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‘Good science’: Using sex-disaggregated data in small-scale fisheries research and policy
Type: Blog
Globally, relatively few data are available about women’s role in small-scale fisheries, despite their active participation as fishers, processors, traders and marketers. This calls for greater efforts by researchers, ...
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 ...
Four strategies to achieve inclusive and equitable aquatic food systems
Type: Blog
Growing evidence points to gender equality playing a key role in aquatic food systems’ crucial contributions to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Despite recent progress in advancing gender equality and ...
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 ...
CGIAR Research Program for Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) ends with a splash
Type: Blog
FISH provided compelling new evidence on the critical role of fish and other aquatic foods in improving food and nutrition security, reducing poverty and enhancing environmental sustainability through its five years of ...
Emerging Scientist: Laura Khor
Type: Blog
Laura Khor, a WorldFish Research Fellow, earned her Master of Science in Aquaculture from Universiti Malaysia Sabah and is currently working on novel approaches to monitoring and mitigating disease outbreaks in aquaculture. ...
Equitable digital tools can boost small-scale fisher livelihoods
Type: Blog
In low- and middle-income countries, ICTs can be used to assist small-scale fishers and fish workers, but illiteracy and unreliable internet connectivity need to be addressed to ensure marginalised fishers are not left behind.
Gender assumptions harm progress on climate adaption and resilience, new study finds
Type: Blog
Outdated assumptions around gender continue to hinder effective and fair policymaking and action for climate mitigation and adaptation, a new study published in Nature Climate Change has found.
African women join forces to overcome COVID-19 challenges in aquatic food systems
Type: Blog
Across Africa, women working in aquatic food value chains are banding together to support their livelihoods and ensure the continued flow of fish despite COVID-19 lockdowns and disruptions.