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Meet Diaba Diop - President of REFEPAS, the Network of Women in Artisanal Fisheries in Senegal, representing women fish processors and traders across Senegal's coastal communities.
This week at @o...
Nearly 30 per cent of the world’s population lives in coastal areas.
And one in every 12 people globally — nearly half of them women — depend at least partly on small-scale fishing for their livel...
Small-scale fisheries depend on the knowledge, labour, and leadership of both women and men. But, decision-making spaces often fail to reflect that reality.
Across the tropics, women play vital ro...
In this webinar, Dr Anna Schuhbauer presents new global research on the impacts of bottom trawling on food security, drawing on case studies from coastal communities around the world. The findings ...
In the coastal tropics, climate change combines with poverty and ecosystem collapse to create a perfect storm.
We work with the coastal fishing communities who have stewarded these places for mil...
In the coastal waters of Madagascar, local communities have stepped forward as guardians of their mangrove forests.
Mangrove patrollers are the frontline defenders of Madagascar's mangroves. Worki...
At first, fishers were hesitant.
Data collectors recorded catch info with notebooks, and months would pass before results were shared.
Then came smartphones.
Now, coastal communities can collect...
📱 Smartphones are changing lives — not just in cities, but on the coast of Madagascar.
Here, Vezo fishers are using simple apps to log their daily catch — turning local knowledge into powerful dat..
🌊 Generations of ocean wisdom.
🎣 Now facing climate chaos, overfishing, and a fight for survival.
In southwest Madagascar, Vezo fishers have always read the sea — but the tides are changing fast. .
Data is a powerful tool for change—when it’s in the hands of communities.
Our approach supports fishers and local partners to collect, understand, and use their own data to strengthen local govern...
"Fishers, as food producers who should be recognised as protein heroes, and as key contributors to national food security, are instead left struggling to provide for our families."
And yet we are ...
https://transformbottomtrawling.org/
Every day, industrial trawlers drag huge weighted nets across the ocean floor, destroying marine habitats, threatening livelihoods, and releasing vast stores o...
Find out more about our work building coalitions at transformbottomtrawling.org
🐠 "There are so many fish!" 🐠
BV’s Velondriake science team has been busy conducting a survey in the seagrass no-take zone in Antseragnasoa. They documented their findings to engage the wider com.
Learn more about the Frontline Community Fund at www.frontlinefund.org