Climate change threatens the global food supply and poses challenges to maintaining food security and livelihoods. Learn more about the drivers of climate change and how small-scale fishing communities can build resiliency, adapt, and mitigate negative impacts.

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Guía Metodológica para Construir Resiliencia ante el Cambio Climático en Comunidades Pesqueras

Ethos Laboratorio de Políticas Públicas y EDF México, con financiamiento de la Fundación Tinker, colaboran en el proyecto “Estrategias de resiliencia de las comunidades pesqueras mexicanas ante el cambio climático” (2021-2023), con el objetivo de fortalecer la resiliencia de las comunidades pesqueras ribereñas frente a los impactos del cambio climático. Para ello, han diseñado una guía metodológica, que consiste en una serie de pasos cuya implementación resulta en un Plan Comunitario de Resiliencia.
Disaster risks & climate change
Climate change
Disaster preparedness and response
Other resources & approaches
Capacity development
Participatory processes and stakeholder engagement

"Pagbalud" (When the Waves Swell)

In this video, Exec. Dir. of the Guiuan Development Foundation was featured as an exemplary scientist and community development worker who transcends science to coastal communities to attain sustainability of resources. This film topped the S&T Professional Category in the 2nd Philippine Indie-Siyensya Filmmaking Competition in 2017
Science, knowledge & information gathering
Science and assessments
Traditional and local ecological knowledge
Monitoring and reporting
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Co-management
Fisheries management
Disaster risks & climate change
Climate change
Disaster preparedness and response

Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture for food security and nutrition

This report addresses a frequently overlooked but extremely important part of world food and nutrition security: the role and importance of fish in seeking food and nutrition security for all. Fisheries and aquaculture have often been arbitrarily separated from other parts of the food and agricultural systems in food security studies, debates and policy-making.
Disaster risks & climate change
Climate change
Food security & nutrition
Aquaculture

FishCounts: increasing the visibility of small-scale fisheries in Cambodia's national planning

This report explores the current state of Cambodia’s fisheries and the data that would be needed to develop such a set of accounts. It considers the country’s existing statistical information and monitoring efforts, and where the gaps, inconsistencies and overlaps lie. It proposes a phased approach to build on what already exists to create greater visibility for the contribution of small-scale fisheries to the national economy and their role in developing sustainable fishing and aquaculture in the face of growing demands and climate change.
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Fisheries management
Climate change
Social development & employment
Worker rights and decent work
Social responsibility in seafood
Other resources & approaches
Capacity development

Kokoly

Against a backdrop of extreme poverty, personal loss and a marine environment changing beyond her control, Kokoly lives on a knife edge. Filmed over four months, Kokoly follows a traditional Vezo fisherwoman Madame Kokoly - as she reflects on her live experiences and carries out her daily routine in and around the coastal waters of southwest Madagascar.
Science, knowledge & information gathering
Traditional and local ecological knowledge
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Fisheries management
Disaster risks & climate change
Climate change
Food security & nutrition

Dead fish is not manna

This publication brings to the frontline, issues that beg for attention in the fisheries sector. Chapter one of this publication, titled COVID-19 and Fisheries, highlights how the pandemic has affected the fisheries subsector. Chapter two, titled Dead Fish is not Manna, captures the peculiarities and challenges of fisheries in Nigeria noting the contaminated state of some of the fishes sold in the country's markets.
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Fisheries management
Illegal fishing and enforcement
Value chains & post harvest
Value add and processing
Seafood handling and storage
Disaster risks & climate change
Climate change
COVID-19
Human-induced threats
Food security & nutrition
Aquaculture

Adaptive management of fisheries in response to climate change

This report aims to accelerate climate change adaptation implementation in fisheries management throughout the world. It showcases how flexibility can be introduced in the fisheries management cycle in order to foster adaptation, strengthen the resilience of fisheries, reduce their vulnerability to climate change, and enable managers to respond in a timely manner to the projected changes in the dynamics of marine resources and ecosystems.
Science, knowledge & information gathering
Science and assessments
Monitoring and reporting
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Fisheries management
Tenure rights
Disaster risks & climate change
Climate change
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