Small-scale fisheries development in Africa: Lessons learned and best practices for enhancing food security and livelihoods

Marine Policy ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 104925
Author(s):  
Antaya March ◽  
Pierre Failler
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries

Small-scale Fisheries, Livelihoods, and Food Security of Riverine People

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Gustavo Hallwass ◽  
Luís Henrique Tomazoni da Silva ◽  
Paula Nagl ◽  
Mariana Clauzet ◽  
Alpina Begossi
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries

Small is beautiful – or is it? The challenges of integrating human rights principles into sector policies favourable to artisanal fisheries and mining

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia E. Nauen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries ◽  
Artisanal Miners

<p class="western"><span>Raising awareness about opportunities for transdisciplinary work and ethical grounding to meet the global challenges to the professions is paramount. Issues of justice and living within the planetary boundaries become also more prominent in the life, social sciences and humanities questioning disciplinary silos. Institutionalising alternatives that create and sustain broader knowledge ecologies for sustainable living is yet to be systematically enabled through new learning and educational pathways. We argue, that there are considerable mutual learning opportunities between artisanal, small-scale mining and small-scale fisheries. </span></p> <p class="western"><span>The global employment in the artisanal gold mining sector is estimated at some 10 to 15 million people, of whom 4.5 million are women and 0.6 million children. Some 40 million people are estimated along value chains in the artisanal fishing of whom 50% are estimated to be women. In both sectors informality is high, production very incompletely recorded and relations with governments and local administrations tend to be difficult as perceptions about the negative sides of the artisanal operations are pervasive in a policy context modelled on industrial exploitation and value chains. Where attempts have been made to quantify production and role in employment, food security or even in contribution to GDP and international trade, the numbers almost always justify policy change in favour of the small-scale sectors. In the face of disruptive technologies liable to make many industrial jobs redundant, opportunities for a new brand of artisanal operators in higher value added segments would be possible with suitable investment in people and institutions. This could go well beyond the poverty discourse into which artisanal miners and fishers are often confined, a notion vigorously rejected by many fishers e.g. in West Africa. </span></p> <p class="western"><span>The 2018 “Mosi-oa-Tunya Declaration on Artisanal and Small-scale Mining, Quarrying and Development” and the “Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication” with its grounding in human rights and adopted in 2014 by the FAO Committee of Fisheries are starting points for demarginalising artisanal operators. The small-scale fisheries academy (SSF academy) in Senegal offer an example of how this could be enabled. Some 600,000 people are estimated to work along artisanal value chains in the country. </span></p> <p class="western"><span>The SSF academy explores the possibilities to use bottom-up training of trainer approaches to empower individuals (men and women) and communities to improve their livelihoods. Inclusive, participatory methods of active learning based on “Gender Actions Learninig System” (GALS) are being tested to enable experiencing positive local change in relation to global policy goals like the SSF Guidelines in the context of Agenda 2030. The SSF academy offers a safe space where diverse actors can meet, confront their different knowledges and experiences and develop social and technological innovations. Wider sharing builds capabilities and practice of advocacy and collective action thus also paving the way for forms of more participatory governance. Demonstrating feasibility may entice policy reform that would benefit from long-term societal views to counter wide-spread short-termism, for fishers and miners. </span></p>

scholarly journals Trust and Rural Enterprise in the Trade Activities of Small-Scale Fisheries: Lessons Learned From Pangandaran, Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Hafidz Wibisono ◽  
Andi Abdul Manaf
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Client Relationships ◽  
Technical Factors ◽  
Trading Mechanisms

This paper explores the approach used by fisheries-related stakeholders to break the complex relationship between fishermen and middlemen in the fishing village of Pangandaran, West Java, Indonesia. This location was selected because the fisheries trade there has been institutionalized by the presence of rural enterprise. This is unusual, especially in traditional small-scale fisheries where trade is governed by middlemen. The information was obtained by interviewing key stakeholders from various parties and combining this with relevant secondary data. The main argument is that formalizing the fisheries market is not as simple as implementing technical regulations. There are non-technical factors that affect the entire process. The findings indicate that trust is the important variable that catalyzes the process and binds stakeholders in certain trading mechanisms. Furthermore, this situation is very helpful to divert the fishermen from patron-client relationships that are often unfavorable in the long term.

scholarly journals Improving our knowledge on small-scale fisheries: data needs and methodologies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Partnership Development ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition

In 2012, the World Bank, FAO and WorldFish Center published a review of the economic importance of fisheries entitled Hidden Harvest: The Global Contribution of Capture Fisheries. While providing essential information and estimates that are still valid, the analyses would benefit from being refined and updated, and also by including additional dimensions of the contribution of small-scale fisheries to food security and nutrition, poverty reduction, and the three dimensions of sustainable development more broadly. The intention would be to draw the attention of policy- and decision-makers to the sector’s importance and to promote the required engagement and support to realize the potential of sustainable small-scale fisheries. Such an analysis would also be an important contribution towards monitoring the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines), and of the progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).As a first step towards a new Hidden Harvest study, the “Workshop on improving our knowledge on small-scale fisheries: data needs and methodologies” was held at FAO in Rome, Italy on 27–29 June 2017. This expert workshop discussed:• the scope and main contents of the new study, including type of data (indicators) to be collected and subsector coverage; and• the methodologies for data collection and analyses, including key partners and information sources.About 40 external experts, as well as FAO staff from the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department and other relevant FAO departments, participated in the workshop. The workshop agreed on the need for a comprehensive new study to illuminate the hidden contributions of small-scale fisheries to the three dimensions of sustainable development, as well as identifying the key threats to these contributions. The study would be a collaborative effort, and the next steps envisaged include the development of a study design based on the workshop outcomes, to be completed by the end of 2017; continuation of ongoing communications and partnership development; and launch of the research in early 2018, with a target for completion in the first half of 2019.

Adaptations to maintain the contributions of small-scale fisheries to food security in the Pacific Islands

Marine Policy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 303-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann D. Bell ◽  
Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor ◽  
Quentin Hanich ◽  
Johanna E. Johnson ◽  
Patrick Lehodey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries ◽  
The Pacific

Food security versus environment conservation: A case study of Solomon Islands' small-scale fisheries

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 38-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre-Yves Hardy ◽  
Christophe Béné ◽  
Luc Doyen ◽  
Anne-Maree Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries

Fish and Food Security in Small-Scale Fisheries

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip A. Loring ◽  
David V. Fazzino ◽  
Melinda Agapito ◽  
Ratana Chuenpagdee ◽  
Glenna Gannon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries

scholarly journals Mainstreaming Nutrition into Agricultural Extension: Two Projects that Integrated Agricultural Intervention

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manika Saha
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Poultry Production ◽  
Integrated Agriculture ◽  
Nutrition Sensitive ◽  
Agriculture Extension ◽  
The Impact

This objective of this study, conducted from February to May 2016, was to document lessons learned from two food security projects implemented in Bangladesh since 2013. The two projects are the “Integrated Agriculture and Health Based Interventions” (IAHBI3) project and the “Improving Food Security of Women and Children by Enhancing Backyard and Small Scale Poultry Production in Southern Delta Region” (referred to in this text as simply the “poultry project”). Both projects are particular examples where governmental, i.e., public instead of private or nongovernmental organization (NGO) run, agriculture extension programs are purposefully integrating nutrition into their services. The study addressed questions such as how these two projects integrate nutrition into AES, what approach was used (e.g., Farmer Field School (FFS)), what were the main nutrition-sensitive interventions, what capacity building/development and training was carried out, and what the perceptions about the impact of the project are among staff and beneficiaries. Exploring these questions helped identify lessons learned from the projects, what constraints had to be overcome and what gaps may still exist, as well as recommendations for future implementation and scaling up of similar interventions. Note that this study is neither an assessment nor an evaluation of either project. Formal end line surveys have been completed and the findings are expected to be published by August 2016 (FAO Bangladesh, 2016a and 2016b).This report is intended for a broad audience interested in practical tips on how to integrate nutrition into agricultural extension. It provides access to information from projects internal reports that are otherwise not available to the public at large. The lessons learned and recommendations made are indicative and really intended to stimulate discussion among organizations tasked with pursuing similar aims as the projects presented here. The lessons learned and recommendations do not necessarily reflect the views of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) or of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Bangladesh. Many statements reflect the comments made by key informants and by farmers themselves. The reader may or may not agree with them but the points made merit further discussion. The objectives of this assignment were to: 1. Document the nutrition-sensitive interventions those were implemented; 2. Explain how nutrition was integrated into the Agriculture Extension Services (AES); 3. Assess perceptions, challenges, identify opportunities for strengthening these services and obtain recommendations from relevant selected government officials, beneficiaries, and former project’s implementers on how to integrate nutrition into (AES); 4. Develop lessons learned to inform future programme and policy development.

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