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Cookbook celebrates aquatic foods for life and livelihoods in Timor-Leste
Type: Blog
A new cookbook celebrates aquatic foods and their traditional cooking methods in Timor-Leste. Aquatic foods have the potential to improve health and nutrition in the country and support rural livelihoods.
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 ...
Partnering with Bank Asia to provide loans to small-scale aquatic food producers in Bangladesh
Type: Blog
WorldFish partnered with Bank Asia to increase the financial literacy among aquatic food producers in Northern Bangladesh. This partnership also saw aquatic food producers obtaining easier access to financing through a ...
In the Spotlight: Sajeda Yasmin
Type: Blog
WorldFish researcher Sajeda Yasmin discusses her efforts to make aquaculture more gender-inclusive in Bangladesh.
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 ...
Genetically improved rohu carp is now in the hands aof Bangaldeshi farmers
Type: Blog
Most farmers of livestock and crops have long had access to
genetically improved breeds and varieties, but that has not been
the case for carp farmers such as Shafiujjaman Momin from
Bagatipara upazila ...
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.
Zambian aquaculture provides new opportunities for youth
Type: Blog
Zambia’s emerging aquaculture sector is set to be a key supplier of fish and other aquatic foods in sub-Saharan Africa. The sector already employs approximately 13,000 people. Its growth presents an economic opportunity ...
In the Spotlight: Anouk Ride
Type: Blog
Anouk Ride is WorldFish's social scientist based in the Solomon Islands. Ride's research focuses on human wellbeing and social security. Ride works at the intersection of conflict, gender and social inclusion in small-scale ...