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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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    Domingos da Silva Brites is a fish farmer in Parlamento, Lautem municipality. He proudly stands by his ponds, as fish farming has provided him with vital income. Photo by Shandy Santos.

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    Aquaculture ponds at the NARDC in Kitwe, Zambia. Photo by Doina Huso.

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    Boat preparation. Photo by WorldFish.

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      Finding opportunities in Africa’s aquaculture sector

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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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A fish farmer from Rangpur receiving weather forecast from Bangladesh Meteorological Department’s toll-free hot line number. Photo by Harun Or Rashid

Managing climate variability with smart and innovative climate information services

Posted by Peerzadi Rumana Hossain

aquatic food systems, Aquaculture, Climate change, innovation

Jayanti Rai, a woman fish farmer, taking care of her vegetables garden beside the pond dike for nutrition sensitive aquaculture in Bangladesh. / Noor Alam, WorldFish

The power of small fish to nourish women and children

Posted by WorldFish

Nutrition, aquatic food systems, World Food Prize

World Food Prize Winner Shakuntala Thilsted presents a lecture at Iowa State University in Des Moines. Photo by Finn Thilsted.

World Food Prize Highlights: Aquatic foods make a splash in Des Moines

Posted by WorldFish

aquatic foods, Research, innovation, World Food Prize

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Inclusion of dried small fish in the ICDS Supplementary Nutrition Programme Pilot Study in Odisha, India
Report

Inclusion of dried small fish in the ICDS Supplementary Nutrition Programme Pilot Study in Odisha, India

Chadag, V.

Nutrition, Poverty reduction
Apr 2022
An assessment of Aquaculture and Fisheries Collaboration in the State of Odisha, 2016-2021
Internal Report

An assessment of Aquaculture and Fisheries Collaboration in the State of Odisha, 2016-2021

Dam Lam, R., Lozano, D.P., Shenoy, N., Rossignoli, C.

Aquaculture, Food security
Apr 2022
MPEDA-RGCA_Establishment of a Satellite Nucleus of the GIFT Strain at Rajiv Gandhi Center for Aquaculture (RGCA), India: Phase II_Annual Report_April 2021 -March 2022
Donor Report

MPEDA-RGCA_Establishment of a Satellite Nucleus of the GIFT Strain at Rajiv Gandhi Center for Aquaculture (RGCA), India: Phase II_Annual Report_April 2021 -March 2022

Chadag, V.

Nutrition
Apr 2022
Assam Agribusiness & Rural Transformation (APART) - Project Brief: October 2020 - September 2021
Brief

Assam Agribusiness & Rural Transformation (APART) - Project Brief: October 2020 - September 2021

Cullhaj, M., Burcham, L.

Apr 2022
Fisheries and Animal Resources Development (Program with Department of Fisheries, Odisha): Project brief April 2021 to March 2022
Brief

Fisheries and Animal Resources Development (Program with Department of Fisheries, Odisha): Project brief April 2021 to March 2022

Burcham, L.

gender equality
Apr 2022
Guidelines for setting up breeding experiments for small indigenous species (SIS)
Report

Guidelines for setting up breeding experiments for small indigenous species (SIS)

Belton, B., Thilsted, S.H.

breeding, Nutrition
Mar 2022
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Our Projects In India

3 Projects in India
carp polyculture

India, Bangladesh

Mar 2021 - Feb 2024

Taking nutrition-sensitive carp-SIS polyculture technology to scale

Fish is an irreplaceable source of micronutrients in diets in many developing countries, where large numbers of vulnerable people be…

India

Aug 2018 - Jul 2023

Assam Agribusiness & Rural Transformation (APART)

In the Indian state of Assam, capture fisheries and aquaculture provide livelihoods for thousands of rural households, who are direc…

Fisheries and Animal Resources Development (Program with Department of Fisheries, Odisha)

India

Jul 2016 - Jun 2022

Fisheries and Animal Resources Development (Program with Department of Fisheries, Odisha)

In Odisha, India about 45% of children under five are stunted or chronically malnourished and 41% are underweight. About 19.5% of ch…

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