Fundación Lonxanet

Fundación Lonxanet para la pesca sostenible

Member since: 2021

Working towards these commitments

Recognize and protect the diverse tenure and production systems upon which people’s livelihoods depend, including the communal and customary tenure systems of smallholders, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fisher folks, and holders of overlapping, shifting and periodic rights to land and other natural resources, even when these are not recognized by law, and whilst also acknowledging that the well-being of resource-users may be affected by changes beyond the boundaries of the land to which they have tenure rights.
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Diverse Tenure Systems

Enable the role of local land users in territorial and ecosystem management, recognizing that sustainable development and the stewardship of ecosystems are best achieved through participatory decision-making and management at the territorial-level, empowering local land users and their communities with the authority, means and incentives to carry out this responsibility.
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Locally-managed ecosystems

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Mission

Contribuir al fortalecimiento de la pesca artesanal y de sus poblaciones estableciendo vínculos con el sector pesquero que propicien propuestas, proyectos y acciones basados en criterios de sostenibili-dad y participación social. La finalidad es resolver y/o minimizar sus problemáticas y posicionar a los pescadores artesanales como guardianes y/o custodios (gestores o co-gestores) de los ecosistemas acuáticos en los que realizan sus actividades productivas.

Objectives

Desarrollar iniciativas que sean estímulos para un cambio profundo de la sociedad, donde todos los actores sean corresponsables de la construcción de un mundo más justo que además contribuya a la reducción de la pobreza. La pesca artesanal a pequeña escala fija población al territorio, incorpora a la mujer al trabajo, favorece la redistribución de la riqueza y reparto de los recursos pesqueros de forma más equitativa, es por ello, una actividad que reduce la pobreza y contribuye a la sostenibilidad social, económica y ambiental de las comunidades costeras.

Constituencies

Pescadores artesanales, asociaciones que les representan y las comunidades costeras dependientes de la pesca artesanal.