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PART 2
FAO FISHERIES
AND AQUACULTURE
IN ACTION
FISHERIES AND THE
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS:
MEETING THE
2030 AGENDA
essential for their food and economic securit y
(Lynch et al., 2017) (see also “Global inland
fisheries revisited: their contribution to
achievement of the SDGs” in this volume).
The 2030 Agenda and the SDGs present
sustainable development as a universal challenge
– and a collective responsibilit y – for all countries
and for all actors. Achieving them will depend on
collaboration across sectors and disciplines,
international cooperation and mutual
accountabilit y and will demand comprehensive,
evidence-based and participator y problem-
solving and policy-making. The SDGs are truly
transformative and interlinked, and they call for
integrative and innovative approaches to combine
policies, programmes, partnerships and
investments to achieve common goals (FAO,
2016a). Numerous authors have explored the
links between SDG 14 – Conser ve and
sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine
resources for sustainable development – and the
other SDGs (Blanchard et al. 2017; ICSU, 2017;
Ntona and Morgera, 2017; Singh et al., 2017; Le
Blanc, Freire and Vierros, 2017; Nilsson, Griggs
and Visbeck, 2016). The United Nations
Development Group (UNDG, 2017a, 2017b) and
FAO (2017a) provide general g uidance for
mainstreaming of the 2030 Agenda and related
integrated programming at the countr y level.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
(2030 Agenda for short) (UN, 2015a) offers a vision
of a just and sustainable world, free of fear and
violence, with full realization of human potential
contributing to shared prosperity, achieved through
rights-based, equitable and inclusive development
in which no one is left behind. The 2030 Agenda
not only calls for an end to poverty, hunger and
malnutrition and for universal access to health care
– all with major emphasis on gender issues – but
also demands the elimination of all forms of
exclusion and inequality everywhere. The United
Nations (UN) system affirmed its commitment to
putting equality and non-discrimination at the
heart of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda
(CEB, 2016).
The 2030 Agenda, the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) and related ongoing international
and national processes are highly relevant to the
fisheries and aquaculture sector, including fish
processing and trade, and in particular to the
sector’s governance, policy, investment and
capacit y development needs, to stakeholder
participation and collaboration and to
international partnerships. The commitment to
leave no one behind in fisheries and aquaculture
is a call to focus action and cooperation on efforts
that will help to achieve the core ambitions of the
2030 Agenda for the benefit of all fish workers,
their families and their communities. The vast
majorit y of inland fisheries, for example, are
small-scale operations of poorer groups and are
FAO has elaborated a common vision for
sustainable food and agriculture (FAO, 2014a) as
a framework for addressing sustainable
development in agriculture, forestr y, fisheries
and aquaculture in a more effective and
integrated way. It sets out five basic principles for
the policy dialog ue and governance arrangements
needed to identif y sustainable development
pathways across the SDGs, across sectors and
along related value chains (Figure 33). This unified
perspective – valid across all agricultural sectors
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