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GAF5Global Symposium
By Ramya Rajagopalan (ramya.rajagopalan@gmail.com), Programme Associate, ICSF
GAF5 or the 5th Global Symposium on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries (http://genderaquafish.org/gaf5-2014-lucknow-india/themes/) to be held at Lucknow, India, during 12-15 November, 2014, aims to be a vital platform for examining the progress that has been made towards achieving gender equality in aquaculture and fisheries.
The Symposium will consist of plenary addresses, workshops involving grassroots gender/women’s groups representatives, oral and poster presentations, a national session, a film screening, a panel discussion and more. The Symposium builds on the earlier four successful Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries symposia, and on two Women in Fisheries symposia conducted in conjunction with the Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forums. There are five themes for the symposium including: Women fishers and climate change, including natural disasters; Methods and approaches in gender planning and budgeting; Gender in sustainability management; Global innovationslocal solutions towards sustainable livelihoods for women fishers; including promotion of entrepreneurship and business skills of women fishers in small scale fish value chains, besides an open theme.
This is the first time that an Asian Fisheries Society GAF event will be held in conjunction with the Indian Fisheries Forum, the 10th IFF (http://10ifaf.in/).
