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Inclusion of small indigenous fish improves nutritional quality during the first 1000 days
Type: Journal Article
Key contributing factors to undernutrition in low-income countries, including Bangladesh, are low dietary diversity in the diets of women and low nutrient density of traditional complementary foods (CFs) for infants and ...
The Role of Fish in the First 1,000 Days in Zambia
Type: Journal Article
Fish is especially rich in essential omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and micronutrients, including bioavailable calcium, iron and zinc. Fish features prominently in the diet of most, especially poor, Zambians. ...
Fish and the nutrition of rural Cambodians
Type: Journal Article
In Cambodia, fish is a central source of food for the rural poor due to its abundance and availability, and contributes greatly to national food security. In this paper, we review how fish is a staple food, provides quality ...
Selection of small indigenous fish for breeding trials in the states of Assam and Odisha in India
Type: Report
Farming SIS has great potential to increase their availability in the market and make them more accessible
to consumers but scaling up production of cultured SIS will require the development of new captive
breeding techniques. ...
Adopting a gender transformative approach (GTA) to increase dietary diversity and decision-making of women: Evidence form a nutrition-sensitive intervention in Bangladesh
Type: Poster
Given the high levels of malnutrition in Bangladesh and the importance of fish in providing micronutrients, we sought to understand the dietary diversity, level of nutrition knowledge, awareness, and attitude towards fish ...
Fish for Livelihoods: Nutrition update September 2020
Type: Newsletter
The newsletter provides a summary of the dried small fish powder activity implemented by Fish for Livelihoods project funded by USAID through engagement with a local company in Myanmar.
Fish and human nutrition
Type: Brochure
This flyer highlights the diet of fish in providing essential micronutrient for some population groups living in riparian and coastal areas.
Fish for Livelihoods: 1000 days poster (Burmese version)
Type: Poster
This poster highlights the benefits of eating Small Indigineous Fish (SIS), how to harvest it, and the benefits of growing them with other fish species. The benefits of the partial harvesting that they don't need to spend ...
Festoon for farmers training on nutrition
Type: Poster
Poster on the importance of nutrition of small fish for children and pregnant women in Bangladesh.
The socioeconomics of fish consumption and child health in Bangladesh
Type: Working Paper
Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHOs threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses on the socioeconomic ...