A dialogue event exploring the realities and strategies of working in the aquatic industry by women fishers and fishing sector members with a focus on nutrition in aquatic food systems and climate change and fisheries.
Date: Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Time: 20.30-22.00 (UTC+8)
Click here to register to participate in the event online
The UN Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 has shown us resoundingly that women’s voices from the fishing industry are not heard enough. Yet women comprise a surprising 40% of those involved in the small-scale fishing and aquaculture industry that supports 500 million people’s livelihoods around the world. It’s time for women’s voices to be heard.
This event will be hosted by the Professor of Gender and Development, the Member of the High-Level Panel of Experts to the Committee on World Food Security, the Commissioner for EAT-Lancet 2.0 on Healthy and Sustainable Diets and the Director of the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development (NISD), Nitya Rao, and will convene women fishers and fishing sector members and supporters from the global South to discuss their lives, the complicated realities of the community and industry they work in, the challenges they face on a daily basis and solutions that work.
Held as part of the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development (NISD)'s Voices of the Global South event with the theme 'Aquatic Food Systems', the session will bring together fishing communities, practitioners, educators, UN institutions and NGO staff, those innovating in fishing industries, researchers, students and all interested learners on climate change, adaptation, fishing, nutrition and livelihoods and will focus on nutrition in aquatic food systems and climate change and fisheries.
Invited speakers and partners:
Maffoja Begum, Department of Fisheries, Government of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Agricultural University, Dhaka
Lovin Kobusingye, Ugandan National Women Fish Organisation (UNWFO) and African Women Fish Processors and Traders Network (AWFishNET)
Emelia Nortey, Development Action Association, Ghana (DAA)
Regina Soloman and Emelia Abaka-Edu, Ghana National Fish Processors and Traders Association (NAFPTA)
S Velvizhi, Fish4All Training and Research Center, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India
Mohammad Mahfuzul Haque, Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Dhaka
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, WorldFish, Malaysia
John Walakira, National Agricultural Research Organisation, Uganda (NARO) and Africa Chapter of World Aquaculture Society
Facilitator:
Nitya Rao, Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development (NISD) and University of East Anglia, School of International Development
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We look forward to your active participation.