Taking stock of our achievements at the midpoint of the Dried Fish Matters Partnership Grant
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Two research teams in Bangladesh, from Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) and Sher-E-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU), have separately developed Chanacur (popular snacks), Biscuits and energy bars from dried fish. The BAU team use kechki fish (Corica Soborna), a small indigenous fish with high nutrient content, to make Chanacur and Bars, whereas the SAU team uses Panga […]
A recent paper in Maritime Studies by Madu Galappaththi (DFM student), Andrea M. Collins, Derek Armitage, and Prateep Nayak (DFM Co-Investigator) explores gender relations in dried fish value chains through the lens of social wellbeing and intersectionality.
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Living on the edge
The District Fishermen’s Youth Welfare Association (DFYWA), a civil society member of the Dried Fish Matters partnership, has recently released the report “Living on the edge: Perspectives of the small-scale women fish processors of northern coastal Andhra Pradesh, India”. The report is now available for download from DFM.
Alexia Pigeault, student in the International Master of Science in Marine Biological Resources joint European Master’s program (IMBRSea), recently completed her thesis on communication in the Dried Fish Matters project supervised by Prof. Fabiana Li.
Join us Friday, July 2 for the closing keynote event of the MARE 2021 Conference. Nourishing Minds: A Conversation with 2021 World Food Prize Laureate and Global Lead, Nutrition and Public Health, WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted This event will be chaired by Dried Fish Matters Project Director Derek Johnson and Prof. Maarten Bavinck of […]
The Dried Fish Matters project owes a deep debt to World Food Prize 2021 Laureate and DFM Collaborator Shakuntala H. Thilsted, whose pioneering work on dried fish and food & nutrition security has inspired our work in South and South-East Asia.
The Dried Fish Matters project will be hosting a series of linked roundtables at the MARE 2021 Conference, entitled Strengthening connections through research on dried fish social economies in Asia (June 29, June 30, and July 1), as well as joint panels with @V2VPartnership and with Fish4Food and @SmallFishFood. Full details on the Dried Fish […]