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No Thumbnail AvailablePolicy briefPolicy brief: Unlocking the value of Namibia’s small-scale fisheries sector through policy action 2024
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No results found.Namibia's small-scale fisheries sector, a cornerstone of the country's economy and social fabric, faces challenges related to unsustainable practices, inadequate infrastructure, and limited market access. To address these challenges and harness the sector's immense potential, this policy brief proposes a set of recommendations: 1. Establish a regulatory framework for sustainable resource management and equitable distribution of benefits through a sustainable small-scale fisheries law. 2. Foster a sense of ownership and accountability by creating a Small-Scale Fisheries Advisory Council, ensuring meaningful participation of small-scale fishers in decision-making processes. 3. Empower women and enhance their participation in the sector by promoting gender-transformative approaches in small-scale fisheries. 4. Recognize and protect the rights of small-scale fishers through rights-based management approaches for small-scale fisheries, ensuring equitable access to resources, markets, and decision-making processes. 5. Enhance post-harvest handling, processing, and storage facilities, strengthen market linkages, and facilitate access to finance for small-scale fishers by improving the small-scale fisheries value chain. By implementing these recommendations, Namibia can unlock the immense value of its small-scale fisheries sector, promoting sustainable development, food security, and poverty reduction, while ensuring the long-term viability of this vital industry. -
ProjectUpdating the Sustainable Agricultural Development Strategy 2030 and Preparing a Medium-Term Plan of Action - TCP/EGY/3701 2021
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No results found.There is broad consensus in Egypt that, despite its achievements, the Sustainable Agricultural Development Strategy ( 2030 needs to be reviewed in a number of areas As an agricultural and rural development strategy aiming to address existing and future challenges, there is a need for the SADS to go beyond a sectoral scope, as interlinkages between agriculture, water, land use, climate change, agro industry, input supply, food security and nutrition are key to determining the outcomes of the overall development process The environment, in particular water, land and climate change, is a sector closely considered within the SADS 2030 The recently developed National Water Resource Plan for Egypt provides an opportunity to endow the SADS 2030 with a well rounded vision and to assesses agricultural development needs with water management provisions In addition, it was agreed that linking agricultural and value chain development might provide a framework for developing more resilient agriculture and rural non farm sectors able to generate better jobs, reduce rural poverty and vulnerability and enhance food security At the outset of the project, specific focus was needed upon the favouring the participation of smallholders in modern value chains, ensuring a smooth exit out of the agricultural sector and employment opportunities in other sectors primarily agrifood processing and distribution for those unable to continue working in agriculture. -
Book (series)Enabling regulatory frameworks for contract farming 2018
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FAO’s previous contribution to the development of contract farming saw the publication in 2015 of the UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Contract Farming, which focused on the bilateral relationship between an agricultural producer and a contractor. This Legislative Study develops that research and focuses on the regulatory frameworks for contract farming, aiming to highlight different possible approaches for different contexts. Responsible contract farming can be a powerful tool for small scale farmers in developing countries to move towards larger scalecommercial production. It can create economic wealth, contribute to supply chain efficiency through the production of higher quantities of better quality products, and contribute to achieving domestic food security objectives. Maximizing these benefits while minimizing the inherent risks of contract farming is reliant upon the forging of an enabling environment, a key part of which is the domestic regulatory framework. This Legislative Study provides guidance to domestic regulators and other interested readers on how to appraise and potentially reform domestic regulatory frameworks to achieve responsible contract farming. Recognising that different countries and contextual realties may benefit from different regulatory solutions, this Study provides several examples, supported by representative case studies, on how contract farming can be regulated, without promoting a single solution as the most appropriate. Please visit FAO’s Contract Farming Resource Centre, http://www.fao.org/in-action/contract-farming/en/, which is a regularly updated website hosting a variety of material on contract farming both from FAO and from other recognized authors.
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