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Book (stand-alone)Technical studyUnderstanding women’s roles and trade potential along regional value chains: An in-depth analysis of the fisheries and aquaculture value chain in Senegal
Making the African Continental Free Trade Area work for women
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No results found.This report presents a comprehensive analysis of the fisheries and aquaculture value chain in Senegal, with a specific focus on women’s roles, challenges, and trade potential in the context of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Developed under the FAO–ITC joint programme Empowering Women and Boosting Livelihoods through Agricultural Trade: Leveraging the AfCFTA (EWAT), the study explores how women in Senegal’s fisheries sector, particularly in the artisanal and processing segments, can benefit from regional trade opportunities. Using a mixed-methods approach, the report combines quantitative trade data with qualitative insights gathered through field research and stakeholder consultations in key coastal regions. It documents women’s vital contributions across the value chain, especially in processing and local trade, while identifying persistent structural barriers including limited access to finance, infrastructure, formal markets, and decision-making spaces.Senegal maintains a trade surplus in all segments of its fisheries and aquaculture sector and holds a revealed comparative advantage in more than 50 export categories. If supported by targeted policy measures, these trade gains could translate into meaningful benefits for women along the value chain, particularly in processing and small-scale trade. The report underscores that realizing this potential will depend on addressing trade frictions, strengthening women’s organizations, and ensuring that trade expansion efforts are explicitly inclusive.The report concludes with actionable recommendations to enhance women’s economic empowerment, including gender-responsive infrastructure, targeted financing, institutional support, and improved market access, positioning the AfCFTA as a powerful instrument to advance inclusive and sustainable trade-led growth in Senegal’s fisheries sector. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical studyBotswana agrifood value chain project: Beef value chain study 2013
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No results found.Funded through an FAO Technical Cooperation Programme facility, the study represents the first work under a new Botswana Agrifood Value Chain Project which is being driven by the Botswana Agricultural Hub. The beef value chain study will stand as a template for development support to other agrifood value chains. The study is based on extensive consultation with stakeholders throughout the value chain: input suppliers, producers, processors, retailers, government officials and other support providers. This timely study has been developed as part of FAO’s technical assistance and demonstrates a continued commitment to the Ministry’s approach to supporting the agricultural sector (...) -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookSelecting value chains for sustainable food value chain development
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2021Also available in:
No results found.Value chain development can make significant contributions to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) because it is a powerful approach to address root causes and binding constraints that impede the sustainable development of food value chains. The first step in value chain development is selecting those value chains that, when upgraded, can have the biggest SDG impact. This publication provides practical guidelines on how to select value chains for which upgrading is feasible and impactful in terms of the potential for generating positive economic, social and environmental outcomes. The handbook describes a step-by-step process that helps to assess, compare and select value chains in a participatory and evidence-based manner. It presents a toolbox that can be customized to projects with different budgets, scopes and objectives. This publication forms part of a set of FAO handbooks on Sustainable Food Value Chain (SFVC) development, which together provide hands-on guidance for development practitioners, including international organizations, NGOs, regional bodies and national governments seeking to achieve sustainability objectives through agrifood value chain development projects.
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Book (stand-alone)Manual / guideThe Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Volume 2: Bivalves, gastropods, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, and chimaeras 2016
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No results found.This multivolume field guide covers the species of interest to fisheries of the major marine resource groups exploited in the Eastern Central Atlantic. The area of coverage includes FAO fishing area 34 and part of 47. The marine resource groups included are bivalves, gastropods, chitons, cephalopods, stomatopods, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, chimaeras, bony fishes and sea turtles. The introductory chapter outlines the environmental, ecological, and biogeographical factors influencing the marine biota, and the basic components of the fisheries in the Eastern Central Atlantic. Within the field guide, the sections on the re source groups are arranged phylogenetically according to higher taxonomic levels such as class, order, and family. Each resource group is introduced by general re marks on the group, an illustrated section on technical terms and measurements, and a key or guide to orders or families. Each family generally has an account summarizing family diagnostic characters, bi o logical and fisheries in formation, notes on similar families occur ring in the area, a key to species, a check list of species, and a short list of relevant literature. Families that are less important to fisheries include an abbreviated family ac count and no de tailed species in formation. Species in the important families are treated in detail (arranged alphabetically by genus and species) and include the species name, frequent synonyms and names of similar speci es, an illustration, FAO common name(s), diagnostic characters, biology and fisheries in formation, notes on geo graphical distribution, and a distribution map. For less important species, abbreviated accounts are used. Generally, this includes the species name, FAO common name(s), an illustration, a distribution map, and notes on biology, fisheries, and distribution. Each volume concludes with its own index of scientific and common names. -
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Book (stand-alone)Manual / guideThe Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Volume 3: Bony fishes part 1 (Elopiformes to Scorpaeniformes) 2016
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No results found.This multivolume field guide covers the species of interest to fisheries of the major marine resource groups exploited in the Eastern Central Atlantic. The area of coverage includes FAO fishing area 34 and part of 47. The marine resource groups included are bivalves, gastropods, chitons, cephalopods, stomatopods, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, chimaeras, bony fishes and sea turtles. The introductory chapter outlines the environmental, ecological, and biogeographical factors influencing the marine biota, and the basic components of the fisheries in the Eastern Central Atlantic. Within the field guide, the sections on the re source groups are arranged phylogenetically according to higher taxonomic levels such as class, order, and family. Each resource group is introduced by general re marks on the group, an illustrated section on technical terms and measurements, and a key or guide to orders or families. Each family generally has an account summarizing family diagnostic characters, bi o logical and fisheries in formation, notes on similar families occur ring in the area, a key to species, a check list of species, and a short list of relevant literature. Families that are less important to fisheries include an abbreviated family account and no de tailed species in formation. Species in the important families are treated in detail (arranged alphabetically by genus and species) and include the species name, frequent synonyms and names of similar specie s, an illustration, FAO common name(s), diagnostic characters, biology and fisheries in formation, notes on geo graphical distribution, and a distribution map. For less important species, abbreviated accounts are used. Generally, this includes the species name, FAO common name(s), an illustration, a distribution map, and notes on biology, fisheries, and distribution. Each volume concludes with its own index of scientific and common names.