2503) UN International Year of Artisanal Fisheries & Aquaculture (IYAFA - 2022), Greenland: Tussass AS (formerly Greenland Technical Organisation and Telepost) has issued a postage stamp of DKK 29.50 highlighting IYAFA - 2022: Date of Stamp issue: 31.08.2022:
Greenland is called "Kalaallit Nunaat" in Greenlandic, which translates to the "Land of the Greenlanders".
It also sometimes goes by the name "Inuit Nunaat", which means "Land of the People".
The mother tongue and official language in Greenland is Greenlandic, with Danish functioning as a second language.
About UN International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture:
Under the motto "Small in scale, big in value", the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has declared 2022 as the "International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture" (IYAFA 2022), with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as its lead Organisation working in cooperation with other UN bodies.
The aim is to focus the world’s attention on the role of small-scale fishing, fish farmers and fish workers in food and nutrition security, as well as the eradication of poverty and more sustainable use of natural resources, thereby increasing global awareness and action to support them.
Presently, it is estimated that 40 million people are directly engaged in traditional capture of fisheries worldwide.
This increases to 120 million if indirectly engaged workers are also considered.
Of these, 90 percent are small-scale fishers and fish workers, and almost 50 percent are women.
IYAFA 2022 affords an opportunity to highlight the importance of small-scale fisheries and aquaculture for our food systems, livelihoods, culture and the environment.
Small-scale fishers, fish farmers and fish workers hold enormous potential to promote transformative changes in how, by whom and for whom fish and fishery products are produced, processed and distributed – with positive effects felt throughout the entire global food chain.
Aquaculture in Greenland:
In 2013, Aarhus University published a study on the potential for seaweed cultivation and Greenlandic fish farming. As part of an assessment of the potential of commercial macro-algae exploitation in Greenland, trials for the cultivation of seaweed were recommended, including the assessment and identification of suitable sites, where the presence of ice in particular can be a Greenlandic challenge.
Greenlandic seaweed – a part of the climate-friendly fuel of the future?
A brand-new project initiated by the Greenlandic Department of Agriculture, Self-sufficiency, Energy and the Environment has led to a Nordic Research Team being granted funding to initiate studies of seaweed forests in Greenland.
The research team shall, amongst other things, investigate whether the seaweed resource is sufficient enough to warrant large-scale harvesting of seaweed for energy utilisation in the future.
Seaweed is increasingly considered to be a resource that can be utilised in the production of food and energy.
In the future, Greenlandic seaweed could be included in the production of biogas, which also transforms CO2.
In combination with hydrogen, which can even be sustainably produced using the country’s hydroelectric power plants, CO2 extracted from Greenlandic seaweed could potentially be used to create the climate-friendly fuel of the future.
The Stamp:
The Postage Stamp of 29.50 DKK depicts a Greenlandic Inuit fisherman fishing in a traditional manner.
A First Day Cover (FDC) shows an Inuit fisherman fishing in a traditional canoe at bottom left.
The postage stamp is affixed at top right cancelled with a special cancellation Handstamp/Postmark showing the tip of a traditional hunting spear and a fish in its centre.
The Cancellation is of Tasilaq Post Office and the date of Cancellation is - "31.08.2022".
Technical details:
Issue Date: 31.08.2022
Designer: Miki Jacobsen
Process: Offset
Size: 40.00 mm x 30.00 mm
Values: DKK 29.50
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