Comment/Editorial: Deal with hunger and poverty first

ICSF, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (2004) Comment/Editorial: Deal with hunger and poverty first. Samudra Report (37). p. 1. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

The discussions and decisions on Agenda Item 18.2 on marine and coastal biological diversity at the recently concluded Seventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP7) are highly relevant to the over 200 million artisanal and small-scale fishworkers, most of whom are from the developing world. Coastal and indigenous fishing communities undoubtedly have a long-term stake in the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity, given their reliance on coastal and marine biodiversity for livelihoods and income. It should not, therefore, come as any surprise that several decades before issues of conservation and sustainability of coastal and marine resources became part of the international agenda, fishworkers in many countries of the developing world were drawing attention to, among other things, the negative impacts of pollution, uncontrolled expansion of industrial fisheries and aquaculture, and technologies such as bottom trawling for shrimp, both on coastal biodiversity and on their livelihoods.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0475
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Hunger, Poverty, Conference of Parties (COP), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Indigenous Communities, Comment/Editorial
Subjects:	Biodiversity
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2021 11:23
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 10:10
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/1244

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