by Masifundise | Mar 14, 2024 | Featured News, Food Sovereignty, Human Rights, Media Statements, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
For immediate release 6 March 2024 Masifundise Development Trust is an organization that has been involved in the small-scale fisheries (SFF) sector, working with SSF communities for over 20 years. Over the years, Masifundise has undertaken advocacy efforts and...
by Masifundise | Feb 28, 2024 | climate change, Featured News, Food Sovereignty, Human Rights, Inland Fisheries, Inland fishing policy, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
On 22 February, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment’s (DFFE) national inland fisheries hosted a roundtable in Jozini, KwaZulu-Natal. The meeting provided a platform for inland small-scale fishers in the area to discuss issues around access to the...
by Masifundise | Feb 28, 2024 | Customary Rights, Featured News, Food Sovereignty, Human Rights, Latest News, MPAs, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
Small-scale fishers from the Dwesa-Cwebe communities in the Eastern Cape have faced ongoing violations to their right to conduct livelihood activities. Thobile Mpunzi, together with Mandilakhe Ndabeni and Vuyisani Ndlumdini are local fishers from Mpume village who...
by Masifundise | Feb 28, 2024 | climate change, Featured News, Food Sovereignty, Human Rights, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
Toward the end of January 2024, raging fires spread through areas in the Overstrand in the Western Cape. Fishing communities that have been affected by these fires include Kleinmond, Pearly Beach, Hermanus and Buffeljagsbaai. The Buffeljags fire started on 29 January...
by Masifundise | Feb 28, 2024 | climate change, Customary Rights, Events, extractives, Featured News, Food Sovereignty, Human Rights, Inland Fisheries, Latest News, Media Statements, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook, WFFP
Earlier this month the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, released his latest report titled, Fisheries and the right to food in the context of climate change and will present it at the 55th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) at...
by Masifundise | Feb 28, 2024 | Featured News, Food Sovereignty, Human Rights, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
Last November, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment (DFFE) awarded small-scale fishing (SSF) cooperatives in the Western Cape rights as the fishing season began, completing SSF rights allocation across all coastal provinces. However, the same...
