Fisheries and aquaculture contribute to livelihoods for 800 million people and provide 3.1 billion people with 20% of their animal protein. Working with national governments and partners, FISH focuses on improving the productivity of fisheries and aquaculture to reduce poverty and improve food and nutrition security.
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Climate-smart innovations can boost aquatic food systems productivity in Bangladesh, says climate change expert
Climate-smart innovations are urgently needed to help poor and vulnerable aquatic food system actors withstand climate-shocks in Bangladesh, said WorldFish climate change researcher Peerzadi Rumana Hossain at a virtual roundtable in late August. As an affordable source of protein, fish and other...
Field Notes: Boosting small-scale aquaculture productivity in inland Myanmar
Myanmar is one of the largest fish producers in the world. The country ranks among the largest global inland aquaculture producers. With increased understanding and investment in sustainable development, Myanmar’s aquaculture sector has the potential to reduce poverty and contribute to national...
Aquatic Foods: Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together.
As we mark the triple occasion of the International Day of Rural Women (October 15th), World Food Day (October 16th), and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17th), we join the global call to action for cooperation and solidarity to help the most vulnerable to recover from...
The Failing Food Systems: Can Aquatic Foods Turn the Tide?
Currently, 2 billion people around the world lack access to diverse, nutritious, and safe diets that can sustain healthy, active lives. A number that is expected to increase sharply because of COVID-19 . These numbers represent our unhealthy and unsustainable global food systems. Malnutrition, both...
Ten strategies for research quality in distance research during COVID-19 and future food system shocks
Food systems are faced with increasingly difficult challenges from COVID-19 and future climate, socioeconomic, health and other shocks. To build forward better from these shocks, effective responses are needed. These responses rely on accurate and timely data and evidence on the multifaceted...
Effective research during COVID-19 and other food system shocks: Here’s 10 tips
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the market, trade and supply chains limiting food accessibility and affordability. This has been felt hardest in low- and middle-income countries already facing food insecurity. With an additional 130 million people at risk of life-threatening hunger, research...
Strong Women, Strong Natio
Innovative research in the Southeast Asian island nation of Timor-Leste has obtained data to help close the gender gap and provide food security for the local community. In October 2018, Leocaldia de Araujo, a fisherwoman from a village of 300 people at the northern tip of TimorLeste’s Atauro...
Resilient, inclusive aquatic foods systems key to tackling climate change and COVID-19, say researchers
Employing a systems approach to build the resilience of all actors in aquatic food systems is essential to tackle the double-threat of climate change and COVID-19, said experts during a virtual dialogue hosted by WorldFish. Aquatic foods play an important role as an affordable protein for nutrition...
WorldFish’s Shakuntala Thilsted joins experts to lead UN Food System Summit
WorldFish’s Program Leader for Value Chains and Nutrition Shakuntala Thilsted was appointed a top role at the UN Food Systems Summit 2021. Thilsted was named a Vice-chair of the summit's Advancing Equitable Livelihoods Action Track by the Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit Agnes...
Diving into diverse human-ocean relationships bares the base of a fair blue economy
We are all ocean people, whether we live by the sea or not. Life on our planet arose from the oceans and over time the deep relations between humans and the sea have shaped our histories and cultures. Covering over seventy percent of the Earth’s surface, oceans join us together while at the same...
World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Challenge 2020
The World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Challenge 2020 is an opportunity to receive equity-free funding, mentorship from industry experts, and access to the world’s largest humanitarian organization. Deadline: 11:59 pm (CET) & Monday , 14 September 2020 Click here to apply The COVID-19...
Annual Report 2019
WorldFish had a remarkable year in 2019 developing and scaling scientific innovations that support the sustainable transformation of food systems with fish and other aquatic foods for the benefit of people and the planet. Access the report online.