For many of the most vulnerable peoples of the South and Southeast Asia region, dried fish is of vital nutritional, economic, social, and cultural importance.
Despite this, the diverse and complex economy that produces and distributes dried fish, and the threats to it, are all but invisible in research and policy.
The Dried Fish Matters project brings a network of interdisciplinary research teams in six countries to address this major oversight.
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The DFM Zotero library is our main platform for collecting, cataloguing, sharing, citing, and publishing resources connected with the dried fish economy. The library includes over 3000 publications related to dried fish.