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PART 3 HIGHLIGHTS OF ONGOING STUDIES
BOX 19
HIDDEN HARVEST 2: EXPANDING MEASURES OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC
CONTRIBUTIONS OF SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES
The SSF Guidelines provide a policy framework for how
to move small-scale fisheries into sustainability through a
holistic and integrated approach. However, this
transformation needs substantial support, including better
data and information on the contributions of small-scale
fisheries to the three dimensions of sustainable
development: social, economic and environmental. For
this reason, FAO has proposed a new study to build on
the World Bank (2012) Hidden harvest report, to deepen
empirically verifiable information on small-scale fisheries
and their socio-economic contributions, as well as to
identify the key threats to these contributions and/or
opportunities to enhance them. To elaborate plans for the
study, FAO organized the Workshop on Improving our
Knowledge on Small-Scale Fisheries: Data Needs and
Methodologies from 27 to 29 June 2017 in Rome
(Basurto et al., 2017), supported by World Fish and Duke
University, which are partnering with FAO in this effort.
The study will be conducted throughout 2018 and
2019 and is expected to be the most extensive compilation to date of information available on the
diverse contributions of small-scale fisheries to
communities and countries around the world. The
backbone of the effort will be national-level case studies
from coastal and island States, where most of the
world’s small-scale fishers live and work. Since the
publication of the 2012 study, additional regional and
global data sets have become available, including
household surveys and census information, nutritional
information on fish species, consumption among coastal
indigenous peoples and location-based catch estimates,
among others. Worldwide estimates will be generated to
the extent possible using a mixed-methods approach,
with data drawn from both the available global datasets
and the national case studies. The study may also
provide a framework for continual monitoring of the
socio-economic contributions from small-scale fisheries,
so that this information will remain available to policy-
makers and support the tracking of progress in the
implementation of the SSF Guidelines.
In these initiatives, better understanding of the
specific characteristics of small-scale fisheries
and capacit y development for key State and non-
State actors are commonly perceived needs. The interest in the SSF Guidelines by a wide
variet y of partners confirms their value as a tool
for triggering change. An important task for FAO
will be to support partners further in their efforts
to apply and mainstream the SSF Guidelines, and
to facilitate a learning and experience sharing
process that can inform future implementation. A
key requirement for application of the SSF
Guidelines is to improve information on small-
scale fisheries (see Box 19). New information and
communication technolog y (ICT) provides
opportunities for small-scale fisheries in areas
such as safet y, governance, efficiency, capacit y
building, networking and sharing of local
knowledge (Box 20).
Stakeholder empowerment remains a key pillar of
SSF Guidelines implementation. Fisher
organizations continue to take an active role in
raising awareness and supporting organizational
strengthening. In particular, member organizations
of the International Planning Committee for Food
Sovereignty (IPC) Fisheries Working Group
organized five national and two regional
consultations in support of SSF Guidelines
implementation in 2016–2017. They, as well as other
partners, are also responsible for translating the
SSF Guidelines into non-FAO languages, including
Bengali, Kannada, Portuguese and Tamil. FAO
partnered with the Fund for the Development of the
Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the
Caribbean to develop capacities of indigenous
peoples’ representatives, and with governments
and OSPESCA in Central America to use the SSF
Guidelines as a constructive tool for empowerment.
Assessing small-scale aquaculture
Small-scale aquaculture contributes to global
aquaculture production and to rural livelihood
development through provision of food,
livelihoods and income-generating opportunities,
improving social equit y and enhancing the
qualit y of life of poor rural communities. In the »
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