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Gender Transformative Approaches: Transforming food systems to advance equality
Type: Poster
Women and men are both critical to resilient food systems. Yet the aquatic food sector is not an even playing field: persistent gender inequalities mean women face more barriers than men at every turn. Infographic on Gender ...
Expanding the horizons for women in fisheries and aquaculture
Type: Journal Article
Women are present in all phases of fish production, processing and distribution, and contribute to the generation of wealth, the preservation of aquatic ecosystems, and the maintenance of households and communities in rural ...
Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions
Type: Journal Article
Gender has a powerful influence on people’s experience of, and resilience to, climate change. Global climate change policy is committed to tackling gender inequalities in mitigation and adaptation. However, progress is ...
Situated transformations of women and gender relations in small-scale fisheries and communities in a globalized world
Type: Journal Article
The need to uncover, interrogate, and integrate women’s contributions to fisheries in research and development has never been clearer. As coastal and fisheries management continues to look to the Sustainable Development ...
CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH): Gender Strategy
Type: Report
As embodied by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, gender equality and women’s empowerment are globally recognized priority development goals. The CGIAR’s alignment with these goals is embodied in its commitment to closing ...
Global Symposium on Women in Fisheries
Type: Conference Proceedings
All over the world, women contribute in multiple ways to the production, processing, marketing and management of fish and other living aquatic resources. The first ever Global Symposium on Women in Fisheries, held in ...
Toward structural change: Gender transformative approaches
Type: Book Chapter
Almost a quarter of a century after the Beijing Declaration, and with 10 years left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, The Guardian announced the SDG Gender Index’s finding that, “Not one single country is set to ...
Affordable local ingredients for fish feeds in low-income contexts: A social and gender risk and opportunity analysis
Type: Working Paper
Aquaculture’s contribution to food and nutrition security and also poverty reduction can be viewed in
three ways: (1) as a direct source of food, including protein and essential micronutrients, (2) as a source of
employment ...
Changing traditions : a summary report on the first global look at the gender dimensions of fisheries
Type: Conference Paper
The symposium provided new views and insights, and the open discussion at the end settled on four principal directions for future action: to investigate in depth the economic contributions of all segments of fishing ...
‘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, ...