Women Professionals in Fisheries And Aquaculture in Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) B.Meenakumari Presentations 977 KB Comparative Profitability of Women Dominated Fish-Based Livelihood Activities in Southwest, Nigeria Mafimisebi T. E. Presentations 175 KB GENDERED CONCERNS IN COASTAL DISASTERS: AN ANALYSIS OF WOMEN’S POLITICAL SUBORDINATION AND PROSPECTS FOR EMPOWERMENT Mary Barby P Presentations 1 MB The Impact of Financial Assistance to Fisherwoman’s Income Zuzy Anna Presentations 1 MB VULNERABLE WOMEN ROLE IN SECURING HOUSEHOLD INCOME UNDER THE CIRCUMTANCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE ...

FAO SPECIAL WORKSHOP ON FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR GENDER IN AQUACULTURE AND FISHERIES ACTION, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 23-24 April 2011, Shanghai, China In association with the AFS GAF3 Global Symposium (by invitation only) NOW OUT! Download: FAO Special Workshop Report Download: GENDER Brochure AFAF9-GAF3 ...

More than 30 years after the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), discrimination on the basis of gender and its consequences for society is still struggling for mainstream attention especially in aquaculture and fisheries. FAO’s 2010/11 flagship report on the State of Food and Agriculture highlighted the gender gap in agriculture and estimated that raising women’s farm productivity by 20-30% could lift 100-150 million people out of poverty. ...

Supporters of GAF3 Asian Fisheries Society, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme for South and Southeast Asia (RFLP), Indian Council for Agricultural Research, National Network on Women in Fisheries in the Philippines, Mundus Maris, presenters and their host organizations Organizing Committee Meryl Williams (Chair), Melba Reantaso (Vice Chair), Choo Poh Sze (Vice Chair), Rosario H Asong, Katia Frangoudes, Kibria Ghulam, Mafaniso Hara, Hisashi Kurokura, Kyoko Kusakabe, M. C. Nandeesha, Marilyn Porter, Ida Siason, Katherine Snyder, Kripa Vas ...

3ND GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER IN AQUACULTURE AND FISHERIES 21-23 APRIL 2011 Venue: Shanghai Ocean University Room 2309 9TH ASIAN FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE FORUM PROGRAM Download Program:Program GAF3-9AFAF Final Download all Abstracts: GAF3 2011 All Abstracts in presentation, poster order-final 21 APR. 2011 AFTERNOON Session 1 Chair: Dr M. Williams 01 Dr Nandini Gunewardena (FAO) Welcome and Opening Remarks PPT 02 Marilyn Porter Why the coast matters: reflections on globalisation and gender in Tanzanian coastal communities ABS PPT ...

In addition to strong institutional support and the contributions of all the organizers and presenters, we very gratefully acknowledge grant support from the AquaFish Collaborative Research Support Program and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Meryl Williams (Chair), A.E. Eknath, B. Meenakumari, Choo Poh Sze, Hillary Egna, Ida Siason, Kyoko Kusakabe, M. C. Nandeesha, Malasri Khumsri, Marilyn Porter, Nikita Gopal, Nuruzzaman Md, Rosario Asong, Stella Williams, Sun-ae Ii, Theodora Hyuha, Katia Frangoudes, Melba Bondad-Reantaso, Kibria Ghulam SENIOR GRO ...

5th Global Symposium on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Venue: Lucknow, India, November 12-15, 2014, with the 10th Indian Fisheries Forum of the Asian Fisheries Society Indian Branch. SPONSORS Asian Fisheries Society, Asian Fisheries Society Indian Branch, Indian Council for Agricultural Research, Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific, United States Agency for International Development MARKET project (USAID-MARKET), Norad ...

The 2016 biennial Conference of the International Institution of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) (11-15 July, Aberdeen UK), recognized Professor Stella Williams’ by awarding her with its 2016 Distinguished Service Award (DSA). The DSA announcement said that “Professor Stella Williams embodies IIFET’s goals of fostering global interaction between academia, trade, and government on the economics of fisheries policy and seafood trade. ...

Rosemary Firth (1912-2001) was a British social anthropologist who specialised in the field of domestic economy. In 1941 (republished in 1966) her book, “Housekeeping among Malay Peasants,” tracked the detailed household economics of traditional fishing communities in east coast Malaysia. It was a companion to the book by her husband, Raymond Firth, “Malay Fishermen: Their Peasant Economy.” The 1966 volume of her book gave an account of changes she observed in the 23 years between study visits, and prescient views on the impacts of modernisation on traditional fishing communities. ...

Why gender matters in fisheries economics and trade The following statement was developed from a lively lunch time discussion @ IIFET-2018, 19 July 2018. It was compiled by Meryl Williams, Carmen Pedroza, Arpita Sharma, Mark Axelrod, Dale Squires, Stella Williams, Ayojesutomi Solanke, Kafayat Fakoya, Holly Hapke, Kate Barclay, Achini De Silva, Sarah Harper, Chikondi Pasani, Marysia Szymkowiak and Rashid Sumaila ...

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.com 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. ...