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The Joys and Pains of Managing a Maturing Website

By Meryl Williams This website, Genderaquafish.org, will be 3 years old next month. Recently, as I undertook some long overdue maintenance, I reflected on the joys and pains of a maturing website. First the joys! Thanks to a steady feed of good and relevant material on women/gender in aquaculture and fisheries, and supporting material from Read more about The Joys and Pains of Managing a Maturing Website[…]

Planning for Impact in Aquaculture and Fisheries Projects

WorldFish Center and IFAD have released a guide to ex-ante impact evaluation in aquaculture and fisheries. The guide gives good attention to collecting gender disaggregated information. The guide is: Crissman, C.C., Abernethy, K., Delaporte, A., Timmers, B. (2013) A Practical Guide for Ex-ante Impact Evaluation in Fisheries and Aquaculture. CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems. Read more about Planning for Impact in Aquaculture and Fisheries Projects[…]

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A Future Gender Roadmap in Indian Fisheries Research

Getting gender into the fisheries and aquaculture agenda requires large and fundamental changes inside the organisations that support the sector, including the research institutes. Last year, the fisheries institutes of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), one of the world’s largest agricultural research systems, held a pioneering workshop to plan a future roadmap for Read more about A Future Gender Roadmap in Indian Fisheries Research[…]

More than equal: Women’s Inshore Harvests in Oceania

A new paper in the journal Marine Policy, gives an overview of Women and fisheries: Contribution to food security and local economies. The paper is written by Sarah Harper, Dirk Zeller, Melissa Hauzer, Daniel Pauly, Ussif Rashid Sumaila and is a contribution from the Sea Around Us project. The paper is an overview of a wide range of issues Read more about More than equal: Women’s Inshore Harvests in Oceania[…]

Infographics: Using Pictures to Tell the (Data) Story

The Spain-FAO Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme for South and South East Asia (RFLP) started its work in 2009 by undertaking comprehensive baseline studies in its selected coastal project sites in Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. RFLP published the baseline survey reports in traditional formats. Now, RFLP has turned the detailed reports into Read more about Infographics: Using Pictures to Tell the (Data) Story[…]

Genderaquafish.org gathers momentum: 2012 in Review

Women’s and men’s contributions are both critical to the success of aquaculture and fisheries. Statistics on the growing interest being shown in this website since its creation over two years ago (in September 2010) indicate that more people are taking an interest in research and development insights on gender in aquaculture and fisheries. In 2012, the Read more about Genderaquafish.org gathers momentum: 2012 in Review[…]

Passing of Dr M.C. Nandeesha

With deep regret, I convey the sad news that Dr M.C. Nandeesha, the inspiration for starting the Asian Fisheries Society’s Gender/Women in Fisheries/Aquaculture activities in the early 1990s, has passed away in Chennai, India. The gender and fisheries community, and others such as the fisheries education and aquaculture research and development communities, convey their sincere Read more about Passing of Dr M.C. Nandeesha[…]

Foreign Aid for Gender Equality: The Challenge for Donors

The United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) held its first Research and Communication in Foreign Aid project workshop on gender equality (12-13 July 2012, Helsinki). Gender equality is one of the project’s five themes. The workshop identified key focus areas for what works, what could work, what is transferable, and Read more about Foreign Aid for Gender Equality: The Challenge for Donors[…]

Five-country information for gender in fish production

A new working paper from WorldFish Center delves into some of the basic background information needed to develop research and development programs with a gender focus in aquaculture and fisheries production systems in Bangladesh, Cambodia, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Zambia. Transforming aquatic agricultural systems towards gender equality: a five country review Weeratunge, N., Chiuta, Read more about Five-country information for gender in fish production[…]

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Philippine conference on women fishers a great success

By Rosario H. Asong, PhD and Anna Razel Ramirez of The National Network on Women in Fisheries in the Philippines, Inc. NNWFP Holds 6th Biennial National Conference  The National Network on Women in Fisheries in the Philippines, Inc. held its  6th Biennial National Conference on Gender and Fisheries on September 19-21, 2012  at Hotel Alejandro, Read more about Philippine conference on women fishers a great success[…]