The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020

particular, Chapter 5 (Governance of tenure in 
small-scale fisheries and resource management), 
and Chapter 7 (Value chains, post-harvest and 
trade) (
Figure 48
). 
An analysis of the voluntary commitments made 
at the high-level United Nations Conference 
to Support the Implementation of SDG 14 in 
June 2017 revealed that 278 commitments for 
SDG Target 14.b had been submitted by a wide 
variety of stakeholders (United Nations, 2019a). 
The commitments covered issues such as: 
community empowerment in managing marine 
resources; improving access to coastal fishing 
FIGURE 47
IMPLEMENTATION OF INSTRUMENTS FOR ACCESS TO RESOURCES AND MARKETS FOR
SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES, SDG REGIONAL GROUPINGS, 2018
5 = HIGHEST
0
1
2
3
4
5
WORLD
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
EUROPE AND NORTHERN AMERICA
NORTHERN AFRICA AND WESTERN ASIA
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
EASTERN AND SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ASIA
OCEANIA (EXCLUDING AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND)
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
LEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES
SOURCE: FAO, 2019j.
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PART 2 
SUSTAINABILITY IN ACTION
grounds; improving human and institutional 
capacity; and transfer of fishing technologies. 
Access to markets generally included actions 
such as improving traceability, certification and 
ecolabelling as well as access to market-based 
instruments, and related capacity building for 
fishing communities. Moreover, the 3rd World 
Small-Scale Fisheries Congress, organized 
by the research network Too Big To Ignore 
in Thailand in October 2018 (Ramírez Luna, 
Kereži and Saldaña, 2018), also discussed SDG 
Target 14.b. 
The declaration by the United Nations General 
Assembly of 2022 as the International Year of 
Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (see 
Box 12
, 
p. 117) will provide an important milestone 
to assess progress towards achieving SDG 
FIGURE 48
THE SSF GUIDELINES AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
ENHANCE 
CONTRIBUTION OF 
SSF TO FOOD 
SECURITY AND 
NUTRITION
ERADICATE 
POVERTY AND 
IMPROVE 
SOCIO-ECONOMIC 
DEVELOPMENT
PROVIDE
GUIDANCE OF 
POLICIES, STRATEGIES 
AND LEGAL 
FRAMEWORKS
FOR SSF
SUSTAINABLE 
UTILIZATION, 
MANAGEMENT AND 
CONSERVATION
OF FISHERIES
PROMOTE THE 
CONTRIBUTION
OF SSF TO A 
SUSTAINABLE 
FUTURE
ENHANCE
PUBLIC 
AWARENESS OF 
SMALL-SCALE 
FISHERIES
The