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Book (stand-alone)General interest bookGoverning for transformation towards sustainable small-scale fisheries 2025
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No results found.This volume provides a human-centered perspective, building on the expanding horizon from biological and economic management to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary aquatic resources governance. It was prepared in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines). It also provides an update of Berkes’ book, Coasts for People. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Coastal and Marine Resource Management (Routledge, 2015). The original chapters of the book served as the first draft of seven of the chapters, all of them rewritten with multiple authors (total of 20 co-authors) and with an explicit focus on small-scale fisheries through the lens of the SSF Guidelines.Over the years, aquatic resources governance has evolved. For example, the term “resource”, which carried a sense of free goods and commodification of nature, shifted in meaning to include biodiversity and ecosystem services. The term “management” changed to include participation, complexity and uncertainty. The volume focuses on several subject areas as the key elements of an interdisciplinary science of aquatic governance. These include holism and ecosystems view (Chapter 2); coupled humans and environment systems (Chapter 3); fishers’ knowledge (Chapter 4); commons dilemmas (Chapter 5); co-management (Chapter 6); livelihoods and sustainability (Chapter 7); fishery systems resilience (Chapter 8); and ecosystem and human rights-based management (Chapter 9). These interdisciplinary, social science-oriented approaches have shaped recent thinking about small-scale fisheries, helping empower fishers and fishworkers towards a more inclusive, equitable, sustainable and resilient subsector. They also help meet Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG1 (No Poverty) and SDG2 (Zero Hunger), consistent with the emphasis of SSF Guidelines on poverty eradication and food security. The intended audience for the volume is broad-based and includes fisheries and aquatic management practitioners and policymakers, scientists and educators. It is an invitation to a new generation of resource managers to be aware of how approaches and concepts have evolved over time to embrace the challenge of interdisciplinarity and complexity to advance the transformation towards sustainable small-scale fisheries. -
Book (stand-alone)GuidelineTowards the implementation of the SSF Guidelines. Proceedings of the Workshop on the Development of a Global Assistance Programme in Support of the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, 8-11 December 2014, Rome, Italy 2015
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No results found.Following the endorsement of the SSF Guidelines by the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) in June 2014, FAO is now engaging in implementation planning through a participatory process and in accordance with COFI recommendations. COFI proposed the establishment of an SSF Guidelines Global Assistance Programme (GAP) and an outline of this GAP was presented to COFI The workshop was an important step in terms of guidance for consolidating the overall implementation approach for the SSF Guidelines. It is evident that there is an overall willingness to work towards a coherent, coordinated implementation by all stakeholders, based on the guiding principles of the SSF Guidelines themselves. It was confirmed that FAO has an important role to play in terms of supporting and facilitating the implementation, but also in providing technical support and project implementation, based on demand. FAO is looking forward to continuing working on the development of the GAP framework, based on commitment and professionalism and in close collaboration with partners and stakeholders. -
BookletTechnical reportWomen's contribution to community livelihoods and nutritional security in the small-scale fisheries sector in Madagascar 2025
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This document aims to shed light on the diverse contributions of women to small-scale fisheries, emphasizing their direct influence on the economic landscape, dietary diversity, nutritional intake, and household food security in Madagascar. It supports the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (hereafter referred to as the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines), to which Madagascar is a signatory , and which were adopted by the FAO Committee on Fisheries in 2014 (FAO, 2015). The analytical framework is based on the methodology outlined in the study Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The Contribution of Small-Scale Fisheries to Sustainable Development, developed collaboratively by FAO, Duke University, and the WorldFish Center. This initiative, which encompassed around 50 country case studies –including Madagascar – aims to generate and share new information on small-scale fisheries to guide policy decisions and practices (FAO et al., 2023 ; Basurto et al., 2025).By identifying constraints that limit women’s participation in small-scale fishery value chains, this document aims to provide recommendations and strategies to the Government to enhance women’s empowerment and resilience to economic challenges, shocks, and climate change impacts.
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BookletCorporate general interestFAOSTYLE: English 2024The objective of having a house style is to ensure clarity and consistency across all FAO publications. Now available in HTML, this updated edition of FAOSTYLE: English covers matters such as punctuation, units, spelling and references. All FAO staff, consultants and contractors involved in writing, reviewing, editing, translating or proofreading FAO texts and information products in English should use FAOSTYLE, together with the practical guidance on processes and layout questions provided in Publishing at FAO – strategy and guidance.
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