Dried Fish Matters
Myanmar’s dried fish industry has faced unprecedented challenges in recent years. DFM supported A Myint Zu to pursue a Master of Science in Gender and Development Studies at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) under the supervision of Dr. Kyoko Kusakabe. Myint Zu completed her program in 2023. Her master’s thesis, Assessing the impacts of […]
Achieving a Master of Science degree is a significant milestone in academia. We are delighted to share the news that four Dried Fish Matters students, A Myint Zu, Nang Lun Kham Synt, Uon Sokmoly, and Myo Zaw Aung, have successfully completed their Master of Science in Gender and Development Studies from the Asian Institute of […]
Professor Dr. Mirza Taslima Sultana from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, has been awarded the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program 2023-24. This US State Department award is for a nine-month visiting scholar position in UC Berkeley’s Department of Gender and Women Studies. Dr. Taslima will be conducting research on “Gender-based Trolling and the Public: Impact and Activism in […]
Ben Belton and Shakuntala Thilsted are co-authors on two major new papers that assess the contexts that shape how fish and aquatic products influence nutritional and economic outcomes for producers and consumers in Bangladesh and Myanmar. The Bangladesh paper looks at the importance of integrated aquaculture for economic and nutrition security. The Myanmar paper (a […]
DFM is delighted to announce important new publications on the co-production of knowledge and just transitions in West Bengal’s dried fish sector and on the place of fish in nutrition transitions in Myanmar. Congratulations to the Ghosh, Mukherjee, Belton, Thilsted, and the other authors involved! Ghosh, Raktima, Jenia Mukherjee, Aishik Bandyopadhyay, Subhradeep Chatterjee, Anuradha Choudry, […]
We would like to highlight five recent articles published by members of Dried Fish Matters. Implications of utilization shifts of marine fish in India: a macro‑level empirical analysis is a collaboration between multiple members of DFM lead authored by Prasanna Surathkal. Accepted in December 2022, the article analyzes structural changes in aquaculture production that suggest […]
Dr. Mostafa Ali Reza Hossain – or Ranu, as he was known to many friends – was born on 16th March, 1967 in the district of Chapainawabgonj in Northwest Bangladesh. Mostafa completed a BSc in Fisheries from Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in 1990, and an MSc and PhD from the University of Stirling, UK, in […]
Our sincerest congratulations to Colleen Cranmer for her success in winning a SSHRC Doctorate Fellowship. Colleen will be conducting research as part of the Dried Fish Matters project in Cambodia. Her current working title is ” The Dried Fish Economy in the Tonlé Sap Region of Cambodia. Understanding How Women Contribute to Rural Livelihood Resiliency […]