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 […]
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Reports on our recent webinars, dried fish industry of Malvan, Karnataka research, and more!
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Dried Fish in a Covid-19 world
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 […]
The Dakshin Foundation and the Dried Fish Matters (DFM) project jointly conducted a pilot study on the dried fish sector at Malvan, Maharashtra, to assess the structure, supply chain and trends of the dried fish economy, and its possible links with the fishmeal industry. Fish caught in Malvan has significantly declined in the past decade, […]
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Extensions of the Scoping Research in India
Research in India has been extended to four new states. Dr. Amalendu Jyothishi, Dr. Priya Gupta, and Dr. Ramachandran Bhatta will lead scoping research in Karnataka. Mr. Ramachandrudu Barigela will lead a scoping research team in Mizoram and Manipur. Ms. Trisha Gupta, Mr. Ishaan Khot, and Dr. Naveen Namboothri of the Dakshin Foundation will lead […]
DFM Cambodia is the first team to have completed its scoping research.
More than 20 participants from all three Indian research teams attended a scoping training workshop at the Hotel Daspalla Executive Court in Visakhaptatnam from December 9-11, 2019. The meeting was very productive in terms of generating constructive discussion about scoping methods and in terms of team building. As with the Cox’s Bazar meeting in February, the workshop was organized with two days of methods discussions sandwiching a middle field day.