de Mattos, who works for the Brazilian Artisanal Fishing Network (Teia de Redes da Pesca Artesanal do Brasil), was a contributing author to the marine part of the IHH Brazil case study. Mattos has ...
Raising a unified voice: Supporting African small-scale fishers and fish workers to be heard
Type: Blog
Forty representatives of fisheries and regional organizations from across Africa have called for the strengthening of existing small-scale fisheries bodies and the creation of a new pan-African platform. These actions are ...