Medidas de Gestao das Pescarias Marinhas e Aquicultura 2019 The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 | Page 179

THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 2018
communities, reducing rural poverty and
contributing to broader rural development
outcomes. FAO and GFCM are jointly organizing a
study to explore the social protection systems
available to small-scale fishing communities in
Albania, Eg ypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia.
This work will generate evidence that will be used
to provide policy support and to foster policy and
programme coherence at the country level.
and collective cooperation, as well as livelihood
diversification strategies.
OSH risks, diminishing aquatic resources, lack of
user and access rights, exposure to climate and
weather risks and political and social
marginalization can lead fishing and aquaculture
dependent communities – men and women – to
become trapped in a vicious circle of poverty
(Béné, Devereux and Roelen, 2015). Social
protection, which includes social assistance in
kind and in cash transfers, contributory social
security and labour market policies (FAO, 2017x),
has the potential to reduce vulnerabilities, prevent
negative coping strategies and reduce market
failures affecting fishers and fish workers. In
addition to shielding and protecting the poorest
and most vulnerable, social protection is also
increasingly recognized as a tool for empowering
FAO is also working in Cambodia and Myanmar,
along with partners, to assess the state of social
protection and povert y dimensions in the
fisheries sector. The results will be used to design
national social protection responses that
adequately cover fishers, fish farmers and fish
workers and take into account specificities such
as fishing seasonalit y, high mobilit y, poor user
and access rights and occupational hazards. n
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