In this story by Béatrice Gorez and Dawda Foday Saine and first published in the Yemaya magazine in November, the authors look at the obscuring future of women in fisheries in Gambia as the dense fumes of fishmeal factories are being regurgitated into the environment. Fishmeal factories compete with women for access to small pelagics, and encourage overfishing and illegal fishing.
Discussing the draft of an own-initiative report, the European Parliament PECH committee reminds the European Commission that artisanal fisheries are the most vulnerable and fragile sector of the Blue Economy and insists on the strategic role of aquaculture and fisheries as providers of healthy food and jobs for the future.
The Finance in Common (FiC) summit will be discussing food security and agribusiness, supposedly building on the UN Food Systems Summit, for which civil society already expressed concerns. On this occasion, more than 270 small-scale producers, indigenous peoples and civil society organisations, including CFFA, publish a joint statement.
