Events
Upcoming Events
Our Ocean Conference 2019
The ocean is essential to life on earth. For humans, it provides food, jobs, energy and communication highways. The ocean helps regulate our climate, controls weather patterns and produces oxygen for us to breathe. However, today the ocean is under threat from the effects of climate change, over-...
Ecological intensification: A new paragon for sustainable aquaculture
The radical shift from traditional practices of Asian aquaculture toward intensified production systems is a major trend and the sustainability of these intensified systems needs to be questioned. Ecological intensification could be a rational alternative to increase aquaculture production by...
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...
FAO Global Conference on Aquaculture in 2020
In1976, FAO held its first global conference on aquaculture in Kyoto, Japan, triggering the recognition of aquaculture as a significant food production sector and exploring opportunities for the development of the sector. This was followed by the global conferences “Aquaculture in the Third...
Past Events
FISH meeting: 10th Management Committee (MC) meeting
The FISH Management Committee, chaired by Dr. Michael Phillips, FISH Director and MC Chair also WorldFish Director, Aquaculture and Fisheries Sciences and the meeting will be gathering scientists, practitioners and representatives from lead partners. FISH Management Committee from 16 to 18 October...
Big Data in Agriculture Convention 2019
The 2019 Big Data in Agriculture Convention will kick-off this year with the theme TRUST: Humans, Machines & Ecosystems from 16 to 18 October 2019 . The three-course day will be taking place at The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ( ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India...
CFS 46: Committee on World Food Security
Making a Difference in Food Security and Nutrition The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition for all. The committee act as a platform for global...
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...
FISH Science Week 2019
We are ready for what's shaping up to be an exciting Science Week at WorldFish. This event promises four action-packed days of stimulating presentations and panel discussions around sharing knowledge and learning on key innovations that stemmed from our research work with partners in 2019. More...
FISH Science Week 2019: Fish for Thought
The current food system is responsible for producing one-fifth of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, losing approximately one-third of edible food in production, inabilities access to healthy and fresh food sources and are causing one-third of the world's land degradation. Furthermore, an...
GIZ AquaLINC Project Final Workshop
In Bangladesh, the aquaculture production has grown rapidly with the production of fish from aquaculture in 2017-2018 being 24.5 lakh MT, accounting for 56% of total fish production. Within the aquaculture sector, the production of tilapia has grown rapidly from 15,000 MT in 2006-2007 to, 3.85 lakh...
WorldFish-NRDC Fisheries and Aquaculture Programme Promotion Seminar
Zambia currently has a high rate of youth unemployment. There are also noticeable disparities between men and women in the labor force, especially a lack of women formally working in the fisheries sector who have received fisheries skills training. The NRDC Fisheries and Aquaculture programme...
World Seafood Congress: Keynote Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 11 September 2019, on the final day of World Seafood Congress, WorldFish will be participating in The Great Debate: Critical Decisions for Future Success . Dr. Philippa Cohen and Dr. Cynthia McDougall will join the panel of keynote speakers to discuss on how to mitigate the...
World Seafood Congress: WorldFish Parallel Session
On the second day of the World Seafood Congress, 10 September 2019, Tuesday, the Multi-regional perspectives for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals s ession will be chaired and organized by WorldFish, an international non-profit research organization working in Africa, Asia and the...
World Seafood Congress: WorldFish Keynote Session
Save the date! The World Seafood Congress (WSC) - first to be held in Asia - is holding the conference from 9 to 11 September 2019. To navigate the scientific session, WSC 2019 are partnering with WorldFish , the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ), Bogor University ( FFMS-IPB & CCMRS-IPB ),...
World Seafood Congress: WorldFish Networking Pre-Congress Workshop
The World Seafood Congress (WSC) 2019 invites participants from all over the world to attend this biannual global event which is scheduled to be held on 9-11 September 2019 in Penang, Malaysia. On Sunday, 8 September 2019, WorldFish will be organizing and hosting a pre-congress workshop at...