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Webinar
26
Apr
Role of Fish Farmers Producer Organizations (FFPO’s) in facilitating inclusive financial services for small-scale fisheries (SSF)
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
11.00 am Rome, 12.00 noon Kenya, 2.30 pm Delhi, 4.00 pm Bangkok, 5.00 pm Manila
*Please contact info@rfilc.org for the credential of this webinar
Summary of the event
The webinar on “Role of Fish Farmers Producer Organizations (FFPO’s) in facilitating inclusive financial services for small-scale fisheries (SSF)” was organized by the Global Network for capacity building to increase access of small-scale fisheries to financial services – CAFI SSF Network, in association with Asia and Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA) on 26 April 2022. Around 80 participants from financial services industry, fisherfolk associations, government agency and academic institutions attended the virtual event from Europe, Asia & Africa regions.
The Chief Guest for the event Dr. Raymon van Anrooy Senior Fishery Officer, Fishing Operations and Technology Branch, FAO gave an overview to participants on International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA2022) and how financial service providers and fisher/fish farmer producer organizations can get involved and organize a IYAFA2022 activity.
The distinguished panel of speakers were representatives from National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) and Assam Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Services (ARIAS) Society. These institutions have played a significant role in developing fisheries and aquaculture in India, particularly small-scale fisheries, and aquaculture producers. Each of the speakers shared their institutions experience of best practices, development process and success stories that enhanced the fish productivity and support provided to the FFPOs to sustain and scale-up
The insightful and informative discussion focused on following aspects:
- how Fish Farmer Producer Organizations (FFPOs) is one of the innovative approaches to increase and provide end-to-end support and services with respect to technical inputs (feed and seed supply, training), processing, marketing, and provide access to financial advice and services for small-scale fishers and fish farmers.
- how financial institutions provide credit and non-credit interventions to support FFPOs that have large member base of primary producers,
- how capacity building programs can increase awareness of small-scale fish producers to access finance and tap market opportunities in fish value chain.
The online session recording is shared below
Background
The Food and Agriculture Organization supported initiative CAFI SSF Network continues to align its activities and programmes, promote dialogue, ideas, and solutions to build capacity for the provision of credit, microfinance and insurance services to small-scale fisheries and aquaculture across regions. The network contributes to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #14, target 14.B: Provide access for small-scale artisanal fisheries to marine resources and markets.
As we celebrate, the International Year of Artisanal fisheries (IYAFA 2022), which has brought forth a focus on small-scale fisheries (SSF) this includes both marine and inland water capture fisheries and aquaculture. SSF provide nutritious food for local, national, regional and international markets and generates income to support local and national economies.
The small in scale and big in value economic activity is predominant in the Asia region which supports an estimated 85 percent of primary sector workers engaged in fishery and aquaculture activities followed by 9 percent in Africa region (FAO 2020), majority are small-scale in operations. Small-scale fishery producers in general do not have the volume in individual capacity to get the benefits of economies of scale as there are several intermediaries in the fish value chain, the input cost is another limiting constraint in addition to the complex and dynamic business activity coupled with barrier of working capital cost.
To overcome the constraints and tap the potential of small-scale fish producers, different forms of collectives evolved across the regions and are assumed to provide SSF better information on technology, investments, and market opportunity. According to FAO, farmer/fish farmer producer organizations are essential institutions for the empowerment, poverty alleviation and advancement of fishers, fish farmers and rural poor.
CAFI SSF Network through this webinar brings to its member organizations and interested participants an informative discussion on the emergence of fish farmer producer organizations (FFPO) in India and shares a successful operational and scalable model particularly for SSF.
What will we cover:
- emerging trends in Asia region on how Fish Farmer Producer Organizations (FFPOs) is one among the innovative approaches to increase and provide end-to-end support and services with respect to technical inputs (feed and seed supply, training), processing, marketing, and provide access to financial advice and services for small-scale fishers and fish farmers,
- how financial institutions provide credit and non-credit interventions to support FFPOs that have large member base of primary producers,
- how capacity building programs can increase awareness of small-scale fish producers to access finance and tap market opportunities in fish value chain.
- Region Asia
- Language English
- Keywords FAO- CAFI SSF Network Webinar Talk Series, small-scale fisheries (SSF)