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MARINE POLICY
卷 136, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104925
关键词
Small-scale fisheries; Fisheries development; Sustainable fisheries; Artisanal fisheries; Sustainable practices
资金
- African Union InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR)
Small-scale fisheries play a crucial role in poverty alleviation and food security in Africa. To guide realistic policy reform and sustainable development projects, it is important to support local governance, develop integrated policies focusing on food security, invest in low-cost innovation, diversify fishing practices and livelihoods opportunities, and support existing infrastructure and initiatives.
Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) play a significant role in ensuring food security, providing employment and generating livelihoods, however the sustainability and viability of their existence into the future is under threat with global pressures such as climate change, the increasing industrialisation of larger fishing activities and depleting fish stocks. The objectives of this article are to highlight the contributions of SSFs to poverty alleviation and food security and document the lessons learned and best practices for small-scale fisheries development in Africa to guide realistic policy reform and sustainable development projects. This paper brings together lessons from the development of Africa's SSFs over the last thirty years alongside a range of case studies, taken from across the continent, of best practices for further development of SSFs from the perspective of food and nutrition security and of improving livelihoods and income. The key findings of best practices and their application to the sustainable development of African SSFs were: (i) supporting local or community governance; (ii) developing integrated, system-oriented policies which focus on the role SSFs play in food and nutrition security; (iii) investing in low cost innovation; (iv) diversifying fishing practices and livelihoods opportunities; and (v) supporting and cross-pollinating existing infrastructure and initiatives. The effective implementation of these practices by projects or governments necessitates the mobilisation of resources, on-the-ground engagement with stakeholders and using local knowledge to make meaningful change.
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