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Towards IYAFA 2022: African youth at the heart of the preparations

Published On July 11, 2021 Published By Aliou

“Youth remains an indispensable element in all human institutions and enterprises, as well as in artisanal fisheries.” Reinforced by this assertion, the African Confederation of Professional Organizations of Artisanal Fisheries (CAOPA) organized from 28 to 30 June 2021, in Saly-Portudal, Sen...

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Towards IYAFA 2022: Women’s voices in the spotlight

Published On July 9, 2021 Published By Aliou

Awareness raising, promotion of dialogue and collaboration between artisanal fisheries stakeholders are essential for the sustainable development of the sector in Africa. This is within the framework of the implementation of the FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries...

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Ghana: Towards an Action Plan for the Implementation of the SSF Voluntary Guidelines

Published On July 5, 2021 Published By Aliou

“They have fed the world. They have come from a place where they have been ignored. And now for the first time the world is looking in their direction. They are too big to ignore… Small-scale fisher’s lives matter.” Rebecca SACKEY-MENSAH, Snr. Fisheries Manager at Ghana Fisheries Com...

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CAOPA congratulates Mauritania and Seychelles on the publication of their first FITI report

Published On June 29, 2021 Published By Aliou

PRESS RELEASE Mbour/Senegal: Tuesday, 29 June 2021- In May 2021, the Republic of Seychelles produced its first report under the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI). This report was followed a month later by Mauritania’s first report....

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Ghana hosts training on the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries

Published On June 22, 2021 Published By Aliou

The African Confederation of Professional Organizations of Artisanal Fisheries (CAOPA) in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for Africa (FAORAF) and the Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council (GNCFC) are organizing an “Information Shar...

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Senegal: Media professionals at the school of the Voluntary Guidelines for Artisanal Fisheries

Published On June 3, 2021 Published By Aliou

Some forty journalists and community radio presenters from Senegal were trained in Saint-Louis on the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries (SSF). This information and awareness-raising workshop for the Association of Fisheries community radios stations presenters and generalist...

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Mali: On track for the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable small- Fisheries

Published On May 25, 2021 Published By Aliou

From 20 to 21 May 2021, Bamako hosted a workshop on “sharing and reflection/awareness-raising on the Voluntary Guidelines to ensure small-scale fisheries” in the context of food security and the fight against poverty....

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Mali: CAOPA on the way to implementing the SSF Guidelines

Published On May 19, 2021 Published By Aliou

The African Confederation of Professional Organizations of Artisanal Fisheries (CAOPA), FAO, the national collective of fish industry organizations in Mali in collaboration with the Ministry in charge of fisheries is organizing a workshop in Bamako on 20 and 21 May 2021 to “share and discuss o...

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Overexploitation of sardinella in Senegal: A threat to food security

Published On May 1, 2021 Published By Aliou

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12.3 million people work in fisheries in Africa, including over 7.5 million men and 2.3 million women in artisanal fisheries. The FAO reports that fish accounts for an average of 22% of protein intake in sub-Saharan Africa; in some countr...

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Fishmeal plant: A threat to food and nutritional security?

Published On April 21, 2021 Published By Aliou

The setting up of fishmeal production plants can intensify the over-exploitation of fisheries resources in Senegal and the West African sub-region, warned the president of the association for the promotion and empowerment of maritime fisheries actors (APRAPAM). Gaoussou Gueye spoke on this sub...

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Towards IYAFA 2022: African youth at the heart of the preparations

Towards IYAFA 2022: Women’s voices in the spotlight

Ghana: Towards an Action Plan for the Implementation of the SSF Voluntary Guidelines

CAOPA congratulates Mauritania and Seychelles on the publication of their first FITI report

Ghana hosts training on the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries

Senegal: Media professionals at the school of the Voluntary Guidelines for Artisanal Fisheries

Mali: On track for the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable small- Fisheries

Mali: CAOPA on the way to implementing the SSF Guidelines

Overexploitation of sardinella in Senegal: A threat to food security

Fishmeal plant: A threat to food and nutritional security?