Events
Upcoming Events
World Water Week
Water for society: Including all World Water Week is organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and takes place in Stockholm, Sweden on an annual basis. It has been the focal point for global water issues since 1991. It is foremost a collaborative learning experience, providing...
3rd World Irrigation Forum
The triennial World Irrigation Forum (WIF) aims to bring together all the stakeholders involved in irrigation of multi-disciplines and all scales, including the policy makers, experts, research institutions, non-governmental organizations and farmers. It provide a platform for the world irrigation...
FISH events: Towards resilient and equitable small-scale fisheries
In collaboration with the Oak Foundation, WorldFish will be hosting Towards resilient and equitable smallscale fisheries meeting from 3rd to 5th September 2019 in WorldFish headquarters, Penang. The event is supported by a collaboration between the Oak Foundation and WorldFish through the CGIAR...
World Seafood Congress 2019
Seafood Supply Chains of the Future: Innovation. Responsibility. Sustainability In September 2019, WorldFish will be partnering with Penang Institute and other partners to co-hosting the World Seafood Congress (WSC) 2019. The conference will study and discuss aspects of innovation, responsibility...
5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture 2019
Transforming food systems under a changing climate Agricultural development can be slow and uneven, often not reaching the people who are most vulnerable and in pockets of deep, entrenched poverty. It is further hindered by climate change, which disproportionally affects agriculture and threatens...
Big Data in Agriculture Convention 2019
TRUST: Humans, Machines & Ecosystems Building resilient global food security requires us to navigate a complex net of interactions between the biosphere, economy, technology, and society. Machines and machine-to-machine systems shape and accelerate our social and economic lives, even as...
Our Ocean Conference 2019
Learning, Sharing, Acting The oceans are under threat from the effects of climate change, pollution, loss of biodiversity and unsustainable use. Our future depends on clean and healthy oceans, where production and protection go hand in hand. At the sixth Our Ocean conference, to be held in Oslo in...
WorldFish @ external events: FAO International Symposium on Fisheries Sustainability
Strengthening The Science-Policy Nexus Marine and inland fisheries today are an important crossroads. They make a crucial and growing contribution to food, nutrition and livelihood security. Yet, despite significant successes, there is a decreasing overall trend in the proportion of marine fish...
Past Events
Approaches to Genetic Improvement of Fish in Africa Workshop
Globally, approximately 800 million people depend on fisheries and aquaculture for their livelihoods. Fish supply-demand research suggests that aquaculture production may need to double by 2030 to meet the world’s growing demand, and need, for a supply of affordable, safe and nutritious fish...
Special events: Official visit by Kenya High Commissioner
His Excellency Francis N. Muhoro , Kenyan High Commissioner will be visiting WorldFish Headquarters in Penang, Malaysia on Wednesday, 14 August 2019. The visit is part of His Excellency Francis N. Muhoro effort to have a discussion on a number of areas of interest particularly the blue economy that...
2nd Timor-Leste National Aquaculture Forum
On 8 August 2019, WorldFish in partnership with Government of Timor-Leste is convening 2nd Timor-Leste National Aquaculture Forum, with the objective to provide a common platform for stakeholders to share their research and development experiences and identify opportunities for fostering...
Food for Thought: Constructing a next generation oceanic information system
Taiwan is an island with a thriving fishing industry. Prior to the year 2015, fisheries systems in Taiwan, apart from being outdated, are dispersed across different administrative groups making management and data verification very time-consuming. This resulted in Taiwan being issued with a “yellow...
The Economist Feeding the Future
How much is enough? The United Nations predicts that by 2050 the global population will reach around 9.7 billion. Adequately feeding such a large number of humans demands a huge boost in food production. Changes in diet, climate and demography will pose challenges to food security . Increasingly...
National Fish Week Bangladesh 2019
The 27th “National Fish Week-2019 is being observed across Bangladesh 18-24 July 2019. This special week entirely dedicated to fish is an existing opportunity to raise awareness and encourage individuals and fish farming communities to practice sustainable fish farming, better-manage natural...
Pan-African Workshop on Strengthening Organizational Structures of Non-State Actors for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in Africa
The workshop aims to strengthen non-state actor (NSA) platforms and their representation at regional and global levels for sustainable small-scale fisheries in Africa. Bringing together 40 participants—including non-state actors, other small-scale fisheries representatives and stakeholders, and...
Food for Thought: Triple-win aquaculture for economic, social, and environmental benefits
This talk seeks to address a key challenge in aquaculture development policies, which is the paradox of economic efficiency, social considerations, and environmental conservation. By examining data obtained from a household survey in Vietnam, Dr. Chu's study finds that mangrove aquaculture, if...
Food for Thought: Integration of industry chain, external financing and distribution of cooperative residual: analysis on Yanghe village economic community
The shortage of funds and financing difficulties are the general challenges faced in the rapid development of fisheries industry. This talk will focus on the Yanghe village economic community as a case study, in exploring how leading enterprises develop new financing channels and innovative...
FISH meeting: 9th Independent Steering Committee (ISC) meeting
Ninth Independent Steering Committee Meeting The Independent Steering Committee is a governing body that reports directly to the WorldFish Board of Trustees on the performance of the FISH program. Among the many objectives of the ISC committees is to respond to priority issues and develop...
MARE People and the Sea Conference X
Theme: learning from the past, imagining the future The Centre for Maritime Research (MARE) is preparing its 10th international People and the Sea Conference that will take place in the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 24-28 June 2019. In full awareness of the major ongoing changes in...
Special events: WorldFish and FUTA sign MoU on accelerating the progress of research in aquaculture and fisheries
The signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between WorldFish and Federal University of Technology, Akure took place on the 26 June 2019 in Nigeria. The MoU signing ceremony was signed by Prof. Joseph Fuwape, FUTA Vice Chancellor and Dr. Johnstone Gareth , WorldFish Director...