Dried Fish Matters
Congratulations to Shakuntala Thilsted on winning this year’s Arrell Global Food Innovation Award! The Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards, worth $100,000 each, recognize global excellence in food innovation and community impact. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted has focused on local, culturally food appropriate system solutions that strengthen the ways communities produce, supply, cook, and eat diverse and nutritious foods.
The government of Odisha State, India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with WorldFish for a pilot program that will include dried fish in a supplementary nutrition program for children, pregnant and nursing women, and adolescent girls. The MOU also indicates a commitment to provide training to 10 Women Self Help Groups (WSHGs) on […]
Reports on our recent webinars, dried fish industry of Malvan, Karnataka research, and more!
This past quarter we marked the beginning of the Dried Fish Matters (DFM) Scoping Research phase, with a four-day workshop in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh held from February 20 to 25.
Attended by leaders of the DFM country and sub-country research teams, the workshop succeeded in its goals of creating synergies and building shared research approaches across our research teams in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Thailand.
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, based at the University of Manitoba in Canada, brings an interdisciplinary team to address this major oversight.