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Call for action as Lake Nasser fish stocks decline
Attendees at a WorldFish convened workshop in Cairo have called for urgent action including a fisheries management plan for overfished Lake Nasser. The conclusion was reached during the event on fisheries stock assessment in Lake Nasser at the WorldFish ...
Type: Press Release
Boom and bust in Andhra Pradesh: Development and transformation in India's domestic aquaculture value chain
India is the world's second largest producer of farmed freshwater fish. The state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) is by far the most important producer of fish in India. Since the late 1970s, fish culture in AP has undergone a boom (first with Indian major ...
Type: Publication
Gender in the farmed fish value chain of Bangladesh: A review of the evidence and development approaches
Bangladesh is the world’s fifth-largest aquaculture producer, and statistics indicate that aquaculture now makes up about 56% of the country’s total fish production in terms of value. In Bangladesh, fish is the most important food after rice. Bangladesh ...
Type: Publication
The 'seafood gap' in the food-water nexus literature--issues surrounding freshwater use in seafood production chains
Freshwater use for food production is projected to increase substantially in the coming decades with population growth, changing demographics, and shifting diets. Ensuring joint food-water security has prompted efforts to quantify freshwater use for ...
Type: Publication
WorldFish in Egypt
Since launching its research program in Egypt in 1998, WorldFish has delivered high quality, practical research related to the country’s aquaculture and fishery sector. A key research focus has been on improving fish genetics to transform Egypt into a ...
Type: Publication
Annual Report 2017
The CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) is a new CRP that builds on earlier CRPs for Livestock and Fish (L&F) and Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) as well as prior research by WorldFish and the managing partners. Key outcomes ...
Type: Publication
Aquaculture's unrealised potential: an ASARECA funded partnership learning programme for the fisheries sector
The potential of aquaculture to reduce poverty and hunger has been recognised in Africa. However, growth in the sector has been limited up-to-now, providing less than 2% of total fish production. In Eastern and Central Africa, the slow growth has been ...
Type: Publication
Improving Employment and Income through Development of Egypt’s Aquaculture Sector (IEIDEAS) project
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)-funded Improving Employment and Income through Development of Egypt’s Aquaculture Sector (IEIDEAS) project was implemented by WorldFish in partnership with CARE Egypt and the Egyptian Ministry of ...
Type: Publication
Improving employment and incomes through development of Egypt’s aquaculture sector (IEIDEAS)
The IEIDEAS project, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and managed by WorldFish and CARE in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, has focused on the development of the Egyptian aquaculture value ...
Type: Publication
Informal fish retailing in rural Egypt: Opportunities to enhance income and work conditions for women and men
Poor rural consumers benefit from Egypt’s aquaculture sector through access to small and medium-sized farmed tilapia sold by informal fish retailers, many of whom are women. In fact, informal fish retail is the main, if not only, segment of the farmed ...
Type: Publication
