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WorldFish
With its partners,WorldFish has raised incomes for millions of poor people by developing sustainable aquaculture value chains that generate equitable benefits to participants, and has empowered poor communities to participate in the sustainable co-management of their fisheries. It has helped countries cope with disaster and conflict by restoring fisheries, helping develop aquaculture based on livelihoods, provided nations with tools to improve the planning and management of major river basins, and developed widely-consulted global databases and strengthened national capacities for fisheries management.
courtesy of Graeme Macfadyen (Poseidon)©
courtesy of Mike McCoy©
courtesy of WorldFish©
Founded in 1975, the centre is committed to meeting two key development challenges: improving the livelihoods of those who are especially poor and vulnerable in places where fisheries and aquaculture can make a difference; and achieving large scale, environmentally sustainable, increases in supply and access to fish at affordable prices for poor consumers in developing countries.
courtesy of Mike McCoy©
courtesy of Jens Peter Tang Dalsgaard©
courtesy of Patrick Dugan©
courtesy of Samuel Stacey©
courtesy of Samuel Stacey©
WorldFish, a member of the CGIAR Consortium, is an international, nonprofit research organisation dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture. From new syntheses and analysis to targeted, on the ground delivery and knowledge sharing,WorldFish technologies, products and services help to make development happen in more than 19 countries around the world.
Working in partnership with private and public sectors and civil society, WorldFish develops pro-poor sustainable and equitable aquaculture value chains that support the Millennium Development Goals. WorldFish takes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary research approach that acknowledges the complex and multi-faceted problems that face fisheries and aquaculture. Failure to embrace this complexity has led to piecemeal efforts in the past and undue faith in single technology or development approaches. The centre prioritizes its research efforts to include those areas in which it will have the biggest impacts, and assumes the role of broker and catalyst of research among the full range of development partners needed to close the gap between research and development action.
32 | International AquaFeed | March-April 2013