{"id":89084,"date":"2022-02-04T12:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T07:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/?post_type=samudra&p=89084"},"modified":"2022-02-04T12:57:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T07:27:34","slug":"setting-the-table","status":"publish","type":"samudra","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/samudra\/setting-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the Table"},"content":{"rendered":"
Report \/ Food<\/strong><\/p>\n Setting the Table<\/strong><\/p>\n A \u2018counter mobilization\u2019 to transform corporate food systems included a Global Virtual Rally that highlighted the critical role fisheries play in food security and nutrition<\/strong><\/p>\n This article is by\u00a0Elyse Mills<\/strong>\u00a0(elyse.icsf@gmail.com<\/a>), Programme Associate, ICSF;\u00a0Vivienne Solis Rivera<\/strong>\u00a0(vivienne.solis.rivera@gmail.com<\/a>),\u00a0Ravadee Prasertcharoensuk<\/strong>\u00a0(ravadee.prasertcharoensuk@gmail.com<\/a>),\u00a0Beatriz Mesquita<\/strong>\u00a0(mesquitabia@hotmail.com<\/a>) and\u00a0Benjamin Betey Campion<\/strong>\u00a0(bbcampion@gmail.com<\/a>), Members of ICSF;\u00a0Isaac Kweigyah<\/strong>\u00a0(canoeowners@gmail.com<\/a>), Chairman, Canoe and Fishing Gear Owners Association of Ghana (CaFGOAG); and\u00a0Na\u00edna Pierri<\/strong>\u00a0(pierrinai@gmail.com<\/a>), Professor, Federal University of Paran\u00e1, Brazil<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From 25 to 28 July 2021, civil society organizations (CSOs) from around the world participated in the Peoples\u2019 Counter Mobilization to Transform Corporate Food Systems. The Mobilization included an eight-hour Global Virtual Rally, with contributions from 100 organizations, three roundtable discussions, and 15 independent dialogues.<\/p>\n The Mobilization was organized in response to the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), which took place on 23 September 2021, and its three-day July Pre-Summit. CSOs, including the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Mechanism (CSM) and the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC), have been raising concerns about the Summit since it was announced in 2019, highlighting its lack of attention to addressing deep structural inequalities in food systems globally, and the failure of the Summit organizers to involve CSOs in its development. As three Special Rapporteurs on the Right to Food pointed out, CSOs were only invited to a table that had already been set.<\/p>\n This unique, integrated way of life that provides subsistence for small-scale fishermen and women must be protected.<\/strong><\/p>\n The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF), in collaboration with small-scale fishing communities around the world, participated in the Mobilization, and made contributions to the Global Virtual Rally. These contributions highlighted the critical role fisheries play in global food security and nutrition; the many challenges fishing communities face in securing their rights to gender, livelihoods, and access to fisheries resources and territories; and solutions for these challenges.<\/p>\n Country wise responses follow:<\/strong><\/p>\n Costa Rica: The importance of small-scale fisheries for food security and cultural diversity<\/strong><\/p>\n Small-scale artisanal fisheries provide food security and employment for coastal communities throughout Costa Rica. These fisheries are also important for the cultural identity, vitality, inter-generational transfer of traditional knowledge about fisheries and marine resources, and collective action and well-being. This unique, integrated way of life that provides subsistence for small-scale fishermen and women must be protected.<\/p>\n Small-scale fishing communities face many challenges caused by climate change and a \u2018Blue Economy\u2019 paradigm that\u2014rather than promoting a fair and equitable distribution of benefits\u2014generates inequitable development on the coasts and in marine areas of the country. Despite these challenges, protecting the cultural identity and productive diversity in marine territories, ensuring secure tenure rights over land and marine fishery resources, and promoting decent work for fisherwomen, including those who collect mollusks and contribute to diverse fisheries value chains, are all fundamental elements to maintaining resilient small-scale fishing communities.<\/p>\n Local governance<\/strong><\/p>\n Costa Rica\u2019s network of marine responsible fishing areas and \u2018marine territories of life\u2019 are good examples of local governance. It also ensures the participation of fishers and mollusk collectors and the integration of their traditional knowledge in management. In the face of exclusionary conservation initiatives, the fishers are fighting for the formalization of their productive activities, to ensure that their work is not criminalized. These territories are fundamental, not only for the continued existence of the artisanal sector on both of the country\u2019s coasts (the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea), but also for the food security of thousands of Costa Ricans living in coastal areas.<\/p>\n Thailand: Strengthening evidence-based advocacy in small-scale fisheries and coastal aquaculture<\/strong><\/p>\n Marine ecosystems are a source of livelihoods, food security and nutrition for small-scale fishing communities across Thailand. These communities are being negatively impacted by the expansion of coastal \u2018development\u2019 projects, such as seaports, large-scale aquaculture, industrial zones, and offshore energy and tourism projects. Small-scale coastal aquaculture, which has traditionally been practised by many small-scale fishers as an additional source of food and income, is being threatened by investment in industrial aquaculture. The government is leasing out commonly shared coastal areas to private entities, leading to food insecurity, insecure livelihoods, and loss of income for small-scale fishers.<\/p>\n
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