Comment/Editorial: Small scale, large agenda

ICSF, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (2003) Comment/Editorial: Small scale, large agenda. Samudra Report (34). p. 1. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

The 25th Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations (FAO) was held from 24 to 28 February 2003 at Rome. Notably, one of the agenda items was on ‘Strategies for Increasing the Sustainable Contribution of Small-scale Fisheries to Food Security and Poverty Alleviation’. The last time small-scale fisheries was on the agenda of COFI was 20 years ago, in 1983, in the lead-up to the FAO World Conference on Fisheries Management and Development in 1984. The inclusion of this agenda item was particularly appropriate, given the recently organized World Food Summit and the World Summit on Sustainable Development, both of which focused on the importance of eradicating hunger and poverty. It was also appropriate in view of the process being initiated by the FAO to develop “voluntary guidelines to achieve the progressive realization of the right to adequate food”, as a follow-up to the World Food Summit.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0434
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Committee on Fisheries (COFI), Sustainable Development, Small-scale Fisheries, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Socio Economic Security, Comment/Editorial
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2021 11:25
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 11:14
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/1153

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