The SSF Guidelines are also closely related to the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forestry in the Context of National Food Security, the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security, and the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems. [...] Accordingly, the Guidelines are intended to support the visibility, recognition and enhancement of the already important role of small-scale fisheries and to contribute to global and national efforts towards the eradication of hunger and poverty. [...] Small-scale fishing communities are and principles, including equality and non- commonly located in remote areas and tend discrimination, participation and inclusion, to have limited or disadvantaged access accountability and the rule of law, and the to markets, and may have poor access to principle that all human rights are universal, health, education and other social services. [...] Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of All these factors make it difficult for small- National Food Security (Tenure Guidelines) scale fishers and fish workers to make their and the Voluntary Guidelines to support voices heard, defend their human rights and the Progressive Realization of the Right to tenure rights, and secure the sustainable Adequate Food in the Context of National use of t [...] They are also aimed at research and the advancement of knowledge on the culture, academic institutions, the private sector, role, contribution and potential of small-scale non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and fisheries, considering ancestral and traditional all others concerned with the fisheries sector, knowledge, and their related constraints and coastal and rural development and the use of