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      Systems-thinking approach to identify and assess feasibility of potential interventions to reduce antibiotic use in tilapia farming in Egypt

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      Preliminary lessons from COVID-19 disruptions of small-scale fishery supply chains

    • Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions

    • Emerging COVID-19 impacts, responses, and lessons for building resilience in the seafood system

      Emerging COVID-19 impacts, responses, and lessons for building resilience in the seafood system

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    We work across 20 countries in Asia, Africa and the Pacific to address sustainable development challenges through holistic aquatic food systems solutions. 

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    The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish and Aquaculture Africa Magazine (AAM)_2

    Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish: Impr…

    05/07/2022 - 05/07/2022
    An aquatic agricultural system, Bangladesh. Photo by Peter Fredenburg.

    CIMMYT-WorldFish Joint Seminar: Integrated ag…

    06/07/2022 - 06/07/2022
    Nicholas Kapi Ndabulula, fish trader, Barotse floodplain, Zambia. Photo by Clayton Smith.

    20th Biennial Conference of the International…

    18/07/2022 - 22/07/2022
    11th Symposium on Diseases in Asian Aquaculture (DAA11)

    11th Symposium on Diseases in Asian Aquacultu…

    23/08/2022 - 26/08/2022

    Latest News

    • Caulerpa is an edible green seaweed that is also commonly known as sea grapes due to the formation of small air bubbles surrounding its stems. Photo by Sean Lee Kuan Shern

      Renewing partnerships with Malaysian universities

    • A farmer from Gaibandha receives a Fish Card as part of obtaining a loan from Bank Asia. Photo by Debasish Bhattacharjee/WorldFish

      Partnering with Bank Asia to provide loans to small-scale aq…

    • Journalists from 15 news organizations attended an interactive media session on aquatic food systems reporting organized by WorldFish and the Bangladesh Agricultural Journalists Forum. Photo by Shaikh Shahrukh Farhan

      Working with journalists in Bangladesh to educate the public…

    • Grace Poporia harvests cassava from her home garden, One’ Oneabu, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands. Photo by Filip Milovac

      A critical look at livelihood diversification

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    We are a leading nonprofit research and innovation institution focused on aquatic foods for food system transformation for healthy people and planet.

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WorldFish Malawi Office
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P. O. Box 30294
Capital City, Lilongwe, Malawi

Contact: Lucious Kanyumba
+265 881 610 610
worldfish-malawi@cgiar.org

The Latest

Diving deep into the diversity of fish and other aquatic foods offers an unmatched potential to transform food systems for healthier people and a sustainable planet.

Harnessing aquatic foods for sustainable healthy diets

Posted by John Beddington, Naoko Yamamoto

Nutrition, aquatic food systems, Sustainability

Dr Shakuntala Thilsted is the first woman of Asian descent to win an award dubbed the Nobel prize of food

Why fish and aquatic foods are the answer to global hunger

Posted by Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted

World Food Prize, Nutrition, aquatic food systems

Smoked fish under a solar drier in Zambia. Photo by Chosa Mweemba.

5 innovations reducing loss and waste in aquatic food systems

Posted by Kate McMahon

innovation, Research, Food wastes, Economic losses

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Related Publications

CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems - Annual Report 2021
Report

CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems - Annual Report 2021

Rossignoli, C., Phillips, M.J., Cullhaj, M.

Gender, Livelihoods
Jun 2022
Innovation Platform Report Malawi: Piloting Inclusive Business and Entrepreneurial Models for Smallholder Farmers and Poor Value Chain Actors in Zambia and Malawi.
Report

Innovation Platform Report Malawi: Piloting Inclusive Business and Entrepreneurial Models for Smallholder Farmers and Poor Value Chain Actors in Zambia and Malawi.

Mwema, C.M., Maluwa, A., Chisusu, D., Lundeba, M.

innovation, Nutrition
Jun 2022
Piloting inclusive business and entrepreneurial models - Project Brief: January - December 2021
Brief

Piloting inclusive business and entrepreneurial models - Project Brief: January - December 2021

Cullhaj, M., Burcham, L.

Apr 2022
AfDB_Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)_Quarterly Project Performance Reporting Q4_ October – December 2021
Donor Report

AfDB_Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)_Quarterly Project Performance Reporting Q4_ October – December 2021

Fregene, B.T.

gender equality
Apr 2022
AfDB_Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)_Quarterly Project Performance Reporting Q3_ July – September 2021
Donor Report

AfDB_Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)_Quarterly Project Performance Reporting Q3_ July – September 2021

Fregene, B.T.

gender equality
Apr 2022
Socio-economic and biological impacts of the fish-based feed industry for sub-Saharan Africa
Internal Report

Socio-economic and biological impacts of the fish-based feed industry for sub-Saharan Africa

sub-Saharan Africa, Fish products
Mar 2022
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Our Projects In Malawi

2 Projects in Malawi

Malawi

May 2020 - Dec 2024

AFDB-Sustainable Capture Fisheries ,Aquaculture Development and WaterShed Management Project

The “Sustainable Fisheries, Aquaculture Development and Watershed Development Project” consists of four components which include:…

Myanmar, Bangladesh, Malawi

Jul 2018 - Jun 2021

Scaling systems and partnerships for accelerating the adoption of improved tilapia strains by small…

Global demand for seafood continues to rise and is driven by population growth, higher incomes, urbanization and increasing preferen…

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Malawi

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