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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (series)Report of the Third Session of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research. Rome, 5-8 December 2000 2000
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No results found.The Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research (ACFR) held its third session in Rome from 5 to 8 December 2000. The Committee examined its work since the second session, undertook an appraisal of FAO's fisheries research-related programmes and activities in small-scale fisheries, inland fisheries and aquaculture, reviewed some emerging issues in capture fisheries and aquaculture and elaborated the Committee's work for the intersessional period (2000-2002). The Committee welcomed the proposal and d raft International Plan of Action on Status and Trends (IPOA-STATUS&TRENDS) reporting on fisheries and commended the Working Party on Status and Trends for its work which was a good response to ACFR's request at its first session in 1997. The Committee recognized that if adopted, the IPOA-STATUS&TRENDS would be central to the implementation of several parts of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and particularly for Fisheries Management (Article 7). The Committee suggested refinements to the proposal and draft IPOA and strongly endorsed that the draft IPOA-STATUS&TRENDS should be submitted to the twenty-fourth session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) for consideration. The Committee suggested that it was necessary to undertake research aiming to obtain a more detailed nuanced understanding of the various types and states of poverty in fishing communities and that empirical research on the subject could be divided into several areas including: the importance of the i nstitutional/governance setting for the origin and persistence of poverty, processes/mechanisms that have permitted communities to escape poverty and, equally important, of mechanisms that have caused fishing communities to become poor, etc. The Committee recommended that once a thorough understanding of the mechanisms of poverty had been obtained, it may be useful to look into the possibility of developing an instrument for -
Book (stand-alone)The Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and Indigenous Peoples
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No results found.This guide is designed for indigenous fishing communities and for people in the development field working with indigenous fishing communities. Its objective is to provide guidance on impacts and benefits of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (hereinafter the ‘Code’) from an indigenous peoples’ perspective. This guide: a) provides an overview on the content of the Code relevant to indigenous peoples; b) shows how the Code can be used to benefit indigenous peoples, i n particular those from indigenous fishing communities; and c) identifies some gaps and includes recommendations for all stakeholders on the progressive interpretation of the Code in the light of human rights instruments on indigenous peoples’ rights. -
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