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Environmental risk in aquaculture: What do farmers think?

Area-based approaches to address environmental risk are gaining popularity in aquaculture management. New research demonstrates the need to rethink the application of area-based approaches, considering how farmers themselves understand environmental risk.

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Aquaculture, area-based management, Fish farming
WorldFish appoints Dr. Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio to board

WorldFish is pleased to welcome Dr. Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio to its Board of Trustees. She joins Director General Gareth Johnstone, Board Chair Yvonne Pinto and six other members in providing strategic direction and effective governance.

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Adaptation, Climate change, Governance, Research, Resilience
Improved data management is enhancing innovation and impact, byte by byte

Recent progress on open access and open data is helping WorldFish to improve efficiencies and enhance innovation and impact in an era of increasingly complex data sets.

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big data, data management, Research, Small-scale fisheries
Empowering Women Fish Retailers (EWFIRE)

In Egypt, aquaculture markets have become a strategic food sector that contributes to nutrition security and sustains substantial employment opportunities for informal retailers, many of whom are women. The Empowering Women Fish Retailers (EWFIRE) project will test different value chain development strategies to improve women’s economic empowerment.

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Africa, Egypt, Sustainable Aquaculture, women, Gender, fish retailers

CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-food Systems

WorldFish leads the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-food Systems (FISH), which focuses on improving the productivity of fisheries and aquaculture to reduce poverty and improve food and nutrition security.
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Scaling Systems and Partnerships for Accelerating the Adoption of Improved Tilapia Strains by Small-Scale Fish Farmers (SPAITS)

Senior Pacific officials commit to promoting small-scale fisheries in national policies

Big data proposal wins 2018 Inspire Challenge

Featured Publication: Aquaculture Technical, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training for Improved Private Sector and Smallholder Skills project in Zambia

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WorldFish and Skretting sign MoU to develop aquaculture in Africa

The big data supporting small-scale fisheries research

Overcoming gender-related barriers in small-scale fisheries

Prospects and challenges of fish for food security in Africa

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