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Shahnaz is a role model for rural women in fish culture
Thursday, 9th May 2013
Shahnaz Dewan, a former elected member of local government, lives in Adabari village in Tangail...
“She’s just the cleaning lady”: Reflecting on gender norms
Tuesday, 16th April 2013
I had just arrived at our training venue in Dhaka and watched as the manager stood at the top of...

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New era of fisheries policy needed to secure nutrition for millions
Thursday, 16th May 2013
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Thursday 16 May, 2013...
Timor-Leste to tackle poverty and malnutrition with aquaculture
Wednesday, 24th April 2013
The government of Timor-Leste has developed a National Aquaculture Development...

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Presented by Michael Phillips, Malcolm Beveridge, and Wayne Rogers at the Producer Organization workshop, held in Cairo, Egypt on the 25th of September 2012.   Producer Organizations - some WorldFish Experiences from WorldFish  
  On April 2008, an Agreement was signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) to establish an Office of the WorldFish in the Philippines. The Agreement provides for the establishment of the WorldFish Office in the Philippines to undertake activities for research and development of aquatic and...
Dhaka, Bangladesh. October 13, 2012   The International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) was observed at the weekend with a rally and seminar held at the University of Dhaka. Participating in the rally was WorldFish Bangladesh and the Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation.   The theme for this years IDDR was ‘Women & Girls - the invisible force of resilience. Kevin Kamp,...
Presented by Doug Beare at the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystems (BBLME) Project, Regional Policy Workshop, held from the 2nd of to the 5th of October, 2012.   Linking research and policy in fisheries and aquaculture: recommendations from WorldFish from WorldFish  
  Last week, the Building Coalitions, Creating Change workshop brought together donors, researchers and practitioners on gender and development to discuss a gender transformative approach to agricultural research in development (a recent Expiscor blog post explains this idea in more detail). The workshop was a major step forward, with participants giving us the benefit of their...
In a previous Expiscor blog post WorldFish Director General Stephen Hall laid out the rationale for adopting a gender transformative approach that goes beyond just considering the symptoms of gender disparity, and addresses the social norms and attitudes that lie behind them. The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems has placed a transformative approach at the heart of its...

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