Making markets work for small scale harvesting communities
Towards Fishers Participation in the development of a new policy for the South African Small Scale Fishery
With a process of developing a new fishing policy for the small-scale sector ahead of us, we feel that it is the right time to discuss how and at what level fishers are going to participate in the process. Fisheries management science and empirical evidence from participatory management programmes in South Africa and abroad clearly indicate that shared responsibility and participation is a precondition for successful small-scale fisheries management.
- Fisheries
- Cross sectoral co-ordination and integration
- Developing human capacity
- Governance and management approaches
- Information and communication
- Integrated assessment
- Knowledge of indigenous land and food systems
- Legislation and policy
- Making markets work for small scale harvesting communities
- Participation
- Sustenance and livelihoods
Declaration of Indigenous Peoples for Food Sovereignty
Representatives of Indigenous Peoples from the regions of Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, North America, Africa and Northern Europe, gathered at the Global Forum for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty in Rome from the 13th to the 17th of November 2009.
Reaffirming our right to Food sovereignty, which is intrinsically linked to our historical, cultural and spiritual relations with our Mother Earth, our lands and territories,
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- Agriculture
- Environment
- Fisheries
- Forestry and Rangeland
- Land
- Rural and Community Development
- Water
- Cross sectoral co-ordination and integration
- Governance and management approaches
- Information and communication
- Knowledge of indigenous land and food systems
- Legislation and policy
- Making markets work for small scale harvesting communities
- Participation
- Sustenance and livelihoods
