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Resolution GFCM/45/2022/1 on empowering women in the aquaculture sector.

Country/Territory
Document type
Miscellaneous
Date
2022
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries
Keyword
Access-to-information Aquaculture Capacity building Education Fishery management and conservation Gender Governance Mariculture Poverty
Entry into force notes
This Resolution shall enter into force at the latest on 1 January 2024.
Abstract

This Resolution recognizes the important contribution of women working in aquaculture and the sector’s essential role in economic development and as a source of food and income for coastal communities of contracting parties and cooperating non-contracting parties. To this end, this Resolution encourages the contracting parties and cooperating non-contracting parties to promote and support the empowerment of women in the aquaculture sector through the development of relevant national and/or sectoral strategies and policies, in order to achieve gender equality and equity in marine and inland aquaculture in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

Full text
English
Website
www.fao.org