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How small fishers in Kerala's Poonthura benefited from COVID-19 time auction system
Marine fishing in India has largely come to a standstill in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak. In Kerala, the government has banned operation of mechanised boats. But small-scale beach landing crafts are allowed to ensure fishers' sustenance and food security needs of the society. This relaxation is...
Covid-19: Hitting rural farming
What needs to be done for fish, poultry, and dairy farmers The issue of food and nutrition security has come to the fore in Bangladesh as the agricultural production systems have been seriously disrupted by the on-going coronavirus crisis. In this context, an expert discussion was held on the...
Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates for May: India
The nationwide lockdown, characterized by a very strict confinement period, ended on May 17th. Prime Minister Modi qualified the next stage as a “lockdown 4.0”, stating it would be focused on battling the disease in combination with a slow easing of measures. These could vary per state and number...
Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates for May: Nigeria
The lockdown in place since March 30th was relaxed in the second week of May in Abuja and Lagos, and was programmed to gradually ease over the next six weeks. This move was aimed at helping economic recovery, but fears of a second wave have been looming and the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)...
Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates for May: Myanmar
Lockdown measures were relaxed from May 15th and highway public transportation was set to resume gradually. Despite this, a semi-lockdown was extended in the ten most affected townships of Yangon. In Yangon’s Yankin township, residents decided to take matters into their own hands and institute a...
Dried fish in a COVID-19 world
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...
Youth in fisheries, aquaculture and value chains: A study and foundation for building back better
As impacts of the global pandemic COVID-19 continue to spread, young people face particular challenges, with having to worry about the health of their families, their workplaces or schools closing, and access to food and other necessities. The CGIAR Research Program on Fish in Agri-Food Systems (...
Integrating fish conservation with water sanitation during COVID-19 in Cambodia
In rural Cambodia, many households are burdened with having to collect and treat their own drinking water. The USAID-supported and WorldFish-led Feed the Future Cambodia Rice Field Fisheries II (RFF II) project has found an innovative way to integrate fish conservation research with improving...
IFPRI, IRRI, CIMMYT, WorldFish make joint call for measures to avert risk to food system
The CGIAR Centres commend Bangladesh’s response to contain Covid-19 spread, call for ensuring transportation of food and farm inputs World’s leading food security think-tank and research centres have recommended Bangladesh to ensure transportation of food from rural to urban areas and the flow of...
Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: Nigeria
More than 25 million residents in Abuja, Lagos, and Ogun states were put under federal lockdown on March 30th which was later extended to April 14th. Other states were put under partial-lockdown and introduced their own restrictions including a ban on large gatherings and events . On April 28th,...
Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: Egypt
Egypt enacted measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the end of March including closing airports, gyms, religious institutions, schools and restaurants. A curfew was also instated from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. and non-essential shops were required to close at 5 p.m. The curfew was eased at the...
Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: India
On March 25th India initiated a strict 21-day lockdown, later extended until May 3rd and May 17th. Lockdown measures included school closures, border closure, travel bans, bans on gatherings, and bans on all transportation services except for essential goods. This initial lockdown was assessed as...