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Book (stand-alone)Understanding 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. -
ProjectSub-Regional Capacity Building in Sustainable Food Systems & Value Chain Development - TCP/SLC/3703 2021
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No results found.According to the Caribbean Community ( a revitalized agricultural sector could play a central role in promoting sustainable rural development and food security in the Caribbean, moving away from an export oriented approach to promote resilience and innovation in the region’s smallholder based agricultural systems In order to tap this potential, individual efforts by single value chain actors would fail to generate the impact required across the region A more holistic and collaborative and integrated approach would on the contrary promote long term sustainable impacts and lead to cost effective, healthy and safe products for all, ensuring the inclusion and integration of smallholder producers, vulnerable consumer groups and rural populations The active participation of the private sector, from farmers and small and medium sized enterprises to multinational food companies, would attract the investments needed to improve productivity, create employment opportunities, reduce food imports and drive industry transformation To achieve these goals, the Governments of Barbados, Belize and Jamaica are committed to developing the agricultural sector by strengthening the performance of agricultural value chains However, the initiatives adopted in this field have often relied on external expertise As a consequence, the three countries requested FAO’s support to improve their institutional capacity to promote inclusive food systems and value chain initiatives strengthen the capacity of ministerial staff to design, implement and evaluate value chain development ( methodologies, stimulate cross departmental collaboration, local ownership, learning, innovation, sustainability and a greater impact on agricultural development The proposed project was therefore aimed at strengthening existing institutional arrangements, the skills of senior management and human resources, collaboration with other departments and the private sector, the training of VCD teams in the skills and methodologies required, and gender empowerment. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochure: OECD-FAO Business Handbook on Deforestation and Due Diligence in Agricultural Supply Chains 2023
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The OECD-FAO Business Handbook on Deforestation and Due Diligence in Agricultural Supply Chains aims to help companies incorporate deforestation and forest degradation considerations in their supply chain due diligence and responsible sourcing efforts and adopt a holistic approach to deforestation risk and forest-positive outcomes. It builds on the risk-based due diligence framework of the OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains, the leading international framework on responsible business conduct and risk-based due diligence in the agri-food sector.
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