Talking about sustainable environment, education and development in southeast Madagascar. New articles every week from our team!
Whilst women make up a considerable amount of the fisheries sector workforce, gender labour divisions are still largely limiting them to define set of undervalued roles. See the methods SEED are using to change the tide on these barriers in rural southeast Madagascar.
Noëlle discusses with beekeeping technicans Fidson and Pierros the challenges local beekeepers are facing and how they provide support in their communities.
Quinn highlights the resources SEED Madagascar is supplying to local fishers in the face of climate change and recovery from the COVID-19 economic slump.
Beth takes a look at the illustrated lobster fishery management handbook she helped to create, exploring the art of communication in the context of low literacy and limited resources.
To mark International Day of Cooperatives, Polly interviews Paula, who works with both the Stitch Sainte Luce Cooperative, and our traditional weaving project, Mahampy.
For World Oceans Day, we take a look beneath the surface of the Sainte Luce and Elodrato fisheries, investigating the role of elasmobranch (shark and ray) sales in livelihoods.
For World Menstrual Hygiene Day, we interview Madame Bertholine, President of one of the Mahampy sub-cooperatives, about the menstrual hygiene management (MHM) pilot project.
Madagascar is experiencing food insecurity caused by drought and climate change. But what effect does deforestation have on beekeeping, and how does this compound food insecurity?
Over 48 days, data collectors in Sainte Luce and Elodrato have recorded 233 individual elasmobranchs landed - 140 sharks and 93 rays! This work funded by the Darwin Initiative is an important part of understanding the importance of the shark and ray fishery to local communities. But what does this have to do with SEED's crops and Sakondry work? Find out in this blog post.
With Project Mahampy activities on hold due to the pandemic, SEED have been working with the Weavers’ Cooperative on a new menstrual hygiene project. With today being International Women’s Day, we could think of no better time to take a look back at the women’s achievements over the past three months!