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Book (series)Mainstreaming fisheries into national development and poverty reduction strategies: current situation and opportunities 2004
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No results found.The formulation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) is one of the main conditions for concessional lending by IMF and World Bank to developing countries. Nevertheless, while evidence indicates that the fisheries sector can contribute (often markedly at the local level) to improved livelihoods and the achievement of food security in many developing countries, the sector is often neglected in PRSPs. This Circular first identifies of 129 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Econ omies in Transition and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) the significance of the fisheries sector as motor of economic growth or likely poverty refuge. Secondly, it examines the extent to which National Development Plans (NDPs), PRSPs, Country Strategy Papers (CSPs) of the European Union and other donor support programmes have presently incorporated the fisheries sector into such documents. Subsequently, a comparison with data indicating the importance of the sector to the national economy (in terms of generating foreign exchange and/or supporting domestic protein consumption levels) enables us to pinpoint those countries with substantive fisheries sectors, but a correspondingly lower than expected degree of sectoral mainstreaming in NDPs, PRSPs and CSPs, and allows us to identify countries which are currently punching above their weight in this respect. Findings are discussed on a regional basis regional averages suggesting that the sector has been most effectively mainstre amed in Asia (case of PRSPs, NDPs and World Bank donor support strategies) closely followed by the African economies and the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). In contrast Latin America, home to two of the top six global fishing nations (Chile and Peru), scores extremely poorly as far as mainstreaming the fisheries sector in PRSPs and NDPs concerns. -
DocumentEconomic planning for fishery development 1971
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No results found.This report emphasizes the wide range of levels of development among the low income countries of the Indian Ocean. In Indonesia and East Africa, the absence of national markets, internal transport, communications, and financial institutions are barriers to the development of modern fisheries as well as to economic development in general. Here the prospects of success in marine fisheries are mainly limited to a modest upgrading of the small-scale coastal fisheries and to "enclaves" of export-orie nted enterprise, largely under foreign management. Countries which have national markets and relatively adequate infrastructure development, have a wider range of options in the fisheries. These countries e.g., India, Pakistan, and Thailand, can seriously consider establishment of modern coastal and offshore fisheries for domestic and overseas markets on the basis of their own leadership. Their chief handicaps, apart from lack of capital, are in business management, quality control, repair and m aintenance services, and international marketing. It is recommended that international assistance programmes give special attention to these latter issues. In both cases, the lowest costs of production and the greatest return to all productive inputs in fisheries may generally be achieved by combining the local advantages and labour supplies of' the countries of the region with techniques and capital and, in many cases, management and markets from the high-income countries. Serious problems rema in in the organization and execution of joint ventures. Investment criteria are recommended both for commercial ventures and international assistance. Attention is given to the dangers of over-investment in specific fisheries. -
Book (stand-alone)Assessment of the integration of fisheries and aquaculture in policy development
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No results found.This document was prepared within the framework of the FAO’s Strategic Objective 1 (SO1): Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. This document served as a background paper to present the status of policy mainstreaming and policy research for the improvement of policy development in aquaculture in support of food security, nutrition and poverty eradication. The document was presented in various African fora and received the validation of the stakeholders for its publication as part of policy research. Specifically, the paper was presented and included the inputs from the Consultative Meeting on Aquaculture Policy Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 3 to 4 December 2018, 37th SADC Fisheries and Aquaculture technical meeting in Windhoek and the Consultative meeting on “improving policy development in aquaculture in support of food security, nutrition and poverty eradication” held in Kigali, Rwanda, from 10 to 14 June 2019. This research report includes recommendations by the stakholders to guide the mainstreaming of fisheries and aquaculture within wider policy frameworks, for the formulation and implementation of technical programmes for enhanced food security and nutrition at country and regional level in Africa.
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