Gender: Recent submissions
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Integrating nutrition and gender into Community Fish Refuge-Rice Field Fisheries system management: A practitioner’s guide
(2021)Type: ManualThe target audience of this guide are practitioners or implementers working in rice field fisheries in Cambodia or elsewhere. The aim of this guide is to help close the gap between rice field fishery production and ... -
Nutrition-sensitive carp mola polyculture through women’s groups: A successful policy intervention by the government of Odisha, India
(2021)Type: BlogIn 2018–2019, FARD launched a gender-sensitive flagship program named “Input assistance to Women Self Help Groups (WSHGs) for Scientific Fish Farming in Gram Panchayat Tanks.” This program promotes nutrition-sensitive pond ... -
Scientific fish farming in Gram Panchayat tanks by Women Self Help Groups in Odisha, India: Crop outcome survey report 2018–2019 and 2019–2020
Type: ReportThe report includes the crop outcome result of the scheme "Scientific Fish Farming in Gram Panchayat Tanks by Women Self Help Groups" implemented by FARD department. This includes the key output and outcome of the scheme ... -
Pond Polyculture: Disrupting gender and cultural norms in Luwingu, Northern Province, Zambia
(2021)Type: BlogPond polyculture is one of the methodologies employed through the nutrition-sensitive fish agri-food systems approach as means to improve food and nutrition security and livelihoods in vulnerable communities. The ‘Managing ... -
Pacific handbook for gender equity and social inclusion in coastal fisheries and aquaculture
Type: ManualThis handbook is designed to give practical guidance on improving gender and social inclusion in coastal fisheries and aquaculture for staff working in fisheries agencies in Pacific Island countries and territories. It ... -
2021 World Food Prize Laureate
Type: WebsiteDr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, native of Trinidad and Tobago and a citizen of Denmark, received the 2021 World Food Prize for her groundbreaking research, critical insights and landmark innovations in developing ... -
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Type: WebsiteScience and innovation are enriched by the diverse ideas, perspectives, and experiences women bring to the table. Diverse research teams bring diverse approaches to challenges. Having different people coming at research ... -
Gender and the Political Economy of Fish Agri-food Systems in the Global South
Type: Book ChapterThe significance of fish for human nutrition, health, and livelihoods is increasingly recognized by and for people around the world, especially in the Global South. However, fisheries and aquaculture do not equally benefit ... -
In the Spotlight: Tasnuva Zaman
Type: BlogTasnuva 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 ... -
African women join forces to overcome COVID-19 challenges in aquatic food systems
Type: BlogAcross 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. -
Gender assumptions harm progress on climate adaption and resilience, new study finds
Type: BlogOutdated 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. -
‘Bringing a change’ in women’s equitable involvement in aquaculture
Type: BlogThis blogpost highlights 2020 research outputs of the WorldFish gender theme as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH). Here, we focus on research examining gender in aquaculture, in particular ... -
A Gender research activity plan for the aquaculture: Increasing Income, Diversifying Diets and Empowering Women (IDEA) in Bangladesh project
Type: Demonstrator, pilot, prototype, plan designsThis document describes the key activities IDEA will undertake from 2020 to 2022 to achieve its women empowerment outputs and outcomes. It is organized around the main results stated in ‘Outcome 5’ women empowerment outputs ... -
A gendered aquaculture value chain analysis in northwestern Bangladesh
(2021)Type: Internal ReportThis document presents a value chain study with an integrated gender lens of the aquaculture sector in Rajshahi and Rangpur in northwestern Bangladesh. The study forms part of the contextual knowledge foundation for the ... -
Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleGender 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 ... -
Not recognizing women actors in aquaculture: Does the private sector lose business? (Seeds of Change Conference)
(2021)Type: PresentationPoster on the project to to identify the barriers that prevent goods, services and employment opportunities from being offered on an equitable basis to men and women in the aquaculture sector. The idea is not to develop ... -
Fish losses for whom? A gendered assessment of post-harvest losses in the barotse floodplain fishery, Zambia
(2020)Type: Journal ArticleFew studies examine post-harvest fish losses using a gender lens or collect sex-disaggregated data. This mixed-methods study assessed fish losses experienced by female and male value chain actors in a fishery in western ... -
Towards Ocean Equity
(2020)Type: Working PaperThis paper examines the distribution of the goods and services provided by the ocean, existing inequities and the resulting impacts on the environment, human health, and income distribution now and in the future. The paper ... -
Gender equality is diluted in commitments made to small-scale fisheries
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleGender equality is a mainstream principle of good environmental governance and sustainable development. Progress toward gender equality in the fisheries sector is critical for effective and equitable development outcomes ... -
Rapid assessment on gender dynamics, barriers, opportunities and risks in agriculture and aquaculture sectors in northwestern Bangladesh.
(2020)Type: Internal ReportGenerally Aquaculture in Bangladesh is perceived as men’s work (Barman, 2001) which implies that women has limited or no access to and benefit from aquaculture. Under this circumstance, this study aims to identify the ...
