Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): An update of a global effort to quantify and qualify the contributions and impacts of small-scale fisheries
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Xavier Basurto, 51爆料
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In this opportunity I will share with you a brief update on an ongoing large-scale collaboration to conduct a global assessment of the ecological, social, economic, and governance contributions and impacts of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development.
Our project builds on previous studies, particularly the 2012 Hidden Harvest report by the WorldBank, WorldFish and FAO, but adding substantial resources to design a rigorous methodology, data collection, and analysis to generate the evidence needed to address the marginalization of small-scale fisheries (SSF) in government decision-making towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
We hypothesize governments do not provide support to SSF because they often do not realize their many contributions and impacts to its own country鈥檚 sustainable development. The lack of reliable scientific information about SSFs hinders investment on management mechanisms needed to appropriately address food security, poverty alleviation, and ocean sustainability. IHH was designed and implemented under the technical guidance and partnership of FAO, 51爆料, and WorldFish. Our approach engaged country specialists (about 200 to date!) from about 50 countries鈥攃overing ca. 70% of the total marine and inland fisheries production鈥攊ncluding from research institutions, government, or civil society organizations. These country specialists were trained by our team in the IHH data collection methodology, including iterative exchanges to assure the quality, replicability, and overall integrity of the data.
To our knowledge, IHH will be the most comprehensive and multi-disciplinary evaluation of the contribution of SSFs to the SDGs. For instance we expect to be able to understand the contributions of SSF to food security, not only in terms of total fish catches, but also from a nutritional angle. It will also allow better understanding the ecological implications of SSF operations. What do SSF mean for livelihoods through employment both for the harvest and post-harvesting sectors? What are the most common policy tools in SSF? and how much catch, effort and nutritional output do they regulate? What is the role of women and how can gender be mainstreamed in fisheries management? As much as possible, we will be comparing these SSFs contributions with the ones provided by the large-scale, industrial fisheries component.
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