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This video gives insights into issues of social development, employment and decent work in small-scale fisheries. Many small-scale fishing communities around the world lack access to basic services such as drinking water and housing, but also to education and health services. Most jobs in this sector are informal, the earnings are often unstable, and the […]
Small-scale fishing communities are often some of the most vulnerable communities to disaster risks and climate change. This short, animated video shows impacts on small-scale fisheries – and what can be done. One of the goals of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) is to call on states and other actors to take urgent and ambitious action to mitigate disaster risks and climate change impacting small-scale fisheries.
This video gives a brief overview of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (the SSF Guidelines), adopted by member countries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2014. The SSF Guidelines are the first ever international instrument dedicated to small-scale fisheries