Save the date: Air Center - Networking Friday on Women Empowerment in Aquaculture, March 4, 2022 1-3 PM UTC

Women and Girls in Science are Agents of Change. As an early celebration of the International Women’s Day, the Air Center is to host this dedicated Networking Friday with six brilliant women in aquaculture working on the most diverse sectors, from international NGO to business and industry as well as academia and network organizations.

Agenda

• 1:00 - Welcome and housekeeping rules by Marissa Brink-Hull, Post-doc researcher and Ocean Youth Ambassador, Univ Cape Town, South Africa.
• 1:05 - Keynote Speaker: Alice Ruhweza, WWF Africa Regional Director.
• 1:25 - Introduction to Women in Scottish Aquaculture (WISA) - Teresa Garzon, Chair of Women in Scottish Aquaculture (WISA), Scotland.
• 1:40 - Artisanal fisherwomen and the conservation of fisheries resources in the Amazon: empowerment, access to income, food security and resilience of artisanal fisheries - Edna Ferreira Alencar, Professor at Federal University of Pará, Brazil.
• 1:55 - Fishermen learn to Farm: How Maine's Lobstermen are leading the US seaweed industry by farming kelp in their off season - Liz Johndrow, Seaweed Supply & Advancement Manager, Atlantic Sea Farms, USA.
• 2:10 - Capacity Building, Women Empowerment and Mainstreaming into Aquaculture - Nurat Atoba, President of Lagos State Chapter of Catfish Farmers Association of Nigeria.
• 2:25 - Discussion.

Intervenants

• Alice Ruhweza, Africa Region Director @World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
• Tereza Garzon, Chair @Women in Scottish Aquaculture.
• Edna Ferreira Alencar, Professor @Federal University of Pará, Brazil.
• Liz Johndrow, Seaweed Supply and Advancement Manager @Atlantic Sea Farms.
• Nurat Omotayo Atoba, NIOMR-ASTRAL Focal Point @ASTRAL Project.
• Marissa Brink-Hull, Postdoctoral research fellow @Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cape Town.

More

• Register to the Zoom Webinar, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F0lgvkJxQbSMMudxT0EvTA
• Watch the live stream, https://youtu.be/PA7RIgRDzpU (first subscribe to Air Center Channel)
• All-Atlantic Pledge Women Empowerment in Sustainable Aquaculture: http://www.allatlantic2021.eu/pledge/women-empowerment-in-sustainable-aquaculture/
• ASTRAL project: https://www.astral-project.eu/
• More information here: https://www.aircentre.org/women-empowerment-in-aquaculture/

Some 2022 Networking Fridays

• February 18th, 2022, Downscaling Climate and Ocean Change to Services: Thresholds and Opportunities. https://www.aircentre.org/netfriday-ce2coast/
• January 14th, 2022, Marine Biodiversity Networking Fridays - Marine indicators for the Conventionn on Biological Diversity (CBD) https://www.aircentre.org/netfridays-marine-biodiversity-02/
• All the net Fridays https://www.aircentre.org/netfridays/

More information about the GMES and Africa Programme's Commitments to Women and Girls in Earth Observation.

• https://gmes4africa.blogspot.com/2022/02/day-of-women-and-girls-in-science-gmes-reply.html