Vulnerability to Viability (V2V) Global Partnership for building strong small-scale fisheries communities

Abstract

Small-scale fisheries (SSF) support over 90 percent of the 120 million people engaged in capture fisheries globally (FAO, 2015). They also contribute two-thirds of the global fish catch destined for direct human
consumption, and provide critical contributions to food security, poverty alleviation, and local and national economies (FAO, 2015). Most SSF communities are economically marginalised, increasingly vulnerable to
climate and environmental changes, and, until recently (Berkes, 2015), they have remained largely invisible in global and national policy debates. However, the prognosis is not all negative. SSF possess certain strengths and forms of resilience upon which to build viable solutions to combat food insecurity and poverty (Bundy et al., 2016; Bavinck et al., 2018; Nayak and
Armitage, 2018)