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Building adaptive capacity to climate change; approaches applied in five diverse fisheries settings
Type: Brief
Climate change poses a range of risks to coastal and inland rural communities in the global tropics. People living within these communities depend directly on physical and natural environments for income, food and their ...
Identifying Policy Best-Practices to Support the Contribution of Aquatic Foods to Food and Nutrition Security
Type: Journal Article
The relationship between aquatic foods and food nutrition and security is increasingly recognised in policy and practice, yet many governance instruments do not acknowledge or support this important connection. The most ...
Small-scale fisheries as integral and integrated in the Sustainable Development Goals
Type: Blog
Wrap-up blogpost about the key points and takeaway messages emerging from the Small is Bountiful panel discussion on SSF and SDGs
Illuminating Hidden Harvests in Ocean Action newsletter (vol. 13)
Type: Newsletter
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization, WorldFish and Duke University committed to working in partnership with global experts to assess and quantify the contributions of small-scale fisheries (SSF) to the three pillars ...
Illuminating hidden harvests: The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development
Type: Presentation
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) employ over 90 percent of fishers and fish workers worldwide and, among these, 96 percent live in developing countries where they produce almost as much fish for direct domestic consumption as ...
Through their eyes: Fishing communities voice their stories through photos
Type: Blog
From the coast of Peru to the shores of Lake Chilwa in Malawi to fresh produce markets in Vietnam, small-scale fisheries provide vital income, food, nutrition and a sense of identity. Here we share photos and voices of ...
Fish traders and processors network: Enhancing trade and market access for small-scale fisheries in the West Central Gulf of Guinea
Type: Working Paper
From 2014 to 2018, the Fish Trade Project (a joint project of the WorldFish Center, the African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources, and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development) implemented trade and ...
Recognize fish as food in policy discourse and development funding
Type: Journal Article
The international development community is off-track from meeting targets for alleviating global malnutrition. Meanwhile, there is growing consensus across scientific disciplines that fish plays a crucial role in food and ...
Blind spots in visions of a ‘‘blue economy’’ could undermine the ocean’s contribution to eliminating hunger and malnutrition
Type: Journal Article
Increasing the production of food from the ocean is seen as a pathway toward more sustainable and healthier human diets. Yet this potential is being overshadowed by competing uses of ocean resources in an acceler- ating ...
Towards Resilient and Equitable Small-Scale Fisheries. Meeting Summary, 3-5 September 2019, Penang, Malaysia.
Type: Report
Meeting notes from the multi-stakeholder meeting in Penang, which was attended by more than 40 representatives of environmental NGOs (ENGOs), social justice NGOs, research organizations, intergovernmental organizations, ...