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 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 latest issue University of Manitoba student newspaper The Manitoban features an interview with DFM Project Director Derek Johnson, who comments on the importance of small/dried fish and how DFM has managed to thrive despite COVID-19 lockdowns.
Please follow the link below to download a copy of our most recent newsletter. This edition includes information on the following topics: Status of field research DFM Students Reports and working papers Kerala initial scoping report Sri Lanka desk studies TBTI Transdisciplinarity course Zotero library and literature reviews Upcoming Small Fish Seminar PhD defense by […]
Small and low-cost fish, like sardines and mackerel, are recognized as being rich in micronutrients. They play an important role in preventing malnutrition of poor and undernourished people in developing countries. In combination with researchers from four ongoing projects in Africa and Asia, FAO organized a virtual seminar on the contribution of small, low-cost fish to food security on February 15th and 16th, 2021.
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!
Derek Johnson, Shakuntala Thilsted, Ben Belton The Covid-19 pandemic illustrates powerfully and directly the degree to which globalization has created a world of interconnection. We are all struggling with the effects of the virus, but how well we are buffered in our struggles against those impacts varies dramatically by social and geographical position. The crisis […]