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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.

Mahfuzar Rahman (Bangladesh/Canada) and Sayeed Ferdous (Bangladesh) explore the fish drying areas at Cox’s Bazar as part of a Scoping Research exploratory/training exercise

We are excited to announce the Dried Fish Matters partnership, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

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.

Selling dried fish in Cambodia. McKay Savage via Wikimedia Commons

The Dried Fish Matters project, based at the University of Manitoba in Canada, brings an interdisciplinary team to address this major oversight.

Please visit our About page for details.

This research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and implemented at the Department of Anthropology, The University of Manitoba.