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In the Spotlight: Rahma Adam
Type: Blog
WorldFish researcher Rahma Adam explains how her work can lead to policies that can change existing formal and informal structures. Policies that are more sensitive and attentive to the needs of women and marginalized ...
In the Spotlight: Tasnuva Zaman
Type: Blog
Tasnuva Zaman is WorldFish's senior gender specialist based in Bangladesh. Zaman's research focuses on gender mainstreaming, which calls for an integrated gender perspective at all stages of development, and she works to ...
WorldFish key partner in revision of Bangladesh’s National Fisheries Policy (1998)
Type: Blog
A Divisional Stakeholder Consultation Workshop was co-hosted by WorldFish and Bangladesh’s Department of Fisheries (DoF) recently in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, to look at measures to transform the country’s fisheries and ...
Bangladeshi actress Jannatul Peya champions women in aquatic food systems
Type: Blog
WorldFish's initiative to increase women's empowerment through small fish production in Bangladesh's northern provinces of Rangpur and Rajshahi was featured on Colours FM 101.6 radio show Women in Aquaculture and Nutrition. ...
In the Spotlight: Sajeda Yasmin
Type: Blog
WorldFish researcher Sajeda Yasmin discusses her efforts to make aquaculture more gender-inclusive in Bangladesh.
Nutrition-sensitive carp mola polyculture through women’s groups: A successful policy intervention by the government of Odisha, India
Type: Blog
In 2018–2019, FARD launched a gender-sensitive flagship program named “Input assistance to Women Self Help Groups (WSHGs) for Scientific Fish Farming in Gram Panchayat Tanks.” This program promotes nutrition-sensitive pond ...
Nazmina Begum: an Aqua Entrepreneur, an Inspiration
Type: Blog
Nazmina Begum is one of the nine women in the North-western part of Bangladesh who was awarded as the "Best Aquaculture Farmers" in 2022 under the category of emerging fish farmer.
Suchana: Ending the cycle of undernutrition in Bangladesh. Demo Pond: Carp-Tilapia-Mola polyculture
Type: Blog
Suchana selected Jesmine as a potential demo farmer as well as an adolescent peer leader in 2018. She received training on aquaculture activities and decided to utilise their 10 decimal pond for fish farming. Implementing ...
Beyond social-ecological traps: Pathways to a sustainable future
Type: Blog
In development and resilience research, the metaphor of a ‘trap’ is commonly employed to convey the rigidity that can be associated with complex systems. In practical meaning, and in their mechanical workings, traps are ...
In the Spotlight: Bernadette Fregene
Type: Blog
Bernadette Fregene is WorldFish’s aquaculture compact leader and a professor of aquaculture and fisheries extension, economics, and marketing at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Fregene facilitates the delivery of new ...