Bangladesh women shrimp farmers at training course. Photo: M. Nuruzzaman
Catch up here on our comprehensive overview of all 48 presentations and posters from GAF3. Presenters from 21 countries covered the following geographic areas: global – 9 presentations; countries – Asia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam; Africa: Namibia, Tanzania; regions; South and Southeast Asia, Pacific, Europe.
The report, SHINING A LIGHT ON GENDER IN AQUACULTURE AND FISHERIES, discovered some common threads among the many papers.
- The social context of gender needs deeper diagnosis than gender alone in order to understand the complex ‘back stories’ of women and communities.
- Women are still invisible and often marginal in the fish sector, trade and in natural resource management, although mainstream exceptions exist
- The conundrum of women’s access to micro-finance yet lack of progress in building assets; and
- The struggles and successes of achieving gender equality in institutions.
Messages of hope also emerged, founded on intrinsic community and personal resilience strategies and innovations such as training and inclusive governance.
All those of us involved with GAF3 wish to express our gratitude for the support of the:
- Asian Fisheries Society
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- National Network on Women in Fisheries in the Philippines, Inc.
- FAO-Spain Regional Fisheries Livelihood Programme for South and Southeast Asia
- Indian Council of Agricultural Research
- Shanghai Ocean University
- Mundus Maris
- plus the personal support of all presenters and their organizations.
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