Sex and gender (http://www.med.monash.edu.au/gendermed/sexandgender.html) Note this definition comes from a university medical site. Sex refers to biological differences; chromosomes, hormonal profiles, internal and external sex organs. Gender describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine. The Gender Department of FAO provides a list of definitions of gender roles, gender relations, equality, etc. http://www.fao.org/gender/gender-home/gender-why/why-gender/en/. Gender (definitions in a slightly amended version of that given by the FAO Aquaculture ...

Food security is often presented as a gender-neutral problem, but unequal access to food affects women and girls disproportionately and so gender-sensitive solutions are needed. The UK-based BRIDGE gender and development initiative has just released a policy brief and report on gender, food security and nutrition exploring the evidence and providing a new vision of gender-justice with implementing principles. The Gender and Food Security: towards gender-just food and nutrition security draft vision is comprehensive, bringing together elements where their analysis indicates transformation is ne ...

This FAO publication is a very welcome addition to the material on the problems and solutions to gender inequality all along fish supply chains. Good practice policies to eliminate gender inequalities in fish value chains, by Jennie Dey de Pryck analyses the facts, as they are known and provides guidance to action to address the inequalities across the sector, in small scale fisheries and aquaculture and in industrial fisheries. ...

This new ‘public data explorer’ results from a collaboration between Goolge and the World Bank. It offers great graphing options for the latest world indicators on: – economy – environment, – global links – people and markets, and – world view ...

In northern Australia, Lisa Petheram, Ann Fleming, Natasha Stacey and Anne Perry reported the results of a first study in Wurruwi community on South Goulburn Island (Northern Territory, Australia) people’s, especially women’s, perceptions and preferences on marine resource use and climate change. The report describes the local communitys’ modern history up to the 2011 establishment of the local Aboriginal Development Corporation (‘Yagbani’) of community representatives. ...

Many fisheries and aquaculture experts are now engaged in climate change research and action, so this new publication from the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) and collaborators is a handy guide to finding the gender-sensitive text in the various formal agreements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. ...

Penelope Beynon, Christelle Chapoy, Marie Gaarder and Edoardo Masset of the Institute of Development Studies, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation and NORAD carried out an intriguing randomized control design survey involving over 800 experts to try to answer this question. The policy brief used in the study was the report: Masset, E.; Haddad, L.; Cornelius, A. and Isaza-Castro, J. (2011) A Systematic Review of Agricultural Interventions that Aim to Improve Nutritional Status of Children. London: EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of ...

Prof Vijaykhader has a strong record of contributions to women in fisheries through food technology research and education in India. Her contributions have been recognized recently. She was appointed by the Government of India National Mission on Education and the Ministry of Human Resources Development as the subject coordinator for ICT enabled Higher Education at National level on production of course-ware e-Content for postgraduate subjects especially for Food Technology by. ...

In 2000, the Western Australian rock lobster (Panulirus cygnus) fishery was the world’s first fishery certified by the Marine Stewardship Council. Since then, however, the stock has had shocks from climate shifts. The fishing communities that harvest it, especially on the remote Abrolhos Islands, have been affected both by the climate impacts and the social impacts of new management measures. ...

More development research institute leaders, researchers and project developers are aware of the importance of gender equality in programs and project activities. Some have made public commitments to action through their work. Often, however, these good intentions are thwarted by lack of knowledge and expertise on how to go about it. ...

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) ...

Urbanization trends and the social impacts of economic change are macro social and economic themes today but rarely do we look more closely at the impacts on local and rural people. Anna Karlsdóttir has recently looked more closely at the women’s perspectives in Husavık village, NE Iceland, in a study done after Iceland’s economic collapse. Over the years leading up to the collapse, the village had gone from a fishing and agricultural services center to one focusing more on tourism and whale watching. Even before the economic crisis, under the fisheries quota system inhabitants had more limite ...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has released the latest issue of “Yemaya”, the unique newsletter that focuses on issues relating to gender and women in fisheries all around the world. The current issue, Yemaya No. 35, dated November 2010, is available for free download at https://www.icsf.net/yemaya-articles.php?id=5258 The issue features articles from Ecuador, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Mauritania and India. Also featured are news on websites and UN Women, the United Nations entity for gender equality and empowerment of women. ...

IIFET-2024 Pre-Conference Workshop – “Integrating Gender into Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics and Trade Research” The Gender Workshop was held on 15 July at WorldFish Headquarters, Batu Muang, Penang, Malaysia. Please refer to our Story on the Workshop at LINK. ...

“Gender equality thinking should not focus just on the numbers of women and men in fish supply chains”, said Gifty Anane-Taabeah (Ghana), the final panelist on Overcoming Gender Equalities in Fish Supply Chains. The panel and two presentation sessions (Markets and Value Chains for Small Aquaculture Enterprises and Looking at Fish Supply Chains with a Gender Lens) were held on the first day of the 2012 conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Rather, Gifty contended, “the overall aim should be how to empower women and men in ...

Gender Research As A New Frontier In Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics: In The Footsteps Of Rosemary Firth Gender on the agenda at IIFET-2016 ...

The 2018 Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) was held at the University of Washington, Seattle, Wa (USA) from 16-20 July. A Special Session “Bringing Gender Discourse in Fisheries Economics and Trade” attracted a stimulating set of presentations. The first Rosemary Firth Prize for Best Paper on the Economics of Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture was awarded in the IIFET 2018 Conference Opening Session, and two special lunch time events focused on making the case for why gender matters in fisheries economics and trade, and a women’s professional n ...

Carmen Pedroza, winner of the first Rosemary Firth Prize for Best Paper on the Economics of Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture, presents at IIFET-2018. Photo: Ann Shriver. IIFET 2018 Seattle Conference Rosemary Firth Prize for Best Paper on the Economics of Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture. Building on efforts to highlight gender research at previous IIFET Conferences, the Rosemary First Best Paper Prize prize aims to help bring gender study into economic and trade research themes in a ...

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 ...

The fishing industry is facing a reckoning. Journalists and researchers in recent years have uncovered slavery, child labor and human trafficking on fishing vessels, spurring a global push to address human rights abuses on the high seas. However, what happens after the fish are caught has remained largely hidden. Women Fish Processing Activities. ©Conservation International. Photo by Sophak Sett According to researchers, millions of onshore fish workers — predominantly women — spend long hours cleaning and packaging fish in factories, maintaining community fish farms and often fi ...