| Follow us: |
 |
 |
 |
 |
News and Press
Tuesday, 6th November 2012
The latest blog from WorldFish Director General, Stephen Hall, on his blog Expiscor.
For any organization trying to decide how best to achieve development impact, a good place to start is with a ‘Theory of Change’, or ToC. Formally defined as “a statement of the interconnected causal pathways that describe the types of interventions that bring about desired outcomes”, a ToC can be more...
Friday, 2nd November 2012
How and where we allocate freshwater in an environment of increasing demand, and declining quality and availability is a major societal challenge.
The needs of local communities that are affected by dam construction and water abstraction are often similar to that of biodiversity. Yet, they are frequently superseded by the necessity to meet national demands for power, food and...
Friday, 2nd November 2012
A story of partnership from WorldFish, for the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) theme P - Partnerships.
Marketing fish, Ghana. Photo by Cambria Finegold, 2010
In Ghana, the Volta River basin reaches across over half of Ghana’s countryside. Lake Volta, the world’s largest (by surface) man-made lake, is the centerpiece of both the Volta...
Thursday, 1st November 2012
A story of partnership from WorldFish, for the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) theme P - Partnerships.
Engineer Mohammed Gouda, private sector aquaculture farmer, Fayoum, Egypt. Photo by Samuel Stacey, 2012
Addressing the problems of poverty and malnutrition in low-income communities is usually the preserve of government agencies...
Thursday, 1st November 2012
A story of partnership from WorldFish for the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) theme P - Partnerships.
Aquatic Agricultural Systems are made up of fisheries, livestock keeping and other income activities on the Barotse Floodplain. Livestock on the Zambezi, Barotse Floodplain. Photo by Georgina Smith, 2012.
In Zambia, the Zambezi...
Thursday, 1st November 2012
Dr. Stephen Hall speaks to us from GCARD and his expectations of the conference; partnership, thinking with small-holder famers and gender issues for agricultural development.
Your browser does not support the audio element.
Podcast not streaming? Download podcast
Wednesday, 31st October 2012
By Paula Kantor, Ranjitha Puskur and Miranda Morgan
Paula Kantor and Ranjitha Puskur are Senior Scientists, and Miranda Morgan is a Post Doctoral Fellow at WorldFish in Penang, Malaysia. They are leading WorldFish’s efforts to integrate gender in its CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems.
River fisheries, Africa. Photo by Chris Bene, 2003
If...
Monday, 29th October 2012
(WNN/SD) Penang, MALAYSIA, ASIA: Productivity losses due to the agriculture ”gender gap” are straining global economies, a conference has heard. This was the consensus of gender scientists and agricultural researchers at a workshop in Malaysia that aimed to develop an agenda for gender transformative research for the agricultural sector.
The conference, held in Penang this month, was...
Sunday, 28th October 2012
Research in agricultural development is highly-context specific, and partnerships at local, national, regional and international levels are essential for any organization to achieve impact at scale.
Effective partnership is central to the WorldFish-led CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agriculture Systems (AAS). The program recognizes that many organizations are working to improve the...
Saturday, 27th October 2012
A story of partnership from WorldFish and CARE, for the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) theme P - Partnerships.
Since the 1940s, the humanitarian organization, CARE, has been a key player on the world development stage. CARE’s work ranges from the delivery of humanitarian assistance amid times of crisis, to more on-going support to build community...