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Informal fish retailing in rural Egypt: Opportunities to enhance income and work conditions for women and men
Poor rural consumers benefit from Egypt’s aquaculture sector through access to small and medium-sized farmed tilapia sold by informal fish retailers, many of whom are women. In fact, informal fish retail is the main, if not only, segment of the farmed ...
Type: Publication
Year 1 operational report: Improving employment and income through development of Egypt’s aquaculture sector (IEIDEAS) project
Implementation of the SDC funded project ‘Improving Employment and Income through Development of Egypt’s Aquaculture Sector’ commenced on 1st December 2011 and will continue until late 2014. This report summarizes the results of the first 10 months until ...
Type: Publication
Gender norms and agricultural innovation: Insights from six villages in Bangladesh
The ability of development interventions to catalyse and support innovation for—and by— women and men is undermined by lack of specific understanding about how gender norms interact with gender relations and what this means for innovation. This is also ...
Type: Publication
Does sustainable intensification offer a pathway to improved food security for aquatic agricultural system-dependent communities?
Sustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological, economic and social dimensions, where food and nutrition security, gender and ...
Type: Publication
Exploring futures of Aquatic Agricultural Food Systems in Southern Africa: From drivers to future-smart research and policy options
Sustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological, economic and social dimensions, where food and nutrition security, gender and ...
Type: Publication
FISH: CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agrifood Systems: Proposal
The goal of CRP Research Program on Fish Agrifood Systems (FISH) is to achieve sustainable increases in the gender and socially inclusive production and equitable distribution of nutritious fish to improve the livelihoods and nutrition of poor households ...
Type: Publication
Gender and aquaculture value chains: A review of key issues and implications for research
Although aquaculture is the fastest growing food producing sector in the world and generates significant employment opportunities at multiple scales, men and women are not necessarily able to participate in aquaculture value chains in the same way, and ...
Type: Publication
Gender and poverty dimensions in a value chain analysis of milkfish mariculture in Misamis Oriental, Philippines
This paper aims to describe the role of key players in the value chain for milkfish Chanos chanos (Forsskål, 1775) in a mariculture Park in Balingasag, Misamis Oriental in the Philippines with an emphasis on gender dimensions. It also estimates the value ...
Type: Publication
Gender in Myanmar’s small-scale aquaculture sector
WorldFish’s objective for Myanmar’s MYCulture program is to improve food and income security in the country’s Ayeyarwady Delta and Central Dry Zone regions through the development of small-scale aquaculture To ensure maximum and equitable distribution of ...
Type: Publication
Gender inequalities in access to and benefits derived from the natural fishery in the Barotse Floodplain, Zambia, Southern Africa
People living in and around the Barotse Floodplain are some of the poorest in Zambia due to many factors restricting their abilities to engage in activities to secure food and income. Women, and in particular resident women, are especially constrained ...
Type: Publication
