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An image from the animation focusing why small-scale fisheries matter

IIED animation: it’s time for policy to catch on to small-scale fishing

News, 15 February 2019

Small-scale fishers in Vietnam depend heavily on coastal resources ((Photo: Hội An, Vietnam by Thijs Degenkamp on Unsplash)

Webinar: So far yet so close – why the high seas matter to vulnerable coastal communities

Event on 18 March 2018

Fishing in Kenya's Lake Naivasha provides income for local people, but fish stocks have declined sharply due to over-fishing and the diversion of water for agriculture (Photo: Cheryl Q, Creative Commons via Flicker)

Green lessons for the blue economy

Insight, 11 December 2018

An image from the fiscal tools animation, that was screened at the Blue Economy Conference in Nairobi (Image: IIED/Nice and Serious)

IIED animation: using fiscal policy tools to create a sustainable future for ocean and people

News, 28 November 2018

These cars in downtown Lanzhou are part of efforts to reduce CO2 emissions in China. But electric cars require nearly 10kg of cobalt per vehicle, which may encourage increased deep-sea mining (Photo: Tim Zachernuk, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Mining in the deep-sea bed: are we ready?

Insight, 12 November 2018

Men fishing on the beach in Unawatuna, Sri Lanka

Webinar: No hidden catch: mainstreaming small-scale fisheries in national accounts

Event on 20 November 2018

Professor Rashid Sumaila addresses interested marine specialists from research institutes, the private sector and international organisations at Fish Night 5 (Photo: Zaiza Khan/IIED)

Fish Night 5: How subsidies are not always beneficial equally to fish and people

Event on 17 October 2018

A shoal of muguraan circle above a bait net

First steps towards a global agreement

Insight, 21 September 2018

A family fishes in Chandpur, Bangladesh

New rules for high seas must include poorest countries’ needs

Insight, 05 September 2018

Plastic debris litters the beach on Clipperton Island, a tiny uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean (Photo: Clifton Beard, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Transitioning towards a plastic free world

Insight, 30 May 2018

A deep-sea fishing trawler

Helping the LDCs negotiate the high seas

Active Project

Brazil ambassador Carlos Sobral Duarte addresses a meeting to define the key elements of a draft treaty to govern the high seas (Photo: IISD/ENB | Franz Dejon)

Moving a step closer to protecting the high seas

Insight, 02 August 2017

A fishing boat and cruise liner cross paths outside Zakynthos Harbour (Photo: Robert Wallace, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

The blue economy and maritime security in Africa: why now?

Insight, 13 October 2016

Protecting the world's oceans: three key tasks

News, 08 June 2016

An image of an artisanal fisher in Kiribati casting his net into the water; 90 per cent of all fishers are small-scale or artisanal (Photo: Quentin Hanich/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Towards an inclusive blue economy

Insight, 01 June 2016

A fish market in Vĩnh Trường, Vietnam. More than 300 million people are directly or indirectly employed by the fisheries sector, and must be addressed by the oceans SDG (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

A sustainable ocean by 2030

Insight, 14 September 2015

Essam Yassin Mohammed argues that Goal 14 cannot be seen in isolation from the other Sustainable Development Goals (Image: IIED)

Understanding the SDGs: the importance of Goal 14

News, 07 September 2015

A boat near Fiji. Tourism and fishing are important industries for the Pacific nation of Fiji. Both of these economically important sectors depend on effective marine conservation (Photo: Sam Gao, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Ocean of bliss: rewriting the narrative

Insight, 08 June 2015

Madagascan fishermen set out for a day's fishing in traditional dugout canoes. Madagascar is implementing community-based management for some of its marine resources (Photo: Andreas Hafenscher, Creative Commons via Flickr)

World Oceans Day event will examine the potential of oceans and coasts

News, 21 May 2015

Blue, rather than green, is the dominant colour of planet earth (Photo: Google licence)

Why do I see blue when everyone else sees green?

Insight, 01 October 2014

Fishing boats return to a beach on the Bay of Bengal.

New Commission for oceans in crisis

Insight, 14 February 2013

An artisanal fisherman in rural Bangladesh

Buy me an ocean: why we need payments for coastal and marine environments

Insight, 07 June 2012

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)