The presentation emphasize on the small-scale fisheries value chain

1. 7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
FAO
Rome, Italy
26 – 29 June, 2018
Fisheries Tenure Team
Policy, Economics and Institutions Branch (FIAP)
Lechuga, Kitolelei, Wang, Acquaye, HimesCornell, Oh, Metzner

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Introduction, Overview
Changing tenure, changing outcomes
• Role play
• Group discussion on outcomes
• Emerging key issues/challenges, prospects/opportunities
Note: Emphasis on small-scale fisheries value chain

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Main Actors
The Elders:
• Decision takers and rule makers
• Entrusted by the community for taking care of it
• They take into consideration the opinion of the community when listening
making the rules
The Fishermen:
• Only men fish in the community.
• Usually the eldest sons of fishermen’s families.
• Main activity and role is to catch the fish and they give it to their wives .

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Main Actors
The Women:
• Take care of feeding the family.
• Process the fish that is not used for self-consumption by drying and smoking it.
• Sell all to the merchants that come to the community (work as a group, sell at same price).
• They keep the family’s money.
The Merchants:
• Wander from fishing community to fishing community along the edge of the Big Sea.
• Buy the dried, smoked fish from the women of the communities in exchange of money
• Give the possibility of buying other things (as fabrics)
• Sell the fish in the big towns located inland
Extra: Mobile phones mean they are informed (via SMS) of different city market prices

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A sea change
The Elders, convinced by their sons, they are willing to ensure 3 new things:
1) Ensuring access rights of the fishermen in the community
• Access to the traditional fishing ground by legal entitlement
• Fishermen that no longer fish have to sell or loan their fishing rights
2) Consultative decision making
• Future new laws based on consultation with the people in the community
• First consultation a week after the merchants have come to trade
3) The women of the community are the only ones entitled to possess the fish
• What a fishermen catch must to be given to his wife
• In case of not having a wife, the catch must to be given out in equal shares to the wives of
his brothers
• If he does not have brother, the fish must go to his aunts and the wives of his uncle.

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A sea change
How will the different actors behave now that
the Elders have implemented new rules?

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For discussion
What changes will occur?
1. Will Fisherman #4 get to fish?
2. Will Merchant #1 only buy from the women?
3. How Can Merchant #3 work with Fisherman #2?
4. Will Woman #1 go independent from the community?

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Key issues, challenges
• The hidden stakeholders with weak tenure
• Marginalization / unequal participation, involvement / unequal distribution of benefits
• Recognition & respect
• Transparency & accountability
• Technology, infrastructure
• Post harvest losses
• Limited value addition
• Evolving trade regulations, limited information flows
• Insufficient landing, processing, marketing infrastructure
• Political will, sector governance
• Lack of valuation of ssf sector
• Insecure tenure leading to displacement

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Key prospects
• Recognizing the hidden stakeholders
• Improving post-harvest
• Improvements in handling, processing
• Loss reduction, value addition
• Socially sustainable value chains
• Increasing political will, sectoral governance
• Changing generations
• SDGs – gender, Indigenous People
• Disruptive technologies
• ICT developments

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Key opportunities
• Balances of power shifting
• Empowerment of marginalized sectors, stakeholders
• Improved governance, policy, management frameworks
• VGGT, SSF Guidelines, RAI, SGDs
• Increased sector advocacy
• Growing recognition (and mapping) of land – forestry – fisheries nexus
Submerged forests, fisheries Mangrove-based fisheries
Landing/drying-smoking sites Watershed management
Benthic resources

11. Thank you!
The fisheries tenure team
7th Capitalization Meeting
EU Land Governance Programme
FAO
Rome, Italy
26 – 29 June, 2018