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Costa Rica: A Champion of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines

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This chapter uses a case study approach and a transdisciplinary perspective to shed light on Costa Rica’s implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines), and assess their potential to make Costa Rican small-scale fisheries ecologically and socially sustainable. The chapter identifies how the government, together with fishers’ organizations, is aligning its conservation and participative management policies to the provisions of the SSF Guidelines. It also discusses how a small-scale fishery cooperative’s participative management initiatives have led to the establishment of an institutional arrangement which has the potential to successfully promote the implementation of the SSF Guidelines not only in Costa Rica but also in the Central American region as a whole. Involving small-scale fishers in dialogue and design of their own sustainable future is key to how Costa Rica has become a champion of the SSF Guidelines.

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    Gabriela Sabau

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  2. Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

    Ratana Chuenpagdee

  3. Development and Knowledge Sociology Working Group, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research – ZMT, Bremen, Germany

    María José Barragán-Paladines

  4. Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy

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Sabau, G. (2017). Costa Rica: A Champion of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines. In: Jentoft, S., Chuenpagdee, R., Barragán-Paladines, M., Franz, N. (eds) The Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines. MARE Publication Series, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55074-9_17

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