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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 ...
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.
Mainstreaming women’s participation in aquaculture for sustainable livelihoods
Type: Blog
The establishment of women-led fish harvesting groups in Bandarban, through the Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture and Nutrition Activity, has provided affordable fish harvesting services to local fish farmers. This ...
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 ...
Improving biosecurity practices of finfish aquaculture in Bangladesh
Type: Blog
Finfish biosecurity in Bangladesh is a growing concern due to the high demand for fish and the increasing prevalence of diseases in aquaculture.
WorldFish and partners are working with Bangladesh national research ...
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 ...
Blog Post: Production without medicalisation: AMR in Bangladesh's aquaculture, a one-health perspective
Type: Blog
Disease-causing bacteria, viruses, and parasites can develop resistance to antimicrobial (AM) agents (like antibiotics, antivirals and antiparasitics) to which they were originally sensitive. This is known as antimicrobial ...