Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture for Food Security and Nutrition1

Committee on World Food Security

Policy recommendations SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES AND with a core focus on:

NO ZERO LIFE PEACE, JUSTICE PARTNERSHIPS AQUACULTURE FOR FOOD POVERTY HUNGER BELOW WATER AND STRONG FOR THE GOALS INSTITUTIONS SECURITY AND NUTRITION Contributes to SDG 5, 6, 8, 10, 13 & 15 The Committee on World Food Security (CFS), 41st Session, 2014, endorsed the following recommendations on Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture for Food Security and Nutrition1.

The Committee:

1 Welcomed the Report of as a provider of income and and enhance the contribution the High-Level Panel of Experts livelihoods. of sustainable fisheries and on Food Security and Nutrition aquaculture to nutrition and (HLPE) “Sustainable fisheries and 3 Recognized that the food security: aquaculture for food security and sustainability of fisheries and nutrition”, and acknowledged aquaculture is a fundamental its findings as an important condition for food security and A Give to fish the position contribution to the CFS nutrition. it deserves in food security recommendations. and nutrition strategies, 4 Recommended the policies and programmes 2 Recognized the contribution following actions by of fisheries and aquaculture stakeholders to address ĵĵ Make fish a visible, integral to food security and nutrition, the development, policy, element in food security and as a primary source of protein management and enforcement nutrition strategies, policies and and essential nutrients, and challenges in order to maintain programmes, with special regard

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to promoting fish as a source of impact of the production and of climate change on fisheries good protein and micronutrients. consumption of fish on nutrition. resources.

ĵĵ Encourage consumption ĵĵ Recognize the knowledge ĵĵ Mainstream and integrate of fish, especially by pregnant of local and indigenous fishing climate change adaptation and breastfeeding women, by communities and promote its in fisheries and aquaculture children, including through use regarding food security and policies, and include fisheries school feeding, and by elderly nutrition. and aquaculture considerations people. in policies on climate change, as appropriate. ĵĵ Promote food safety as an B Promote sustainable important element in food fisheries and aquaculture ĵĵ Identify and promote policies, security and nutrition. policies and management programmes and activities aimed and design climate change at addressing the impact of ĵĵ Support all efforts aimed at adaptation strategies for land-based agriculture, including addressing overcapacity and food security and nutrition the management of pollutants, overfishing in the context of food sediments and nutrients to security and nutrition, in line with ĵĵ Promote the implementation receiving coastal and inland the Rio+20 outcome document of the Food and Agriculture waters. “The Future We Want”. Organization of the United Nations (FAO) “Code of Conduct ĵĵ Support and promote for Responsible Fisheries” to C Seize the opportunities initiatives to minimize fish increase the contribution of and address the challenges discards and post-harvest losses fisheries to food security. of aquaculture development and waste at all steps of the fish value chain. ĵĵ Collect information and ĵĵ Promote and support data to improve knowledge research, innovation, and ĵĵ Strengthen international regarding the impacts of climate development initiatives that aim statistics and support research change on fish harvesting and at enhancing the contribution of to improve knowledge on the farming, and monitor the impact sustainable aquaculture to food

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security and nutrition with due ĵĵ Promote and support the and international policies and consideration to improved feed implementation of the ‘Voluntary programmes related to fisheries, efficiency and disease control. Guidelines for Securing including investment plans, as Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries appropriate. ĵĵ Promote the development in the Context of Food Security and implementation of south- and Poverty Eradication’ (VGSSF), ĵĵ Support local organizations south as well as north-south with respect to food security and to foster the integration of small- cooperation, to encourage nutrition. scale fisheries into the decision- sharing and learning experiences making processes. in aquaculture. ĵĵ Take into account the requirements of small-scale fisheries in the design and D Recognize the implementation of national contribution of small-scale fisheries

ĵĵ Recognize the specific contribution of small-scale fisheries to food security and nutrition.

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E Enhance fish market’s ĵĵ Seek to avoid trade measures F Improve social protection and trade’s contribution to that may disadvantage small- and labour rights food security and nutrition scale fisheries and small-scale aquaculture. ĵĵ Strive to improve the working ĵĵ Promote the inclusion of conditions of the fisheries and food security and nutrition in ĵĵ Promote a fair return aquaculture sectors, including the objectives of policies and along the fish value chain safety at sea, promoting decent mechanisms related to fish trade. and encourage direct trade work, eliminating forced and linkages between fish producers child labour and developing ĵĵ Strive to develop, promote and consumers with due social protection systems. and facilitate fish trade in support consideration to food safety. of food security and nutrition, ĵĵ Explore ways to integrate while avoiding creation of tariff the enforcement of fishing and and non-tariff barriers. labour regulations.

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G Fully address the gender H Integrate food security ĵĵ Consider the impact on dimension of the fisheries and nutrition concerns into food security and nutrition, and aquaculture sector fisheries and aquaculture- of policies, interventions and related policies and investments affecting fisheries programmes and aquaculture sector and their ĵĵ Give high priority to the communities. support of women in fisheries and aquaculture through ĵĵ Promote the implementation ĵĵ Strengthen international adequate planning, legislation, of the ‘Voluntary Guidelines on cooperation to build the capacity recognition or allocation of the Responsible Governance of developing countries, to: rights and resources, and the of Tenure of Land, Fisheries promotion of their contribution and Forests in the Context of kksustainably manage their to food security and nutrition. National Food Security`(VGGT), living aquatic resources; recognizing the particular ĵĵ Promote gender equality relevance of article 8.3 on kkprevent, deter and eliminate and women’s empowerment collectively used and managed Illegal Unreported and in fisheries and aquaculture, land, fisheries and forests. Unregulated (IUU) fishing; promoting their engagement and access to policies, ĵĵ Promote the participation kkpromote and support the investments, projects, and fishing of fishing communities and implementation of the VGSSF; and access rights systems. fish workers in all decisions that impact their livelihoods kkfacilitate access to finance ĵĵ Promote access to and enjoyment of the right to and markets especially for gender-adapted training and adequate food as defined by small-scale fisheries and small- collect appropriate gender- national laws. scale aquaculture; and disaggregated data. ĵĵ Promote the protection of kkstrengthen fishers and fish ĵĵ Recognize the work and existing rights and ongoing farmers associations; contribution of fisher women tenure over sites for food- involved in inshore and inland insecure people, fishing thereby increasing the harvesting, and secure the communities and indigenous contribution from fish to food protection of their rights in this and tribal peoples, taking into security and nutrition. context. account the VGGT.

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ĵĵ Take appropriate actions to ĵĵ Help facilitate improvement ĵĵ Make explicit reference to prevent, deter, and eliminate of fisheries-relevant policies fish resources fisheries and IUU fishing in line with national and strategies, by promoting aquaculture as vital in combating law and relevant international transparency and inclusiveness, hunger and securing nutritious instruments as applicable, especially effective participation food for everybody in all relevant recognizing the negative impacts of small-scale fisheries, and documents on agriculture, food of IUU fishing on local and global the integration of fisheries and security and nutrition. food security and nutrition. aquaculture issues into the major international programmes and initiatives, and giving due I Furthermore the consideration to food security, Committee invited FAO to: nutrition and poverty alleviation.

ĵĵ Take the lead in an effort to improve fish stock assessment tools and promote sustainable fisheries management approaches and aquaculture development for the improvement of the contribution of fish to food security and nutrition.

Invited its members and participants, stakeholders and Committee on Fisheries to:

ooRaise awareness of the importance of fisheries and aquaculture for food security and nutrition, in particular at the “Second International Conference on Nutrition” (ICN2), and towards the preparation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda and disseminate the HLPE “Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture for food security and nutrition” report and CFS recommendations to

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The policy recommendations are part of the CFS Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition (GSF)