作者: Julia Nakamura

Julia Nakamura is a legal officer with the Development Law Service (LEGN) of the Legal Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). She supports the work of LEGN in delivering technical assistance on areas of food and agriculture law, and has contributed to various publications and activities relating to the SSF Guidelines’ implementation through policy and legal frameworks. Julia is concluding her doctoral studies about international law and small-scale fisheries, specifically the application of ecosystem and human rights approaches for securing participatory international fisheries management and conservation (University of Strathclyde, UK).​     Ratana Chuenpagdee is a University Researcher Professor at Memorial University in St. John’s, Canada. She leads the global partnership for small-scale fisheries Too Big To Ignore (TBTI), which aims to elevate the profile of small-scale fisheries and rectify their marginalization in national and international policies. Some of the current activities are ‘Blue Justice’ for small-scale fisheries, transdisciplinary capacity training to support the implementation of the SSF Guidelines, and innovative fisheries governance. Ratana also co-leads a research module on informing governance responses in a changing ocean for the Ocean Frontier Institute, another major collaborative research between universities, governments, private sectors, and communities.   Svein Jentoft is a Professor Emeritus at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Ui T – The Arctic University of Norway. His long career as a social scientist specializing on fisheries management and fisheries communities has yielded numerous articles and books. He has been involved in and led many international projects in both the Global South and North. Jentoft is a founding member of TBTI and has been leading a working group on ʻGoverning the Governanceʼ anda research cluster related to the ʻSSF Guidelinesʼ. He has edited and authored several TBTI books including ʻLife Above Waterʼ (2019) and its recently published sequel ‘Gift of Community’.