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A Community Health Worker Becomes a FishFirst! Zambia Champion and Local Catalyst for Change
Type: Blog
In 2022, the FishFirst! Zambia team returned to Lake Kariba to implement the second phase of their research, which focused on providing nutrition training, conducting cooking demonstrations and implementing sensory panels ...
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 ...
Pond Polyculture: Disrupting gender and cultural norms in Luwingu, Northern Province, Zambia
Type: Blog
Pond polyculture is one of the methodologies employed through the nutrition-sensitive fish agri-food systems approach as means to improve food and nutrition security and livelihoods in vulnerable communities. The ‘Managing ...
Testing tools to measure women’s empowerment in fisheries and aquaculture
Type: Blog
To measure the impact of fisheries and aquaculture projects on women's empowerment and nutrition, it is important to have a reliable tool for data collection.
Casting light on the hidden fishers
Type: Blog
Women contribute to the success of small-scale fisheries worldwide, playing central roles in generating income and providing protein-rich sustenance for their communities. But you’d never know it if you looked at most ...
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.
Global study on small-scale fisheries to provide vital knowledge, recognizes UN report
Type: Blog
The Illuminating Hidden Harvests study will provide critical knowledge and information on small-scale fisheries globally, informing the way forward for sustainable development of the sector. This vital contribution was ...
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 ...
The cool women of Malaita
Type: Blog
During 2016 livelihood ideas were diagnosed for feasibility using a livelihood assessment guide to identify potential problems with the idea. Since 2017, the women in West Are’are Rokotanikeni Women’s Association in Solomon ...
Shrimp farming and research in Bangladesh adapts to COVID-19 pandemic
Type: Blog
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted tremendously every aspect of the economy in Bangladesh, including aquaculture. The entire aquaculture supply chain and marketing system is facing multiple challenges. Many fish farmers ...