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The Role of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines in Reclaiming Human Rights for Small-Scale Fishing People in Colombia

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For more than five decades, small-scale fisheries in Colombia have felt the devastating consequences of armed conflict and human rights violations. There is now a hope that the peace process will give the country a new start, and help to improve the well-being of small-scale fisheries communities and the sustainability of their natural resources. After the civil war and the drug violence, the government now has the opportunity to focus more on people’s welfare and livelihood needs. With the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF Guidelines) endorsed by FAO member states in 2014, a new direction is outlined. Fisheries in Colombia suffer from the lack of a firm institutional foundation and a dysfunctional governance system, which has resulted in poor coordination of policies and actions targeting small-scale fisheries. This may also be a problem for the implementation of the broad agenda of the SSF Guidelines, which must engage governmental, non-governmental, private, and public institutions at the national, regional, and local levels alike. This chapter argues that there is a need for governance reform to facilitate the incorporation and implementation of international agreements such as the SSF Guidelines and related instruments. Its mandate should be to convert these commitments into national policies, management strategies, and regulations in accordance with the human rights and good governance principles and ambitions of the SSF Guidelines. This would also be an opportunity to involve all stakeholders and bring them under the same umbrella.

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  1. Programas de Biología e Ingeniería Pesquera, Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia

    Lina María Saavedra-Díaz

  2. Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

    Svein Jentoft

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  2. Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

    Ratana Chuenpagdee

  3. Development and Knowledge Sociology Working Group, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research – ZMT, Bremen, Germany

    María José Barragán-Paladines

  4. Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy

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Saavedra-Díaz, L.M., Jentoft, S. (2017). The Role of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines in Reclaiming Human Rights for Small-Scale Fishing People in Colombia. In: Jentoft, S., Chuenpagdee, R., Barragán-Paladines, M., Franz, N. (eds) The Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines. MARE Publication Series, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55074-9_27

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