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REMINDER - The Sixth Session of AgTalks will take place tomorrow, 10 December 2015, from 10.00 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Italian Conference Room at IFAD Headquarters. 

AgTalks presents the latest thinking, trends and research on policies and innovations in small-scale farming. A welcome coffee will be offered at 9.30 a.m.

Kindly R.S.V.P. by e-mail to protocol@ifad.org. 

AgTalks- Session 6

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) invites you to the Sixth Session of AgTalks on 10 December 2015, from 10.00 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Italian Conference Room, IFAD Headquarters, Rome, Italy. AgTalks presents the latest thinking, trends and research on policies and innovations in small-scale farming. A welcome coffee will be offered at 9.30 a.m.

Fishing – A man's world?

AgTalks 6 opens a discussion on a critical question on fisheries and aquaculture sector – Is it a man's world? Fisheries and aquaculture play an important role in addressing global poverty, nutrition  and food insecurity. The sector employs about 60 million people worldwide, and over 85 per cent of these are in Asia and 10 per cent in Africa.

The AgTalks 6 session will address small fish, community engagement, the role of technology, and the place women hold in this very important sector.

Speakers:

Dr Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez

Dr Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez is a human ecologist with a strong background in ecology and social sciences. She has been working on small-scale fisheries, as well as coastal fisheries in tropical developing countries for more than a decade. Dr Schwerdtner Máñez leads the working group “Gendered Seas”, studying the role of women and men in the exploitation of marine resources. She has published a number of articles on a number of topics including marine resource exploitation, small-scale fishing, sustainability, and ecosystem services.

Ranjitha Puskur

Ranjitha Puskur, an agricultural socio-economist, is the senior policy advisor at WorldFish and has led the organization's gender research program. She has 16 years of experience in Research for Development (R4D) in Africa, Asia and Pacific. Her professional interests and experience are in agricultural innovation systems, integrated agricultural research for development (IAR4D), gender, agricultural research policy and, value chains. She won the Jawahar Lal Nehru prize, instituted by the Government of India, for outstanding research in Agricultural Economics.

Richard Abila

Richard Abila is the Senior Technical Specialist for Fisheries and Aquaculture in IFAD. Abila has over 20 years of experience in fisheries research, management and development. Most of his work experience has been on small scale fisheries and aquaculture systems, working with national, regional and international projects and programmes supported by governments and some of the leading international development partners.

 
Dr Susana V Siar

Dr Susana V. Siar is from the Philippines and a Fishery Industry Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. She is a social scientist and has been working in the field of fisheries and aquaculture for the past 25 years. Before joining FAO in 2005, she worked briefly with the WorldFish Center in Penang, Malaysia, and before that, was with the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center in Iloilo, Philippines for 15 years.

 
Participants are encouraged to share their ideas, views and insights via social media channels using the #agtalks hashtag.

 
R.S.V.P. by e-mail to protocol@ifad.org by 4 December 2015.