Watch This Site for the Outputs of GAF4

Posted on October 21, 2012 by | 2 Comments

The 4th Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Global Event (GAF4) finished last Friday 3 May (in beautiful Yeosu, Korea) after 3 stimulating and very successful days of oral presentations, mini workshops, posters and very engaged discussions. Thanks are due to all presenters and participants and to Dr Nikita Gopal and all of the Organizing Committe members.

Final Program of GAF4: Download here

Thanks to the hard work of Angela Lentisco, you can read all the GAF4 Twitter feeds over the 3 days on: https://twitter.com/Genderaquafish (if you have a Twitter account) or via  Storify: 

Day 1: https://storify.com/angie_lentisco/4th-gender-and-aquaculture-symposium-day-1

Day 2: https://storify.com/angie_lentisco/4th-gender-in-aquaculture-and-fisheries-symposium-1

Day 3: https://storify.com/angie_lentisco/4th-gender-in-aquaculture-and-fisheries-symposium-2

COMING SOON: abstracts, powerpoints, photos and reports from GAF4

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Prof. Stella Williams leads new Nigerian Women in R&D Initiative

Posted on May 19, 2013 by | 3 Comments
Dr Stella Williams addresses the NIWARD meeting. Source: FUTA

Dr Stella Williams addresses the NIWARD meeting. Source: FUTA

A bold new Nigerian initiative to support Nigerian rural women and women academics has launched, led by Dr Stella Williams, well know to many of the Genderaquafish.org followers.

The Nigerian Women in Agricultural
Research for Development (NIWARD) initiative will be hosted at the Centre for Gender Issues in Science and Technology (CEGIST) of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA). Professor Williams is the National President.

The Hon.Nigerian  Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, commended the initiative when he delivered The FOUNDATION DAY LECTURE on Friday, 17th May, 2013.

Read about the inaugural meeting of NIWARD here: Link

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Counting Women’s Participation in EU Aquaculture

Posted on May 18, 2013 by | Leave a comment
Carp, Czeck Republic. Source: The Prague Post 21 Dec 2011.

Carp, Czeck Republic. Source: The Prague Post 21 Dec 2011, Walter Novak.

A new EU report on the European Union member countries’ aquaculture sector contains some basic gender-disaggregated data on employment. Although the statistics are incomplete, they nevertheless provide some useful information. The report is called: The Economic Performance of the EU Aquaculture Sector – 2012 exercise. (STECF-13-03). It is  a joint Scientific and Policy Report and was produced by the Joint Research Centre.

Download the report here: download

The key results show that, in 2010, women comprised:

- 29 % of the EU aquaculture sector employment

- 23 % of the FTE (full-time-equivalents) in employment

- 27 % of the EU aquaculture shellfish sector employment.

-  24 % of the EU aquaculture marine sector employment.

- 29 % of the EU aquaculture freshwater sector employment (but data are  less complete than for other forms because they are not compulsory – France and Romania are  biggest employers).

Women’s participation varied greatly by country and the EU averages tended to be dominated by patterns in France and Spain. The table below is an extract of data for countries with more than 1,000 aquaculture jobs.

Country

Total Number employees (2010)

Number female

% female

% female FTE
France

19,814

7,030

35

28
Ireland

1,719

146

8

8
Portugal

2,320

430

19

18
Romania

3,933

603

15

15
Spain

27,907

8,055

29

21
UK

4,000

n.a.

n.a.

 [18% women in Scottish shellfish industry]

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Posted in Aquaculture, England, Estonia, Europe, FAO, UN Women, other multilateral, Finland, France, Gender, Germany, Ireland, Men, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, Women

How to Mainstream Gender in Small Scale Fisheries: Lessons from Experience

Posted on May 16, 2013 by | 1 Comment
Learning better household budgeting, Cambodia. Photo: RFLP

Learning better household budgeting, Cambodia. Photo: RFLP

The FAO-Spain Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme for South and Southeast Asia has taken their more formal gender materials (especially the RFLP gender mainstreaming manual) and their on the ground experience and produced this attractive, easy to read and yet very rich guide to what to do.

Get the guide here: Download

The clear lessons from experience include:

1. Don’t get lost in translation (of technical gender terms)

2. Think gender from the start

3. Study first, then decide

4. Consider quotas for women’s participation

5. Take the time and effort (and get the men involved)

6. Consider participation of women in traditional ‘men’s’ activities

7. Beware the double burden

8. Be flexible (make training convenient for women)

9. Get the right support

10. Alternative fisheries livelihoods are often women’s livelihoods

11. Collect gender-disaggregated data

12. Spread the good word

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GAF4 FINAL PROGRAMME

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PROGRAMME

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Understanding and measuring women’s empowerment in agriculture

Posted on April 26, 2013 by | Leave a comment

FAC Okali weaiLast year, Genderaquafish posted on the new IFPRI, USAID, OPHI  index on women’s empowerment in agriculture tool (see the post and links). Now, Christine Okali, one of the world’s foremost researchers on rural development and gender,  has challenged the approach of the women’s empowerment index as being too specific, constrained to a point in time and failing to address the linkages between women and men in decision-making in  the  larger life settings. She suggests this is a step backwards to older approaches and concludes: “Surely a better understanding of the dynamics of decision-making, and therefore social change, would be a more satisfactory product for 2015 than an index that will only lead us back into an analytical, policy and programmatic cul-de-sac.”

Read Prof Okali’s blog at: http://www.future-agricultures.org/blog/entry/measuring-womens-empowerment-a-retrograde-step-#.UXonWuzAk6Z

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New IFPRI release: data needs for gender analysis in agriculture

Posted on April 25, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Good gender-sensitive research starts with good data. IFPRI has just released a discussion paper to the 2011 FAO “State of Food and Agriculture 2010-2011: Women and Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for Development“.

The Discussion Paper provides “guidelines on how to collect better gendered data through surveys. It details who should be interviewed; how the interview should be structured; and what kinds of questions should be asked, both at the individual level and also more broadly at the household, community or regional levels.”

Download Discussion Paper here

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Announcement regarding situation in South Korea

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Posted on April 4, 2013 by in Uncategorized