International Planning Committee
for Food Sovereignty (IPC)
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World Fisheries Day 2023: time to realize small-scale fishers’ rights
Small-scale fishers are essential for feeding the world. Still, they are not properly recognized by most governments and institutions. In a context of rising hunger and food insecurity, this cannot be accepted anymore. On World Fisheries Day 2023 the IPC reiterate its call on governments to support SSF communities through dedicated policy actions, in order to…
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Beyond World Food Day: time to join our efforts towards the achievement of Food sovereignty
The World Food Day is an occasion for small-scale food producers’ organizations to celebrate the crucial role of peasant agriculture, family farming, artisanal fisheries, Indigenous Peoples’ food systems, consumers, and all forms of food production that take place on a community and territorial level in feeding the world. Rural and water communities and Indigenous People…
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12 october: join the webinar on corporate capture
The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) organises an online public briefing to shed light on the creeping process of corporate takeover of FAO and other UN agencies at the expense of states, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples and civil society. Panelists will be representatives of small-scale food producers: Saúl Vicente Vásquez, International Indian…
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Small-scale fishers from LAC region meet in Argentina
The member of the Regional Advisory Group for Latin America and the Caribbean (RAG LAC), composed of members from the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP), the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers (WFF), the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), and La Vía Campesina (LVC), from Chile, Argentina, Panama, Mexico, Ecuador, Honduras, and…
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RAG Asia-Pacific: Days to reflect, unite and build change for fishers’ communities
One year after their meeting in Bangkok in May 2022, the members of the Regional Advisory Groups for Asia and the Pacific reconvened in Negombo, Sri Lanka from the 5th to the 11th April. This time, the RAG Asia members were joined by 10 SSF representatives from various countries, including Thailand, Sri-Lanka, New Zealand, India,… -
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Fisheries
Fisheries About the Working Group PRESENTATION OF THE WORKING GROUP Small-scale fisheries (SSF) communities have a unique bond with water, the element shaping their local culture and around which social and economic life revolves. Those communities provide for proteins supply in their regions and represent an economic value all too often forgotten. Small-scale fisheries are… -
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Small-scale fishers’ dialogue continues in the Asia and Pacific Region
On 30th Nov 2022, The National Fisheries Solidarity Organization (NAFSO) team facilitated a dialogue on ensuring sustainable livelihoods among vulnerable fishing communities with 43 CSO representatives from 12 different Organizations representing 10 Districts in Sri Lanka, among which there were: FOSDOO, NAHRO, newAROW, Save a Life, UPSAC SRILANKA, CJC, FRC, HEO, HOPE, JSAC, MSEDO, MWDT,…
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The IPC is in South Africa to create new alliances for Small Scale Fisheries
From the 18th to the 24th of November, the Regional Advisory Group (RAG) in Africa meets in Cape Town, South Africa not only to take part into a Fisher-to-Fisher exchange and training co-organised by Masifundise Development Trust, TNI, FIAN and Centro Internazionale Crocevia, but also to plan for its strategy at the continental level. The meeting reunited the members of the World Forum of Fishers People (WFFP),…
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The IPC develops a People-Centred Methodology for monitoring the SSF policies
In the summer of 2021, the members of the SSF-GSF Advisory Group with the support of the IPC WG on Fisheries, decided to develop a methodology for assessing the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication; the main international UN instrument to protect and promote the…
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Food Sovereignty is the only solution and way forward
World Food Day 2022 Statement Our fragile world faces an impending global food crisis. The impact of COVID-19 pushed more people into poverty. Lockdowns devastated family livelihoods, the economy, and disrupted supply chains. Globally, according to the GRFC 2022, levels of hunger remain as alarmingly high as in 2021, around 193 million people are acutely…
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The IPC Facilitation Committee meets in Rome
Last few days were so inspiring! Just after the FAO Comittee on Fisheries we jumped into another key moment for the IPC: the meeting of the Facilitation Committee. Representatives of the different articulations of the IPC came to Rome to discuss how to strengthen and to advance the food sovereignty agenda. The meeting was centered…
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One week at the COFI: our work for small-scale fisheries
From the 5th to the 9th September 2022, an IPC Delegation took part to the 35th Session of the Committee on Fisheries of the FAO in Rome. This 35th COFI represented a crucial moment for small scale fisher people and indigenous peoples, not just because 2022 is the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture…
