Leaving no one behind

Solutions

CFS policy recommendations ‘Sustainable fisheries for food security and aquaculture for food security and nutrition’

Whole chain

• Fair Trade US/fish (LINK REQUIRED)
• The Abalobi marketplace which connects fishers with consumers and restaurants etc. (LINK REQUIRED)

Guidelines

• Voluntary Guidelines on the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (No. 10 and 11)(FAO)
• Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (FAO)

Solutions

Gender specific groups and network (SDG 5.5, 5.b, 5.c, 10.2, 10.3)

• Global women fisheries network (LINK REQUIRED)
• AKTEA The network of women in fisheries and aquaculture
• AWFishNet African Women Fish Processors and Traders Network
• BIM Women in seafood Ireland’s Seafood Development Agency (Irland) (LINK REQUIRED)
• #IrelandsWomenInSeafood (Irland)
• Inception workshop for “Food from the Oceans” in Ghana

Attention on gender equality

• Gender included from the ‘get go’ in global small-scale fisheries study (WorldFish) (LINK REQUIRED)

Empower women in trade sector

• Towards gender-equitable small-scale fisheries governance and development – A handbook (FAO)
• Empowering women in small-scale fisheries for sustainable food systems (FAO)

Guidelines

• Voluntary Guidelines on the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (FAO)
• Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (FAO)
• Towards gender-equitable small-scale fisheries governance and development -A handbook (FAO)

Solutions

Initiatives

• SeaBOS Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship
• Information on COVID-19 and small-scale fisheries
• Social protection for small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean region
• Improving livelihoods and nutrition for women and children (India)

Guidelines

• Voluntary Guidelines on the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (FAO)
• Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (FAO)

Solutions

Implementation of guidelines (SDG 9.3, 14.7 and 14.b, and CFS 4A.7 and 4D)

• Tanzania’s implementation of SSF guidelines as pilot (FAO) (LINK REQUIRED)
• Implementation of the SSF Guidelines in Eastern Africa (FAO) (LINK REQUIRED)

Attention on SFF

• International year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 (UN)

Guidelines

• Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (FAO)

Solutions

SDG 9.3, 14.4, 14.6, 14.7, 14.c

Approaches and methods developed under Illuminating hidden harvest project can be replicated/upscaled to better connect fisheries and food security and nutrition data, to inform policy and action (LINK REQUIRED)

• capacity development (LINK REQUIRED)
• new partnerships between fisheries and food security (LINK REQUIRED)
• nutrition expertise (LINK REQUIRED)

Solutions

Holistic monitoring of resources including all key elements (sufficient’, ‘safe’, ‘nutritious’, ‘dietary needs’, ‘food preferences’) (LINK REQUIRED)

Guidelines

• Voluntary Guidelines on the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (No. 10-11) (FAO)
• Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (FAO)

Solutions

Approaches and methods developed under Illuminating hidden harvest project (LINK REQUIRED)

Collaboration

• African Women Fish Processors and Traders Network

Guidelines

• Voluntary Guidelines on the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (No. 11) (FAO)
• Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (FAO)