Lega Pesca for the sustainable development

of fisheries and aquaculture

in the DCs and LDCs

2013

The work of man (2001) conceived by Roberto Lazzarini and made by the Cooperativa Ceramica di Imola

Contents The Legacoop System About Legacoop

Principles and Values

National Associations

National Bodies

Focus on Lega Pesca Fisheries and Aquaculture Sectoral specialization

The expertise on focus areas

International Cooperation with the NGO Halieus Collaboration Agreements

An answer to Government’s needs

International Projects

EU Projects

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About Legacoop

The oldest Italian cooperative organization Founded in 1886, Legacoop is the oldest Italian coop-

erative organization. It promotes the development of

cooperation and mutuality, the economic and solidarity

relations of its member cooperatives and encourages

the spread of cooperative principles and values.

A contribution to the growth More than 15,000 cooperatives belonging to Legacoop

are present in all Italian regions and productive sectors.

They are leader companies in sectors such as retailing,

construction, agro-food, services and manufacturing.

Member cooperatives have also created important com-

panies in the insurance, finance and credit sectors.

Legacoop carries out a role of representation, assis-

tance and protection in the cooperative movement. It

establishes and manages relations with the govern-

ment and parliamentary commissions, and the political, economic and social stake-

holders. Legacoop also coordinates international relations for the member cooperatives,

with a special attention to European Union institutions, and supports the cooperative

industrial relations in the different sectors.

The associative structure of Legacoop is divided into autonomous Sector Associations,

which organize their cooperatives depending on their sector of activity, and Regional and

Provincial Legacoops, which are responsible at the territorial level.

Legacoop is member of the International Cooperative Alliance and of Cooperatives Europe,

the largest European cooperative representative body set up in November 2006 in Man-

chester.

Legacoop pursues the objectives of the “Blue-Print for

a co-operative decade” approved by the General As-

sembly of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA).

Built on the resilience demonstrated by the coopera-

tive model since the great financial collapse, the plan

is for the cooperative form of business by 2020 to

become the acknowledged leader in economic, social

and environmental sustainability, the model preferred

by people, the fastest growing form of enterprise. www.legacoop.it

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Principles and Values

Companies of people “One person, one vote”. Almost 8 million members are also “owners”. Each with equal

rights and equal opportunities Participation, social cohesion and dealing with the contra-

dictions between solidarity and business are all problems common to a modern com-

pany. They have always been for the cooperatives their “raison d’être”.

New Enterprises In a cooperative enterprise the profit remain inside the cooperative itself and is the

means to ensure its economic solidity– a tool to achieve its “social” aims: employment,

safeguarding of health and environment, participation, and the boosting of new coopera-

tive activities. The mutualistic Fund for the promotion of new cooperatives, managed by a

Legacoop controlled body, is Coopfond.

Employment and human resources Over 400,000 people work within the “Legacoop system”. Setting up enterprises for

Legacoop doesn’t only mean looking for new opportunities in the market, but providing a

new opportunity for organized and associated work (in the construction, engineering,

planning, design and manufacturing, agro-food and fisheries cooperatives, social and

cultural services, in tourism, in catering, transport and retailing, etc. ).

Community assistance Cooperation can contribute to the community development by offering services to the

community, both by reducing costs and by providing a quality service. It’s a new and

innovative way to provide a “public”, not state, service to the community (starting from

consultancy, aid for families with difficult social situations; drug addictions; refuges and

refuge communities; prevention, nursery schools).

Environment and health Campaigns were initiated to reduce the pesticide content in agricultural production, to

promote the sale of genuinely produced meat, to support the consumption of fruit and

vegetables cultivated as organically as possible, to support the use of low-phosphate

detergents, to persuade companies to reduce the amount of packaging and use environ-

mentally-friendly materials.

Human resources Training, both technical and cultural of the members, the workers in the cooperative

companies and the management is an increasingly important commitment, carried out

also on the basis of an Agreement signed with the Ministry of Education.

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National Association of Worker and

Production Cooperatives

It represents cooperatives in the manufacturing,

construction, engineering and designing sectors. In

industrial relations, it represents its members in

renewing national collective worker contracts in the

building and manufacturing/metal mechanic sectors.

ANCPL is also one of the founding associations of

CECOP (European Confederation of Workers’

Cooperatives, Social Cooperatives and Participative

Enterprises) with its head office in Brussels.

www.ancpl.legacoop.it

National Association of Consumer

Cooperatives

Ancc/Coop was set up in 1957 as an association of

companies (Coop is leader among Italian retailing

groups) and at the same time, as a consumer

organization. It has small, medium and large

cooperative members for a total of 900 coops, with 9

large ones. Seven of these 9 largest cooperatives set

up the Società Sviluppo Discount under the logo DICO,

that manages 186 stores in Italy. www.e-coop.it

National Association Of Housing Cooperatives

Founded in 1961 it organizes 3.000 cooperatives

nationwide for approx. 300,000 houses with a

membership of 400,000 people. The Housing

Cooperatives promote building program (new

constructions or urban recovery) allowing their

members access to house in ownership or rental.

www.legacoopabitanti.coop

National Association of Retailer Cooperatives

Retailer cooperatives belonging to ANCD associate the

Conad cooperatives amounting to about 4,000 retailers,

of which more than 3,000 manage modern sales outlets

under the logos of “Conad” (supermarkets and

uperstores), “Margherita” (local shops) and “E. Leclerc

Conad” (hypermarkets – a joint venture with the

French group E.Leclerc). Ancd, along with Conad,

belongs to UGAL, the European organization for retailer

cooperatives and purchasing groups with its head office

in Brussels.

www.ancd.it

National Associations

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Nationa Association of Agri-Food Cooperatives

for Rural Development

It represents cooperatives operanting in different

agri-food sectors-production, processing,

distribution, supplying services and technical

support for enterprises. It promotes partnerships

and mergers to achieve the appropriate economies

of scale, also with EU agricultural cooperatives,

International strategies and marketing strategies

aimed at promoting product quality and origin.

www.legacoopagroalimentare.coop

National Association of Service Cooperatives

It organizes service companies in established sectors,

such as transportation and goods freighting, logistics,

private security services, community and private

catering, hygiene and environmental maintenance.

More recently developing areas are Facility

Management, TPL – local public transport, doctors’

cooperatives, Fine Arts and Heritage services and

other professional and innovative services.

www.legacoopservizi.coop

National Association of Social Cooperatives

Aimed at integrating the disadvantaged people into the

work force within territorial development and within

institutional and public activitites, the main activities

concern: home help, hygiene, education and

rehabilitation, refuge centres, social family housing,

nursery schools, information counters and

management of projects for marginalized people.

www.legacoopsociali.it

National Sector of Tourism Cooperatives

Inspired by the principle of a responsible tourism, it

operates in travel agencies, hotel and tour operator

cooperatives, cooperatives for beaches services,

farmstay companies, companies offering fishing

tourism, cooperatives involved in protecting and

enhancing the natural and cultural heritage,

reception centres.

www.legacoopturismo.it

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Mutualistic National Fund

It manages the institutional and mutual fund set up

under Law 59/92 – based on the setting aside of 3% of

annual profits of all cooperatives belonging to Legacoop

and the remainder from company liquidations.

Coopfond makes use of these resources to strengthen

and promote the cooperative system at a national level.

These actions are aimed at: extending the cooperative

presence into the Southern regions and into areas

of low cooperative presence; supporting the setting up

of new cooperative enterprises in the market segment of

new professions and innovative production techniques

(working with local companies, universities and research

centres). supporting the setting up of new cooperative

enterprises for professions where it is prohibited by law

to practice as a company, and for market segments with

high potential (eg. utilities).

www.coopfond.it

Association of Journalist , Publishing and

Communication Cooperatives

Mediacoop has 370 member companies nationwide

involved in publishing (production and sales in

bookshops), graphics, printing and publicity, radio/

television broadcasting and services, in-house

newsletters, cinematography and video production.

These are cooperatives, non-profit societies and

associations of varied cultural and political

backgrounds.

www.mediacooponline.it

National Association of Fishing Cooperatives

Lega Pesca is an historical association in the

fishing sector well-established and in constant growth,

which includes along with fishing and aquaculture

cooperatives, many Producer Organizations in

production and retailing, services and assistance

and research and training cooperatives. (see Focus

On)

www.legapesca.coop

mediacoop

National Associations

National Bodies

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Financial Cooperative Consortium for

Development

CCFS with more than 1500 cooperatives and their

associates all over Italy, has deposits for over 650

million euros and provides financial support for an

average 750 million to its members. It supplies a broad

range of financial services to optimize the cash-flow

and the current assets management; to back

development and investment projects; to support the

short-term financing; to support the cooperatives in

joint-ventures with public and private partnership

(project financing, etc.), in the economic and financial

planning of new projects, in the financial round-about

and in all the other financial operations that need

qualified assistance.

www.ccfs.it

Unipol Group

The Unipol Group is today the second-largest insurance

group operating in Italy and the largest operating in

non-life business, with proforma direct premiums of

€12.2bn on 30 September 2012.

It offers the full range of insurance and financial

products and is particularly active in the supplementary

pension and health sectors. www.unipol.it

Cooptechnical Consortium

It is a national consortium dedicated to innovation,

environment and energy. It operates as center of

purchasing group for its members (including Coop. Ugf

Unipol insurance, CCC-Acam, Inres, etc.), selecting

suppliers and service providers. It also implements

innovative projects on behalf of Legacoop. Among the

services provided to its members: there are contracts

for optimizing the services of fixed and mobile

telephony, ICT, energy and fuel, postal services, car

rental, etc.

National Institute of Professional Training

Inforcoop associates Legacoop institutions and

training agencies operating in different Italian regions,

some major research and advisory agenzie and

Workopp SpA - Employment agency. Inforcoop

promotes initiatives and projects to support the

development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

www.inforcoop.it

National Bodies

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Sectoral Specialization

Lega Pesca represents the social and economic inter-

ests of its members in all fishery business areas. It

counts 477 member organizations - 430 cooperatives,

17 recognised producer organizations (including inland

water production), and 25 partnerships and corporate

enterprises. They are widespread throughout all coastal

regions and in all levels of the supply chain - produc-

tion, processing, commercialisation, services, research

and training. They employ about 5,000 workers and

number more than 18,800 members, for an aggregate

turnover of approximately 840 million euros in 2011.

Lega Pesca is involved in promoting mutual societies and cooperative enterprises

as a means to modernize and develop sustainable fisheries' activities. The Asso-

ciation aims at overcoming the economic marginality that has marked the sector

over the past decades, in order to promote its full integration into the food supply

chain, efficiently and effectively enhancing environmental protection policies.

The Association’s policies are aimed at developing innovative activities with low

environmental impact, selective and rational fishing catches, responsible and sus-

tainable fishing, the promotion of aquaculture (marine and land), the promotion of

fishing and fishery tourism and planning management. These policies are devel-

oped in a framework of market liberalization, globalization and standardization

and enhancement of food distributive, quality and safety systems. Members are

offered assistance in planning, technical, financial, legal, administrative, and fiscal

areas .

The Association strongly promoted the 3 national consortiums – UNIMAR

(fisheries' scientific research), FIDIPESCA ITALIA (credit) and UNIPROM (fishery

products promotion). Lega Pesca belongs to ICA (International Cooperative Alli-

ance), COPA/COGECA (European Committee for Professional Organizations and

Agricultural and Fishing Cooperatives), EUROPÊCHE (E.U. Association of National

Organizations of Fishery Enterprises) and MEDISAMAK (Trans-Mediterranean Asso-

ciation of Professional Fishing Organizations).

Lega Pesca is a member of the Executive Committee of the Regional Advisory

Council for the Mediterranean (RAC MED- CCR MED), a consultative body responsi-

ble for drawing up recommendations and suggestions on fisheries' management

to the European Commission and the EU Member States .

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Access to credit

Confidifin is a National Consortium for the collettive

guarantee of credit aimed at facilitating credit transactions,

offering members direct guarantees, sureties and

endorsments.

Professional Training

For...mare is a Professional Training Centre recognized by the

Ministry of Transport and Navigation as a centre of shown

competence in the fisheries and sea-farming sector, with

regard to the labour universe, new challanges and new task

approaches.

Socio-economic Studies and Research

The Study Centre realises researches regarding the labour

market, the social-economic impact of productive

investments, planning, management and statistical data.

The expertise on focus areas

International Cooperation

The Halieus Ngo, promoted by Lega Pesca, is the first Ngo in

Italy operating in the fishery sector. It aims at enhancing

responsible small-scale fishery and acquaculture activities, as

well as improving the natural resources management toward

the sustainable development of local communities.

www.halieus.it

Applied Scientific Research

Consorzio Mediterraneo is a research body founded in 1996,

currently with 15 research cooperatives members nationwide.

It is registered in the National Research Registry Office and is

accredited by the Ministry of Agricultural Policies.

Aquaculture

The Association of Mediterranean Aquaculturists, with its 72

member enterprises, aimes at promoting sustainable

aquaculture activity and products (trademark policies, quality

labels, biological certification).

Service and Assistance

Ecoittica Service Ltd provides technical assistance for funding

applications and commercial, economic, legal and fiscal

consultancy services to enterprises and public authorities.

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International Activity

Fisheries and aquaculture are sectors of first relevance on, among others, the re-

source management, food security, and youth and women empowerment. These

issues emerge as a global challenges that calls for global responses.

For this reason Lega Pesca is committed at the international level to support the

values of the artisanal fishery and aquaculture and of the cooperative approach as

turning elements of a sustainable development from the economic, social and

environmental perspective.

Lega Pesca already works in strict connection with partner organizations from all

over the world in coordination with the International Cooperation Office of

Legacoop. Lega Pesca is Member of EUROPÊCHE, European association of fishery

cooperatives, and of the COGECA, the network of EU cooperatives. It is an active

member of the ICFO International Cooperative Fisheries Organizations (ICFO), fish-

ery sector of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA). Important synergies have

been developed with, among others, the FAO, the UNIDO ITPO, and several organi-

zations working on international cooperation (NGOs, Universities, local Autorithies,

etc.) Nine Memorandum of understandings have been drawn up both in the Medi-

terranean than in the Caribbean area.

On the basis of these values and thanks to these partnerships and synergies Lega

Pesca has undertaken several projects for supporting sustainable fishery and

aquaculture worldwide. In realizing those projects Lega Pesca valorizes the high

level of expertise of its specialized structures and of its member cooperatives, aim-

ing also at boosting an actual alliance and dialogues between fishery sector coop-

eratives from different countries.

Lega Pesca

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Ngo Halieus

The international cooperation Halieus is the first Italian Non-Governmental Organisation operating in the fishing

sector set up to promote the economic, social and cultural development of local

communities in developing countries. Its projects are aimed at enhancing small-

scale fishery and aquaculture activities, as well as sustainable management of

the natural resources. They include:

studying and carrying out cooperation projects and programs in the sectors of

aquaculture, fisheries, environment, agriculture, and the relative infrastruc-

tures, in coordination with national and local authorities;

professional training within the sectors mentioned above, mainly aimed at

young people, women, disadvantaged people, communities whose livelihood

depends on primary activities, people who need to learn new skills due to exclu-

sion from previous productive processes or due to the fact that they lack skills,

abilities or a profession;

carrying out applied scientific and technological researches aimed at transfer-

ring suitable technologies to developing countries;

providing qualified technical assistance, by mobilizing specialised technicians

both in Italy and abroad;

promotion of high level professional training and on-the-job training;

promotion of production techniques, as well as the use of sustainable re-

sources, adequate to local culture and traditions;

carrying out activities which lead to self-management, individually and at a

community level;

encouraging and establishing relations of collaboration and networking with

other Italian and foreign associations, cooperatives, trade unions, belonging to

professional, technical, economic and social sectors to achieve common objec-

tives.

Researchers and collaborators of Lega Pesca/Halieus participate in workshops

and international organizations on specific themes - such as the management of

fishery resources (ICCAT-GFCM workshops; IWC, Adriamed, FAO, EU), aquaculture,

shared stocks, etc…The participation of experts belonging to the association in

international meetings (Malta, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Argentina, Australia, Indo-

nesia, Maldive Islands etc.) has contributed to the creation of synergies, exchanges

of good practices and concrete relations of collaboration with researchers of the

sector in several countries.

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Collaboration Agreements

ALBANIA Memorandum of Understanding

with the Albanian Fishermen’s

Association - 30 May 1998

TUNISIA Memorandum of Understanding

with U.T.A.P. (Tunisian Union for

Agriculture and Fishing) - 10 June 2000

ALGERIA Memorandum of Understanding

with the Ministry of Fisheries 2 March 2001

CUBA Memorandum of Understanding

with the Cuban Government

9 October 2001

MOROCCO Memorandum of Understanding with the Federation of Chambers

representing the Fishing Sector - 24 October 2001

HAITI Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture 17 April 2002

IVORY COAST Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture 28 April 2010

LEBANON Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture

17 April 2011

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture

14 September 2011

Lega Pesca

Beirut - Signature of the MoU with the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture

Santo Domingo - Signature of the MoU with the Dominican Ministry of

Agriculture

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An Answer to Governments’ needs

The MoU with Ivory Coast Legacoop has signed several international

agreements with relevant stakeholders from

developing countries, including the Memoran-

dum of Understanding between Legacoop,

Lega Pesca and the Government of Ivory

Coast (Ministry of Planning and Development,

2010).

The MoU was strongly requested by the Ivory

Coast government to strengthen the local

cooperative movement in the agricultural and fishery sector. Agriculture and fisher-

ies are two sectors on which the Ivory Coast relies for restarting the process of local

development, and the cooperative movement has been identified as a potential

driver of this process.

Cooperatives are increasingly being used as tools to reduce exclusion and alleviate

poverty in Africa, but this process requires an effective support in order to have an

impact on development at the national level. The cooperative movements could

strongly contribute to improving the governance, the efficiency and the perform-

ance of primary cooperatives and of the other social economy organizations.

The Ivory Coast Government has stressed the need for sustaining the cooperatives

in their capacity to access markets, access credit, corporate management, compli-

ancy to legislation and most of all to give to their members a voice and representa-

tion in the social development in the country, as well as in the organization of the

relative economic sector (especially in agriculture and fishery).

In 2012, UN International Year of Cooperatives, the special role plaid by the coop-

erative in the socioeconomic development has been widely recognized by the inter-

national community that has found in the “Blue-Print for a co-operative decade” a

solid basis for a sustainable and inclusive development.

Up to now the MoU hadn’t the possibility to be implemented into concrete project

initiatives due to the recent political troubles in Ivory Coast. Considering the new

political framework of the country, the Ivorian Embassy in Rome has recently reaf-

firmed the country's interest in collaborating with our organization and has encour-

aged the renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding for the concretization of a

process of collaboration, technical assistance and know-how transfer.

Fisheries and Aquaculture

Rome - Signature of the MoU with the Ivory Coast Ministry of Agriculture

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FITOAMBIENT - Phytodepuration and environmental

education in a Lebanese Bio-region (2011-2013)

Co-financed by Friuli Venezia Giulia Region

The project realized a phytodepuration plant (constructed wetland system) for

reducing the environmental impact of the trout farms on the Orontes river in

the Hermel Province. The action has been sided by a technical on-the-job

training for local experts.

MADAGASCAR PROJECT (2011-2012)

Co-financed by the Province of Rome The Project is in the rural village of Djangoa, Ambanja district in the Diana

region, and aims to support the development of the region through women's

empowerment, improvement in local hygienic conditions, improvement in

children's nutrition at the Mamiko school and development of new economic

activities - International Cooperation Funds.

Italian Partners: ACD – Agency for Decentralized Cooperation of

Gorizia, Province of Gorizia, CETA- Centre for Theoretical and Applied Ecology,

Municipality of Udine, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs- UTL Lebanon, CETA -

Centro di Ecologia Teorica ed Applicata, University of Udine

Lebanon Partners: Union of municipalities of Hermel, Cultural

Association Hermel

International Projects

Italian Partners: Lega Pesca/Halieus, Seniores Italiam Tetezena Onlus

Lebanon Partners: Ve.ki.Fa Association

Lega Pesca

MADE—Marine Aquaculture Development in Egypt

(2012-2013)

Italian-Egyptian Debt for Development

Swap Programme The project aims at developing the Marine aquaculture in the Mediterranean

sea in Egypt. Lega Pesca is collaborating to the implementation of the project

as subcontractor for providing technical assistance on: 1) development of an

economic analysis on the potentiality of the sector and elaboration of

Business models and Business Plans for the private investment in marine

aquacultures and hatcheries; 2) technical assistance for the installation of the

marine cages and transfer of the relative know-how on the marine cage

technologies; 3) environmental impact assessment; 4) realization of a

National Conference and Road Map on marine aquaculture.

Implementing Agency: General Authority for Fishery Resources

Development (GAFRD, Egyptian Ministry of Agricolture) Partners: CIHEAM IAM Bari, Federcoopesca

Hatchery in Egypt (Alexandria)

Phytodepuration plant in Hermel

Fishermen in Djangoa

PESCAMED - Cooperation development in the

Mediterranean fishery sector. (2010-2011)

Co-financed by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture Assesment on the labour context, the producer associations, the consumer

organizations, and existing training in the Mediterranean countries.

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I.S.E.C. Improving Seafood Export Conditions (2009

-2011)

EU PRO€INVEST Program The project aimed at strengthening the capacities of Dominican Republic IOs

and promoting the internationalization of aquaculture/fishery SMEs,

expecially providing technical assistance on food safety and SPS measures.

Italian Partners: Lega Pesca, Federcoopesca Fishermen Cooperative

Association, AGCI/Agrital Fishermen Cooperative association, UNICOOP

Fishermen Cooperative Association, Federpesca/Confindustria Fishery

Shipowners' Association, UILA Pesca Trace Unions' Fishermen Organization

Local Partners: Fishery Competent Ministry /Directorate of Croatia,

Albania, Montenegro, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco.

Italian Partners: Chamber of Commerce – Italy/Dominican Republic,

Lega Pesca, Halieus

Local Partners: CODOPESCA Consejo Dominicano de Pesca y

Acuicultura; Industria Nacional Agropesquera (INA), Asociacion Dominicana

“Turkish & Italian fishermen working together in

harmony” (2010-2011)

Co-financed by Europe Aid (CSD II Program) The project aimed at supporting the different actors of the fishery value chain

of the Province of Sinop toward the harmonization of the local sector to the

European Union standars and norms on food safety.

Italian Partners: Lega Pesca/Halieus

Turkish Partners: GÜZELKENT MUNICIPALITY, Güzelkent Fishery

Products Cooperative, Sinop University-Faculty of Fishery Products.-

Association for Public Administrations and Academy (KAYADER), TÜRKELİ

Chamber Of Agriculture of municipalities of Hermel, Abdul Ghani Bleibel,

Cultural Association Hermel

Associate Partners: Sinop Provincial Agriculture Directorate, Türkeli

District Directorate of Agriculture

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International Projects

Pescamed Partners Meeting in Bari

Fishery harbour in Sinop

Aquaculture activities in Bayaguana

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Training of small-scale fishermen of the

Island of Tumbatu, Zanzibar (2006-2007)

Funded by Miche Association Onlus

The training module was a part of a study on the local fishery sector, and

focused on aspects of food safety, marketing and sustainability.

The project was funded and carried out by Lega Pesca (through the NGO

Haliéus) as part of its international policy for supporting small-scale

sustainable fishery.

Training for fisheries and aquaculture in Algeria

(2005-2007)

The training project on fishing in Algeria was carried out by Lega Pesca with

the participation of the Algerian Ministry of Fisheries and the contribution of

the Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the Italian Ministry

of Foreign Affairs and Emilia Romagna Region.

“Strategy plan for the rehabilitation of the

fishery value chain from the effects of the

tsunami in Sri Lanka (2006-2007)

Study commissioned by Legacoop in the framework of a project on country

rehabilitation based on the value chain assessment of the fishery sector in

two specific areas: Ampara and Kalutara. Particular focus on the cooperative

enterprises, women and training.

International Projects

F.A.R.O. Training and upgrading Italo-Chilean

fishery operators (2009-2011)

Funded by the Italian Ministry of Welfare

The project supported the development of lifelong training in SME fisheries

and of the operators in the fishery sector, updating their technological and

organizational skills. This included food safety and food quality, and

promoting innovative activities linked to the fishery sector such as fishing

tourism to increase the number of those working in the sector.

Italian Partners: Inforcoop (national institute for training in

cooperatives), Lega Pesca/Halieus and Consorzio Mediterraneo

Local Partners: Insieme Foundation, International Training Center

"Michelangelo"

Lega Pesca

Partners Meeting in Santiago de Chile

Fishery market in Ampara

Training class in Tumbatu

Fishing activities in the Mediterranean Sea

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Women in the Net Telematic network to optimise exchanges amongst

women (and not only) belonging to the fishing sector as

a tool to facilitate synergies at all levels - regional,

national and especially trans-national.

SEREA Seaside Reorientation Activities

As “innovative measure” in the area of the

“management of restructuring”, the project aims at

creating a socio-economic and labour oriented model in

the inshore fishing and shellfishing sector, promoting

sustainable development and good practises (protected

marine reserves, fishing tourism, marine tourism).

European Social Fund

Partners: Spain, France,

Latvia

Fishing Community Initiative

Partners: Spain, France,

Portugal

F.A.R.O. Flexibility, adaptability and

reconversion of the fishing operators F.A.R.O.’s activities focus on the “Recognition of

professional qualifications within the fishing sector as

well as the experimentation of continuous integrated

training models and the experimentation of activities

regarding diversification”.

Diversification of small-scale fisheries in

Protected Marine Areas— FishingTourism The aim of the entire project and especially of the

workshop, which took place in Sardinia, is to create an

opportunity for meetings and discussion of fishermen

operating in Protected Marine Areas, together with their

representatives coming from several Mediterranean EU

countries.

Fishing Community Initiative

Partners: Spain, Greece

Equal Community Initiative

Partners: Spain, France,

Portugal

PINTA Project—Integrated Proposal regading

Tourism Adaptability The project's aim is to study and tackle the reduction in

national fisheries' production by means of promoting

fishing tourism and fishery tourism activities in

Protected Marine Areas. It aims at combatting the crisis

in the fishing sector, which places many at the risk of

work market exclusion, particularly in the small-scale

fishery area.

Equal Community Initiative

Partners: France, Spain

Projects in the Eu

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