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MYCulture: Promoting Sustainable Growth of Aquaculture in Myanmar to Improve Food Security and Income for Communities in the Ayeyarwady Delta and Central Dry Zone
Type: Other (Factsheet)
The project funded by Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) promoted the sustainable growth of aquaculture in Myanmar by introducing low-cost small-scale aquaculture (SSA) technologies that incorporated small indigenous ...
Food and nutrition security in Sierra Leone with a focus on fish in Tonkolili District
Type: Report
Sierra Leone, located on the west coast of Africa, has a population of 6.3 million, with an annual growth rate of 2.2%. Food insecurity and malnutrition are national concerns, as almost a quarter of the population is ...
Fish for nutrition and security
Type: Poster
Infographics on fish for nutrition and food security.
Foods and diets of communities involved in inland aquaculture in Malaita Province, Solomon Islands
Type: Report
Solomon Islands has a population of just over half a million people, most of whom are rural-based subsistence farmers and fishers who rely heavily on fish as their main animal-source food and for income. The nation is one ...
The socio-economic context for improving food security through land based aquaculture in Solomon Islands: A peri-urban case study
Type: Journal Article
Future fish demand-supply scenarios project that investment in aquaculture will be needed to ensure fish for food security in Solomon Islands. In 2010 a study of two peri-urban areas of Solomon Islands analysed the demand ...
Khokar shopno (Khoka’s dream)
Type: Training Material
This story is about the change in the food intake of a young boy, Khoka, after his family started to grow fish and vegetables in a homestead pond. Khoka’s parents are poor. They do not have land to grow food even for their ...
WorldFish History
Type: Other
Infographics on the history of WorldFish.
Maximizing the contribution of fish to human nutrition
Type: Conference Paper
Hunger and malnutrition are the world's most devastating problems and are inextricably linked to poverty. A total of 842 million people in 2011-13, or around one in eight people in the world, were estimated to be suffering ...
WorldFish Backgrounder
Type: Poster
Infographics on the mission of WorldFish.
Linking small-scale fisheries and aquaculture to household nutritional security: an overview
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture have been recognized as important opportunities to enhance household food security in developing countries. While interventions aiming at promoting these activities reveal many positive ...