IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
IN FISHERY PRODUCTS ON FOOD SECURITY

 A Study Conducted Jointly by the
 Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations
 And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Norway
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This study will analyse the growing international trade in fishery products. International trade in fishery products does not have any standardized pattern. It is marked by diversity. Assessing the impact of international fish trade implies studying a variety of identifiable 'representative' cases from the overall global context. The focus of the study is on the impact that trade has on people's food security - the physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times. The case studies will examine the positive and negative impacts that international trade has on fish availability and accessibility; employment and income generation; the fish stocks and the potential for hard foreign currency earnings. All these aspects have a direct or indirect bearing on food security. The people whom these studies will focus on include fish producers, fish workers and fish consumers in fish exporting and importing countries. The study hopes to contribute to our understanding of the modus operandi of international fish trade in order to create the right circumstances, institutions and mechanisms, to facilitate ' food security and development-enhancing' trade
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