WorldFish Repository: Recent submissions
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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic response on aquaculture farmers in five countries in the Mekong Region
Type: Journal ArticlePublic health measures aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19 can have significant, unintended impacts on livelihoods. In this paper, we assess the impacts of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on aquaculture farmers in ... -
Scaling strategy: Upgrading fisheries science curriculum and training tools for Zambia and the SADC region
Type: BriefImproved performance of aquaculture value chains has been shown to promote economic, social, and environmental development in developing countries. Effective linkages of small and medium scale farmers to profitable value ... -
Aquatic Foods for Health and Livelihoods in Timor-Leste
Type: WebsiteAlthough Timor-Leste has a rich culinary history of food from the sea, fish and other aquatic foods are often inaccessible and too expensive for many Timorese. Agustinha Duarte, a WorldFish research analyst, is working to ... -
In the Spotlight: Tasnuva Zaman
Type: BlogTasnuva Zaman is WorldFish's senior gender specialist based in Bangladesh. Zaman's research focuses on gender mainstreaming, which calls for an integrated gender perspective at all stages of development, and she works to ... -
Emerging Scientist: Laura Khor
Type: BlogLaura Khor, a WorldFish Research Fellow, earned her Master of Science in Aquaculture from Universiti Malaysia Sabah and is currently working on novel approaches to monitoring and mitigating disease outbreaks in aquaculture. ... -
In the Spotlight: Bernadette Fregene
Type: BlogBernadette Fregene is WorldFish’s aquaculture compact leader and a professor of aquaculture and fisheries extension, economics, and marketing at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Fregene facilitates the delivery of new ... -
The FISH Newsletter
Type: NewsletterA curated collection of stories, publications, campaigns, and events stemming from FISH's research and innovations work for the first quarter of 2021. -
Cookbook celebrates aquatic foods for life and livelihoods in Timor-Leste
Type: BlogA new cookbook celebrates aquatic foods and their traditional cooking methods in Timor-Leste. Aquatic foods have the potential to improve health and nutrition in the country and support rural livelihoods. -
Equitable digital tools can boost small-scale fisher livelihoods
(2021)Type: BlogIn low- and middle-income countries, ICTs can be used to assist small-scale fishers and fish workers, but illiteracy and unreliable internet connectivity need to be addressed to ensure marginalised fishers are not left behind. -
COVID-19 impact on aquatic food systems reveals insights for future resilience
Type: BlogThe onset of COVID-19 disrupted food value chains and reversed years of progress on key development indicators. The pandemic induced shocks to food systems globally, but particularly impacted value chains in food insecure ... -
Beyond social-ecological traps: Pathways to a sustainable future
Type: BlogIn development and resilience research, the metaphor of a ‘trap’ is commonly employed to convey the rigidity that can be associated with complex systems. In practical meaning, and in their mechanical workings, traps are ... -
African women join forces to overcome COVID-19 challenges in aquatic food systems
Type: BlogAcross Africa, women working in aquatic food value chains are banding together to support their livelihoods and ensure the continued flow of fish despite COVID-19 lockdowns and disruptions. -
Gender assumptions harm progress on climate adaption and resilience, new study finds
Type: BlogOutdated assumptions around gender continue to hinder effective and fair policymaking and action for climate mitigation and adaptation, a new study published in Nature Climate Change has found. -
Zambian aquaculture provides new opportunities for youth
(2021)Type: BlogZambia’s emerging aquaculture sector is set to be a key supplier of fish and other aquatic foods in sub-Saharan Africa. The sector already employs approximately 13,000 people. Its growth presents an economic opportunity ... -
Inland fisheries critical for nourishing young children in sub-Saharan Africa, study reveals
Type: BlogInland fisheries are critical to supplying children with the nutritious, diverse diets required for cognitive development in rural sub-Saharan households, a new WorldFish research publication revealed. -
Recirculating Aquaculture Is Possible without Major Energy Tradeoff: Life Cycle Assessment of Warmwater Fish Farming in Sweden
Type: Journal ArticleSeafood is seen as promising for more sustainable diets. The increasing production in land-based closed Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RASs) has overcome many local environmental challenges with traditional open net-pen ... -
Innovation Platform Concept Paper
Type: ManualThe GIZ-funded piloting inclusive business models project seeks to set up an innovation platform with private and public actors to determine the various opportunities to support and supply inputs and services to local ... -
Business plan training in Zambia
Type: ManualPiloting inclusive business and entrepreneurial models project funded by GIZ, recruited 30 hatchery operators and 10 feed operators to supply seed and feed in Northern and Luapula provinces of Zambia. The need, therefore, ... -
Aquatic food systems under COVID-19
Type: BriefThe World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11 March 2020 (WHO, 2020a). This declaration prompted emergency measures across the globe to contain the spread of the disease. Taken as a whole, the ... -
Climate risk management practices of fish and shrimp farmers in the Mekong Region
Type: Journal ArticleAs comparative multi-country studies are rare, not much is known about the effects of regional differences in social-ecological conditions on the adoption of climate risk management practices in aquaculture. This study is ...
