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Fishing for a future : women in community based fisheries management
Type: Brochure
This is the story of women in the Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) project in Bangladesh. It is the story of many women, who through CBFM, have improved and will continue to improve the livelihood of their family. ...
Enhancing the gender-equitable potential of aquaculture technologies
Type: Brief
Gender inequality constrains the real and potential capacity of women farmers to successfully adapt their farming practices in the face of climate risks or to develop stronger, more diversified livelihood portfolios that ...
Gender in the farmed fish value chain of Bangladesh: A review of the evidence and development approaches
Type: Brief
Bangladesh is the world's fifth-largest aquaculture producer, and statistics indicate that aquaculture now makes up about 56% of the country's total fish production in terms of value. In Bangladesh, fish is the most important ...
Empowering women through business development training for couples
Type: Blog
This is a story about Yeasmin Ara and Nurul Islam, a couple from Naogaon, Bangladesh. They shared their experience as a pair attending a business development training session organized by WorldFish in Bangladesh. Following ...
In the Spotlight: Faridul Haque
Type: News Item/Press Item
WorldFish and the CGIAR research program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) are global leaders in aquatic food systems research and innovation, and science and partnerships are the foundation of our work. Our team delivers ...
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 ...
Better management practices in fish farming through Women Self Help Groups in Odisha, India
Type: Video
One visionary policy change & one innovative flagship program of the Government involving multiple Departments could socio- economically empower tens of thousands of women organized under self-help groups by engaging them ...
How to measure women’s empowerment in the context of Agriculture and Nutrition Programs in India?
Type: Conference Proceedings
Presentation notes from BMFG Webinar, WorldFish India panelist.
Women’s empowerment and improved nutrition: An assessment of a project in Bangladesh using an adapted version of Pro-WEFI for small-scale fisheries and aquaculture (Pro-WEFI)
Type: Presentation
Ppt presented at the Science Exchange, CGIAR Gender Platform, ILRI campus, Nairobi. The Project Level Women’s Empowerment in Fisheries and Aquaculture Index (ProWEFI) measures the empowerment, agency and inclusion of women ...