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Connecting Fisheries and African Development - The Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (SFLP) in West Africa

Year of publication 2005

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (SFLP) is a partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (DFID) and 25 participating countries in West Africa. The SFLP aims to contribute to reducing poverty in coastal and riparian communities by improving the livelihoods of people dependent on fishery and aquatic resources. The Program me began in November 1999 and is due to finish in October 2006.

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