المنتدى العالمي المعني بالأمن الغذائي والتغذية

Dear Colleagues,

Sorry I didn't contribute before. I'm now attaching a recent publication I prepared for FAO on Gender Inequalities in Fish Value Chains.

The relevant points in this publication on Fish VCs for this HLPE paper on water are:

1. Pollution: agro-chemical pollution that gets into the rivers/fish ponds and kills fish or makes them unsafe to eat (see, for example, Box 3 and section 1.2 first para), industrial pollution damaging coastal and inland water for fish (section 1.2 para 7) and pollution from aquaculture that gets into the water table, affects/contaminates agriculture, and health/safety (section 2.2.2)

2. Women's poor access rights to ponds for aquaculture (section 2.2.1)

3. Women's time poverty (including their need to provision the household (plus animals etc) in water - often at long distance - and often not clean/safe either.  The time they spend fetching water reduces their time/energy for productive activities, child care (with negative impacts on child nutrition, health, well being) etc.

Best wishes,

Jennie

Jennie Dey de Pryck Ph.D.

Senior Gender Adviser

Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)

Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP)