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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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Participant Reflections from a Cambodian Study Tour to Lao’s Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project Dam Site Source: CPWF Mekong   From February 13-18, 2012 thirteen participants took part in a study tour to the Theun-Hinboun Dam expansion project in Lao PDR. Traveling from Steung Treng Province in Cambodia this diverse group, made up of Cambodian provincial government officials, NGO workers and...
VIDEO: Farming Waters, Changing Lives - via Reuters AlertNet   Climate change, sea level rise and increased salinity are some of the challenges to development in Bangladesh. The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems is working in Bangladesh to help small-scale fish farmers improve their lives through better farming practices. Watch now      
Some of the threats posed by climate change can appear rather esoteric or abstract. One of these is ocean acidification - it is not immediately obvious why we should care. A recent paper by Sara Cooley and colleagues give a good example of why the threat of changing ocean chemistry matters.   In my last blog I pointed out that most of the food produced by farming the sea is molluscs. This...
Photo by REUTERS/Feisal Omar 24 April 2012   By Thin Lei Win   HANOI (AlertNet) - Climate change threatens to reduce catches from fisheries and worsen hunger among some of sub-Saharan Africa’s poorest people, who rely on fish as a major source of protein and earnings, according to new research from the International Institute for Environment and...
  “Clear scientific consensus is forming on the impact of dams on the Mekong and its tributaries” said Dr. Blake Ratner, WorldFish Program Leader in Governance at a seminar hosted by the Stimson Center on 24 April 2012. Stimson brought together a diverse group of experts to discuss their recent report, Mekong Turning Point: Shared River for a Shared Future and broader issues concerning the...
Summaries of papers given at seminar on Fighting Food and Nutrition Insecurity held in Dhaka 18 April 2012     Read the press release.   Presentations from the Agriculture Nutrition Linkages Seminar Naser Farid - Bangladesh Country Investment Plan View more presentations from WorldFish   Charles Crissman - CGIAR reform and CGIAR Research Programs View...
Friday 13th Aril, 2012   The 2011 board awards were presented by Dr. Stephen Hall, Director General of WorldFish, on behalf of the Board of Trustees at the center's headquarters in Penang, Malaysia on Friday. The awards celebrate the outstanding achievements of WorldFish staff from the Centers' offices around the world. This year's Board of Trustees awards recognized 3 categories: the...
How Coral Bleaching Could Lead to Famine Via Scientific American The effects of climate change, such as coral bleaching, become slow-motion disasters, with knock-on effects for years. For Tim McClanahan, a zoologist studying fisheries, what happened in Kenya during the spring of 1998 was a wake-up call. Between March and July of that year, a rare climatological double whammy sent ocean...
Mariculture certainly holds promise as part of the solution to meeting our need and demand for fish, but it's not the obvious option that many people imagine   When I talk about what I do for a living, it doesn't take long for the conversation to turn to the question of how we are going to meet the world's growing demand and need for fish. In these conversations I find most people imagine...

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