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DIA MUNDIAL DEL PESCADOR/WORLD FISHERIES DAY: 21-11-2011
*World Fisheries Day 21-11-2011*
*Food Sovereignty and Fisher People in the World.*
*Economic Globalization and Free Market*
*It is a free movement of capital for making profit by a few at the expense of the vast majority who do not have the basic needs, food, cloth, shelter, education and health. By hook or by crook a few rich people and multi national companies(Mncs) are making profits. There is no question of justice. There is no question of morality. There is no question of protecting environment. Food Sovereignty of a nation and a community is at a risk. Food is controlled by the rich and Mncs. In the name of making profit, the Mncs introduce high yielding hybrid seeds, genetically engineered cultivation, pesticides, etc which make food poisonous. The traditional seeds and organic cultivation cannot compete with the modern cultivation. The industrialized and hi-tech cultivation by the Mncs displaced the vast majority small farmers and naturally nations and communities lost the food sovereignty.*
*Globalization and Fisheries.*
*The same situation has come to the fisheries and the small fisher people. A few industrialized fishers started controlling the situation. The vast majority of small fishers were displaced. Because of overfishing by the big ones, there was a depletion of fish resource all over the world. So the same Mncs went into industrialized aquaculture. Because of the use of pesticides and chemicals the fish too has become poisonous. Good fish is not available for the fisher people and fish consumers.*
*The challenge before the small farmers and fishers?*
*Small farmers , good food for all, fisher people and fish consumers of every nation should depend on their own production. Through organic food production through natural seeds, fish production by small fisher people, traditional aquaculture, riverine and lake fishing, each nation should become self sufficient. This is the campaign we should be involved during the World Fisheries Day. Small fishers and small farmers should work together for land reform and aquatic reform all over the World. The land should be owned by small farmers, water bodies should be owned by small fishers and forest should be owned by the tribals, and indigenous people.
This is the ongoing struggle against Globalization, Mncs all over the World.
The struggle continues till each community and nation becomes self reliant for food*.
Thomas Kocherry, Special Invitee, World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP), 7/48
, Manavalakurichy, Tamilnadu, India-629252, Moble: +91 936 064 5772.
thomasksa@gmail.com . 28-10-2011.
Actualizado (Domingo, 30 de Octubre de 2011 07:30)
How the hunt for seafood is ravaging a tropical islandSurrounded by mangroves, the tropical island of Muisne, off Ecuador's northern coast, sounds like an idyllic place to live. Fishermen repair their nets on its palm-fringed beaches while "ecological taxis" – tricycles with passenger seats – patrol the unpaved streets; no motorised transport exists on the island. Yet Muisne and its Afro-Ecuadorian community of 8,000 are in decline. As the years roll by, there are fewer fish and shellfish to catch, the water becomes more polluted and a growing number of locals desperate to eke out a living migrate to the mainland, or leave Ecuador altogether. Feeding the developed world's seemingly insatiable demand for cheap seafood, shrimp farms have ravaged Muisne's delicate mangrove ecosystem and turned its inhabitants from a poor but close-knit community to one scarred by a disturbing string of social ills. "There is more poverty, more pollution, more alcoholism and more prostitution. This has been a curse for our community," says Lider Gongora, a Muisne resident and the executive director of CCONDEM, the national umbrella group that campaigns for mangrove communities. "It has devastated the local economy. Muisne is poorer as a result of the shrimp farms, and it is the same for all of Ecuador's communities that depend on mangroves." In the 1970s, before shrimp farms arrived, the island had 20,000 hectares of mangroves. Now there are just over 5,000 hectares, nearly half of which is secondary forest, replanted by the community. From Indonesia to Brazil, the story is the same. Yet nowhere has the growth of farms for shrimp, prawns, salmon and other species been as explosive as in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, production in the region grew annually at 21.1 per cent between 1970 and 2008. Over the same period, annual global consumption of farm-reared seafood has risen from 700g to 7.8kg per capita. Meanwhile, more than half of the world's estimated 32 million hectares of mangroves – one of the most biodiverse and fragile ecosystems – has been lost. In Ecuador, fewer than a third of the country's initial 360,000 hectares of mangroves survive. And in Honduras, scene of some of the least regulated shrimp farm expansion, which has led to a string of unresolved murders of fisherman, now has just a quarter of its 250,000 hectares of mangroves still standing. The shrimp farms typically have a complex series of environmental impacts. Initially, sections of the mangrove are cleared to make way for the farms. Once operational, the farms may use large quantities of antibiotics and pesticides that often contaminate the surrounding forests. Farms can also obstruct the flow of rivers and streams, preventing them from mixing with seawater to provide the brackish water that mangroves need to thrive. In doing so, they provide a double whammy by stopping the farms' pollutants from being washed away, increasing the ecological devastation while the shrimp and prawns are reared in a cocktail of chemicals, stale water and bacteria. As the mangroves' delicate ecological balance is disrupted, the effects can reach far beyond these unique, coastal forests. Many of the myriad species of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects found in mangroves spend only one stage of their life there, hatching or breeding before migrating to other biomes, such as the open sea, nearby salt flats or inland forests. The impact for Muisne has been depressingly predictable. Fishermen who wade waist-deep through the mangroves' soupy, opaque waters looking for black scallops have to spend longer and longer to catch less and less. Previously, one fisherman could harvest up to 2,000 scallops a day but now, working longer hours, it is 150 at most. "Sometimes you spend the whole day but don't get anything," complains Mr Gongora. Despite the 2006 election of a leftist president, Rafael Correa, and the subsequent, groundbreaking rewriting of the constitution to include the "rights of nature", shrimp farming in Ecuador has actually increased, following a new law to expand production to fresh stretches of the country's Pacific coast. "Correa has his left-wing, environmentalist discourse but it is a big lie," Mr Gongora says, bitterly. "He justifies the shrimp farming by saying it brings foreign exchange, but what is the cost to Ecuadorians?"
Motivación y liderazgo para el fortalecimiento comunitario
Actualizado (Miércoles, 26 de Octubre de 2011 08:07) Respuesta del CODDEFFAGOLF a "Riesgos de Catastrofes"Con motivo de la Tormenta Tropical 12-E, presentada aproximadamente entre el 12 y 21 de Octubre de 2011 y que generó el Estado de Emergencia en Honduras, El Salvador y Nicaragua el CODDEFFAGOLF estuvo, desde el primer momento, coordinando esfuerzos para intentar solventar la difícil situación de miles de familias de pescadores de la zona Sur de Honduras en los Departamentos de Valle y Choluteca. Dichas acciones se enmarcan en la respuesta a los “riesgos de catástrofes” Viernes 14 de octubre El viernes 14 de octubre (al igual que durante toda la emergencia por la mañana) se reunió el equipo técnico y administrativo de CODDEFAGOLF con el objetivo de evaluar la situación provocada por el fenómeno natural “Tormenta Tropical # 12-E”. Posteriormente, una parte del equipo técnico se reunió con el Comité de emergencia Local (CODEL), de la Comunidad de Cedeño para obtener información actualizada utilizando los formatos autorizados por la Comisión Permanente de Contingencias (COPECO) conocidos como, “Edán 72 horas”. El encuentro con el CODEL fue aprovechado para realizar una gira en la que se visitó a dos de las comunidades afectadas por las lluvias: “La Calleja y Familias Unidas” en el municipio de Marcovia. El segundo grupo se reunió con el representante de la UMA (Unidad del Medio Ambiente) de Marcovia, Rony Umanzor, con el fin de conseguir un diagnóstico de la situación real del municipio de Marcovia desde la perspectiva municipal. Esa valoración permitió conseguir el acta de declaratoria de emergencia municipal. Una vez confirmada la emergencia se complementó la información con los programas internacionales del tiempo y se resolvió buscar la ayuda de la cooperación internacional mediante correos electrónicos a representantes de instituciones amigas de CODDEFFAGOLF. Y para una respuesta inmediata se inició la búsqueda de ayuda entre familiares y amigos e inclusive por las redes sociales A lo largo de toda la jornada desde el viernes las familias de pescadores y representantes de las seccionales a nivel de comunidades atendidas por la organización, llamaron vía telefónica de manera constante y angustiosa al CODDEFFAGOLF. Demandaban ayuda para enfrentarse a la difícil situación que estaban viviendo, pues las condiciones climatológicas no permitían desarrollar su actividad diaria, única generadora de ingresos para su subsistencia. Sábado 15 de octubre Ante la imposibilidad de conseguir fondos de manera inmediata, los principales miembros de la Junta Directiva de CODDEFFAGOLF deciden aportar de sus propios fondos de ahorro, 30,140.00 lempiras para la compra de 100 raciones de alimentos. (Lps.19.00 = $ 1.00). Inicialmente cada ración valorada en 300 lempiras incluía leche de 200 gr., latas de sardinas, avena, café, sopa instantánea, azúcar, sal, harina de maíz, manteca, velas y fósforos. Posteriormente y para abarcar más personas las raciones se valoraron en Lps. 200.00 por ración Cuatro pescadores de la comunidad de San José de las Conchas, se arriesgaron a salir en lancha hasta San Lorenzo con el objetivo de conseguir comida para abastecer a su comunidad (incomunicada desde el jueves). Los pescadores recibieron un apoyo de 30 raciones de alimentos. Actualizado (Sábado, 22 de Octubre de 2011 20:03)
Proyecto Seguridad Alimentaria y bienestar nutricional en 10 comunidades de El Corpus, Choluteca.El “Proyecto Soberanía Alimentaria y Bienestar Nutricional en 10 Comunidades de El Corpus, Choluteca”, que consta de los componentes de Agricultura Orgánica, Formación Pecuaria y Salud, higiene y nutrición es ejecutado por el CODDEFFAGOLF, co ejecutado por Amigos de la Tierra, España y financiado por la Agencia de Cooperación Española, el 29 de septiembre del 2011 en un alegre, ameno e instructivo evento, clausuró el tercer componente mencionado. Con el propósito de mejorar y fortalecer conocimientos sobre salud, higiene y nutrición balanceada de las familias; se formaron 39 promotoras (un aproximado de 4 por comunidad), dichas promotoras aprendieron a preparar dietas balanceadas tomando como base los grupos básicos de nutrientes que son: carbohidratos, grasas, proteínas, micronutrientes y vitaminas; tomando como prioridad niños menores de 5 años utilizando los productos de los huertos familiares y otros recursos locales de la zona. El proceso se llevó a cabo con dos equipos de cinco comunidades cada uno, en los cuales se hicieron grupos de trabajo para tratar temas como: saber que nutrientes contiene cada tipo de alimento; las restricciones de consumo para evitar problemas de salud a corto y/o largo plazo; como alimentar los niños en pre y pos natalidad y alimentación complementaria. También se realizaron recetas de comidas típicas locales y su preparación; se elaboró una de estas recetas para mostrar las prácticas de higiene en la cocina y la restricción de uso de algunos productos ya que de esto depende en gran parte nuestra salud. Actualizado (Sábado, 22 de Octubre de 2011 20:19)
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