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GAF8 Themes

Features of GAF 8 Conference Themes


Session Themes
  • Women’s voice and agency: Individual collectives, associations, platforms, institutions

  • Women’s work in aquaculture and fisheries: Human rights, labour rights, occupational safety and health, exploitation, conflict

  • Pandemics, disasters and shocks: Impacts on livelihood, occupations, habitat, resources, life

  • Gender justice & institutional roles: Policy regime, roles of civil society, academia andother formal and informal institutions at local, national and global levels

  • Understanding women’s rights: Tenure, resources, institutions, inputs, foods, nutrition

  • Women achievers: Success stories of women entrepreneurs in aquaculture and fisheries



Special Sessions
  • Special Session 1: Women and the Changing Tide: Breaking the Bias in Small-scale Fisheries and Aquaculture in the context of IYAFA 2022 organised by IYAFA, FAO of the UN

  • Special Session 2: Voices of Young Gender Researchers in Fisheries organised by ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education

  • Special Session 3: Gender and the Social Economy of Dried Fish organised by DFM Central

  • Special Session 4 : Upscaling community-based fisheries management (CBFM) and the gender dimensions in the Pacific organised by SPC

  • Special Session 5: The Gender Rhetoric in Global Seaweed Sector: Women’s Contribution in Seaweed Farming, Wild Harvest, Value Chain and Societal Development organised by ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute

  • Special Session 6: GAF 101 Training-Workshop: Gender Analysis in Aquaculture and Fisheries Social Science Research organised by AFSSRN of the AFS

  • Special Session 7: 'Women in fisheries: Shared experiences' organised by ICSF, Chennai

  • Special Session 8: Rupture, Gendered Adaptation and the Social Economy of Small-Scale Fisheries in the Indian Ocean organised by Indian Ocean Collaboratory on Small Scale Fisheries

  • Special Session 9: Working towards closing the gender data gap in small-scale fisheries with insights from the Illuminating Hidden Harvests Project organised by IHH Project of FAO of the UN, Duke Univeristy & WorldFish



Special Art Event
  • 'Waves of Art' organised by BOBP-IGO, Arnawaz Charities of Cholamandal Artist's Village, Chennai

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Parallel Events
  • Parallel Event 1: Interventions for control of AMR: Harnessing one health knowledge organised by ICAR-CIFT and SOFTI

  • Parallel Event 2: Small-scale Fisheries: its global and regional Significance organised by IYAFA and ICAR-CIFT