SAMUDRA Report No.92, December 2024 published by ICSF

The SAMUDRA Report No. 92, dated December 2024, features, mainly, two sets of articles – one dealing with reflections on the second international Small-scale Fisheries (SSF) Summit, held in Rome in July 2024, and the other focusing on the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

SSF Summit: Referring to the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (the SSF Guidelines), Nicole Franz, Equitable Livelihoods Team Leader at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), points out that the objective of the second international Small-scale Fisheries (SSF) Summit, held in Rome in July 2024, was "to further develop and consolidate the Global Strategic Framework in Support of the Implementation of the SSF Guidelines (SSF-GSF), as a partnership mechanism giving small-scale fishery actors, government representatives and other stakeholders a space to collaborate at a global level".

CBD COP16: Reflecting on the initiatives and actions involved in the whole-of-society mobilization for biodiversity, Ronald Rodriguez, Programme Officer at ICSF, emphasizes that continued engagement with the processes related to the CBD will ensure that small-scale fishworkers are recognized as active participants in the negotiation and implementation of the agreements.

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