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Free Online Course Explains the Role of Gender in Agricultural Development

A new online course developed for the Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab and featuring work from the Fish Innovation Lab introduces participants to the important role gender plays in agricultural development, including aquaculture and fisheries sectors. The course was developed by the Fish Innovation Lab’s gender and youth equity specialist, Kathleen Ragsdale, and colleague Mary Read-Wahidi.

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Quick Start Projects Yield Lessons for Gender-Responsive Aquaculture and Fisheries Activities

As part of its cross-cutting theme on Mainstreaming Gender Equity and Youth Inclusion, the Fish Innovation Lab works with subawardees to advance gender-responsive aquaculture and fisheries development. A new brief highlights successes and challenges shared by quick start projects in their responses to the Gender-Responsive Aquaculture/Fisheries Development Assessment (GRADA-FIL).

Image Alternative Text: Staff from Bangladesh’s Department of Fisheries Quality Control Laboratory and Institute of Public Health National Food Safety Laboratory participate in hands-on training.

Improving Capacity in Bangladesh to Detect Fecal Pathogens in Aquaculture

The Fish Innovation Lab project on Evaluation of Risk and Mitigation of Aquaculture Fecal Pathogens organized lectures and a hands-on training for eight participants from the Bangladesh Department of Fisheries Quality Control Laboratory and the National Food Safety Laboratory of the Government of Bangladesh’s Institute of Public Health. After receiving the training, the participants were excited to initiate activities in their own laboratories.

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Fish4Zambia Team Presents at 2021 Women and Gender in International Development Conference

Fish4Zambia team members Kathleen Ragsdale, Pamela Marinda, Mary Read-Wahidi, Lauren Pincus, Elin Torell, and Robert Kolbila presented a poster at the 2021 Women and Gender in International Development Conference held virtually from February 23-26, 2021.

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Meet the Risk Mitigation Specialist: Stephen Reichley

I wish people more fully understood the health benefits of eating fish and fish products for everyone – men, women, pregnant or nursing women, and children.

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Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Aquaculture Value Chains in Bangladesh

In low-income food-deficit countries, fish remains an essential source of animal protein, micronutrients, and omega-3 fatty acids, which are vital for human health.  It is, therefore, important that these countries, including Bangladesh, continue to have access to fish products.

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Emerging Technologies Improve Aquaculture Data Systems in Bangladesh

Like many low- and medium-income countries, Bangladesh struggles to maintain accurate official statistics on aquaculture production because of the costly and time-intensive nature of data collection as well as the industry’s rapid growth. The Fish Innovation Lab is working with partners in Bangladesh to use emerging technologies like remote sensing and machine learning to improve the speed, cost, and effectiveness of aquaculture data collection.

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Improving the Efficiency of Aquaculture Farms in Nigeria

Otomiewo was one of 40 fish-farming cluster heads who attended a series of meetings organized by WorldFish and the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish (Fish Innovation Lab) in September 2020 in Delta and Ogun states. The meetings introduced fish farmers to a Fish Innovation Lab project focused on improving efficiency in Nigeria’s aquaculture sector through lean production systems.

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Andrew Chisopo joins FishFirst! Zambia team

Andrew Chisopo has joined the FishFirst! Zambia team as a graduate intern. Chisopo will contribute to questionnaire programming, data cleaning, management and analysis, and production/presentation of results at scientific conferences, technical reports, and other publications.

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Results and Findings from SecureFish Team

The SecureFish team has released an executive summary of findings and results from a study of nutrition, especially in young children, in fisher families along the Kenya Coast. Results also indicate opportunities for improvements in fish value chain activities and sustainable fishing practices in the area.