Chapter 7
Value Chain, Post Harvest
& Trade
Supplemental Materials
Handouts
7.a Keywords & Definitions
7.c Mapping Brainstorm
Resources
SSF Guidelines: Value chain, post-harvest and trade
This animated video by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations gives insights into all the activities from catch to plate: making fishing gear, catching fish, sorting, cleaning and processing fish, transporting, marketing, selling, buying, and eating fish (and seafood). The SSF Guidelines call for all parts of the value chain to be recognized and for the people working in the value chains to be involved in making decisions concerning them.
The role of aquatic foods in sustainable healthy diets
UN Nutrition presents a discussion paper by authors Molly Ahern, Shakuntala Thilsted, and Stineke Oenema on the sustainable supply of aquatic foods to deliver sustainable healthy diets and meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The paper describes food waste and loss along the value chain and advocates for policies and investments that mitigate against it.
Value Chain Improvements in SSF: A Case Study from West Africa
Kristine Beran presents a study that examines how post-harvest innovations
might address challenges SSF face along the value chain and how they might benefit from these changes. Beran also focuses on factors that influence the adoption of innovations. She presents two case studies in West Africa: The Gambia and Ghana, during the period between 2015-2018.
Labour, Identity and Wellbeing in Bangladesh’s Dried Fish Value Chains
Authors Ben Belton, Mostafa A. R. Hossain, and Shakuntala Thilsted explore the material conditions faced by SSF people engaged in drying fish in Bangladesh and how social relations meditate their experiences and circumstances along the value chain, interweaving decent work and social development into Chapter 7.
The SSF Hub: Value chains & post harvest
What are ways to strengthen the value chain of your fishery and earn more from harvests? Learn more about value chains, post-harvest, and trade by exploring the resources in the SSF Hub's digital library.
Fishful Future: Food from the Sea
Fishful Future aims to support regional fishing communities and working waterfronts by moving towards zero waste in the seafood industry. To accomplish this, Fishful Future fosters culinary and non-culinary solutions to secondary cuts and seafood by-products that are currently undervalued or discarded.
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Aileen Carr. 2015. Food Justice: Definitions Compilation. hungercenter.org. https://www.hungercenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Food-Justice-Defs-compilation.pdf
Ann Gibbons. 2010. The World’s First Fish Supper. In: Science. Cited 14 January 2023. https://www.science.org/content/article/worlds-first-fish-supper
Belton, B. & Thilsted, S.H. 2014. Fisheries in transition: Food and nutrition security implications for the global South. Global Food Security, 3(1): 59–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2013.10.001
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Beran, K. 2018. Value Chain Improvements In Small-Scale Fisheries: Case Studies From West Africa. Open Access Dissertations. Paper 785. Cited 14 January 2023. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/oa_diss/785.
De Silva, A. 2011. Value chain of fish and fishery products: origin, functions and application in developed and developing country markets. Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Evan Tarver. 2022. Value Chain vs. Supply Chain: What’s the Difference? In: Investopedia. Cited 14 January 2023. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/043015/what-difference-between-value-chain-and-supply-chain.asp
FAO and WHO. 2019. Sustainable healthy diets – Guiding principles. Rome.
FAO. 2021. Evaluation of the project “Enhancing the contribution of small-scale fisheries to food security and sustainable livelihoods through better policies, strategies and initiatives". Project Evaluation Series, 01/2021. Rome.
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Molly Ahern, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, & Stineke Oenema. 2021. The role of aquatic foods in sustainable healthy diets. Discussion Paper. Rome, UN Nutrition. https://www.unnutrition.org/wp-content/uploads/FINAL-UN-Nutrition-Aquatic-foods-Paper_EN_.pdf
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Walker, T. 2021. What is a value chain? Definitions and characteristics. In: Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Cited 14 January 2023. https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/education/graduate-study/pgcerts/value-chain-defs
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