Blue economy: splitting hairs
There is no reason to wait for consensus on what is justice before we do something about injustice in small-scale fisheries. With the Blue Economy/Blue Growth now spreading around the world, I believe the issue of social justice for small-scale fisheries is an important and increasingly urgent issue, also for social research. We now have the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines), a landmark achievement when member-states of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) endorsed them in June 2014. I believe that if states do nothing to implement the guidelines, the Blue Economy will come at a loss to small-scale fisheries. Then the many injustices they have faced for so long will only exacerbate.
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| Format: | article biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Subjects: | Environment, Fisheries, Sociology, ICSF, samudra Report, small-scale fisheries, SSF guidelines, FAO, blue economy, food security, fishing communities, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/41291 |
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