Chikondi Manyungwa, 2013 fellow, wins the Rosemary Firth Award at the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) Conference

Chikondi Manyungwa, from Malawi, graduated from the UNU-GEST programme in 2013. She won the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Award from UNU-GEST for the best final assignment, but she wrote a project proposal on Improved Fish Smoking and Loss Reduction among the Lake Malawi Chikombe Fishing Community.

Currently, Chikondi is conducting her PhD at the University of the Western Cape, in South Africa. In July of 2016, Chikondi has attended the IIFET (International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade) Conference.

The 18th IIFET Conference, that took place in Scotland, reunited scholars, specialists and a broader audience around the main theme ‘‘Challenging new frontiers in the global seafood sector – a Northern Enlightenment‘‘, to discuss topics such as: aquaculture economics; economics of commercial and recreational fisheries; seafood markets; trade and consumption; seafood processing and logistics; managing marine ecosystems and competing uses, among others.

At the IIFET, Chikondi was awarded the Rosemary Firth Award as the best presenter in a special session that focused on Gender. This section reunited several gender researchers to discuss tools, technologies, and processes in gender research, especially towards fisheries and aquaculture. Chikondi contributed to the discussion by bringing the preliminary results of her PhD research on the investigation of Women and Fish Value Chain Governance in Malawi. Chikondi transmitted the need of providing further opportunities and support to women in the fisheries sectors in Malawi and abroad, in order to further the achievement of women‘s empowerment and gender equality in the sector. 

The UNU-GEST team would like to congratulate Chikondi for this achievement and wish her all the best in her future endeavours.  

 

 

 

Chikondi (to the left) accepts

her award at the Conference