Walking the talk: implementing the international voluntary guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries

By S. Jentoft. Maritime Studies, 2014

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On June 9, 2014 the Committee of Fisheries (COFI) of FAO adopted the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF-Guidelines). For millions of small-scale fisheries people around the world, this was no doubt a historic event and a potential turning point. The challenge now is to make sure that they will be implemented. As the SSF-Guidelines address issues that are politically contentious, there are reasons to expect that they will be met both with enthusiastic acclamation and criticism, as already happened in the negotiations of the text. This paper discusses the opportunities and obstacles for their implementation.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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• Securing a Just Space for Small-Scale Fisheries in the Blue Economy (2019, background): “The challenge now is for states and civil society organizations to lead fisheries governance increasingly toward implementation of these principles (Jentoft, 2014).”
• Contributions by Women to Fisheries Economies: Insights from Five Maritime Countries (2017, background): “sustainable small-scale fisheries, developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Committee on Fisheries (COFI) in consultation with civil society (Jentoft 2014), which”