The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has released the latest edition of Yemaya, its newsletter on gender and fisheries.
Yemaya No. 62, dated December 2020, features articles from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Ghana, Mexco and the conversation between Meryl Williams, Danika Klieber and Kate Bevitt.
The article from Bangladesh by Md. Mujibul Haque Munir reveals that women in Bangladesh’s coastal fishing continue to remain largely unrecognized and that urgent steps are needed to rectify this situation.
The article from Myanmar by Angela Lentisco looks at the challenge of FAO’s FishAdapt project in strengthening the adaptive capacity and resilience of fisheries -and aquaculture dependent livelihoods and limited opportunity to work as wage labour in the commercial fishing business.
The article from Ghana by Naana Nkansah Agyekum looks at the gradual transformation of the ahotor oven which represents an improvement on the widely used chorkor smoke. The ahotor oven is energy efficient and helps women fish processors reduce the quantity of firewood in smoking fish.
The conversation between Kate Bevitt, Danika Kleiber and Meryl Williams focuses on the collaborative study, Illuminating Hidden Harvests. The conversation highlights the under recognition and under reporting of women’s work.
Inés López-Ercilla, Araceli Acevedo-Rosas and Francisco Fernández, in their article on Mexico, argue that, as in other countries, fishing communities is grappling with the challenge of maintaining sustainable practices during the pandemic.
The article on gender sensitive biodiversity framework by Vivienne Solis argues that global biodiversity goals must recognize the vital contributions made by women and girls, particularly from indigenous and local communities.
The Profile column looks at how Jharna Acharya has dedicated her life towards the social welfare of the poor and the deprived. Shilpa Nandy shows us that how Jharna is leading the movements and struggles of women fishers in West Bengal, India.
The Milestones column by Meryl Williams looks at what are the significant developments in support of gender equity and equality that took place in 2020 and opines that many fisheries standards and certification systems pay only perfunctory attention to gender equality.
The What’s New, Webby? Column, Vandana Menon, presents the details of a new gender report, Gender Inequality and the COVID-19 crisis: A Human Development Perspective, which examines the gender differentiated impacts of the COVID-19 crisis through sex-disaggregated data.
Vishakha Gpta, in the Yemaya Recommends section, points out that the book, Fisherwomen by Craig Easton shows that how in Easton’s portfolio we can see the support and strength that the fisherwomen share with each other across different geographies and space.
The current issue of Yemaya also carries the ever-popular cartoon strip, “Yemaya Mama”(Mama’s vaccine policy!).
Yemaya No. 62, dated December 2020, can be accessed at: https://demo2.icsf.net/en/yemaya/article/EN/62.html?limitstart=0%20
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