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How can your fishery contribute to food and nutrition security and the health of your community? Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture provide nutritious food for communities around the world. Ensuring a steady supply of food at the local and global level is one key goal for small-scale fisheries governance. Start here to learn about value chains for nutrition, and explore other aspects of food security and community health in the sub-categories below.

Resources

A report by The High Level Panel of Experts on 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

Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH) Report

The IHH study was carried out in support of the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines), themselves developed in recognition of the plight of small-scale fishers, fishworkers and associated communities and released as a contribution to the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022. The purpose of this report is to contribute to a more holistic understanding of what small-scale fisheries are, their importance, and why they are essential to efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Science, knowledge & information gathering
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Value chains & post harvest
Human rights & gender equality
Disaster risks & climate change
Social development & employment
Food security & nutrition

The relationship between the governance of small-scale fisheries and the realization of the right to adequate food in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals

This conceptual-level information note seeks to highlight the human rights aspects of the goals and targets relating to food security and small-scale fisheries (SSF), particularly from the perspective of the right to adequate food, and to demonstrate how this interrelationship plays out in the monitoring mechanisms established by relevant instruments.
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Fisheries management
Tenure rights
Food security & nutrition
Aquaculture

Small-scale fisheries and sustainable development

Key findings from the Illuminating Hidden Harvests report - This brief presents the main results from the Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH) report, providing new, clearer insights to support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Science, knowledge & information gathering
Science and assessments
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Co-management
Human rights & gender equality
Human rights-based approach
Gender in fisheries
Social development & employment
Food security & nutrition

Small-Scale Fisheries and the Human Right to Adequate Food

This handbook has been developed to support the joint implementation of the SSF Guidelines and the Right to Food Guidelines through an integrated approach and to increase policy coherence and uptake. The document provides an overview of the contents of these voluntary guidelines and identifies potential synergies. It also explains the human rights-based approach and discusses some crucial areas, with special attention to the specific roles and responsibilities of key actors.
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Human rights & gender equality
Human rights-based approach
Food security & nutrition

Securing sustainable small-scale fisheries: sharing good practices from around the world

This document includes eight studies showcasing good practices in support of sustainable small-scale fisheries. FAO commissioned these studies aiming to share experiences and promote the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines).
Science, knowledge & information gathering
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Co-management
Tenure rights
Value chains & post harvest
Market access
Human rights & gender equality
Human rights-based approach
Indigenous rights
Disaster risks & climate change
Social development & employment
Fisher and fishworker organizations
Social responsibility in seafood
Food security & nutrition
Other resources & approaches
Capacity development
Participatory processes and stakeholder engagement

International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 Global Action Plan

The IYAFA 2022 Global Action Plan (IYAFA GAP) aims at building global momentum to empower small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture and securing a sustainable future for these important sectors. Outlined here are a series of indicative and interconnected actions that are mutually reinforcing in the pillars of work.
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Fisheries management
Food security & nutrition
Aquaculture
Other resources & approaches
Capacity development
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