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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Eradicating poverty by nurturing the youth in aquaculture technologies
15.10.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Youth form the largest segment of the population in Africa and the world at large.…
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Shakuntala Thilsted receives award from Sylhet Agricultural University
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Nutrition, health & food security
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, global lead for nutrition and public health at WorldFish and the 202…
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Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia: Benefiting aquatic food producers in the past, present and future
10.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Nile tilapia is one of the major aquaculture species in the world, eclipsed only by grass…
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Aquatic foods’ seat at the table
05.10.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Where do aquatic foods fit in the ongoing quest to provide essential nutrition to the…
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Strengthening the voices of small-scale fishers for change
27.09.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Coastal small-scale fisheries provide food, nutrition and a way of life for millions of women…
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WorldFish’s Florine Lim bags inaugural CGIAR Inclusive Leader award
20.09.22Florine Lim Pei Pei, WorldFish’s interim global communications lead was announced the first-ever r…
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‘I eat tilapia every day’: Farmers in Timor-Leste achieve higher aquaculture production
16.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
WorldFish and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) provide technical support and guidance…
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Leveraging the expertise of institutions in East Malaysia for a sustainable aquatic food system
16.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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East Malaysia, separated from Peninsular Malaysia by the South China Sea, comprises the Borneo state…
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Public-private-partnership tilapia hatcheries grow from two to four, increasing access to fingerlings in Timor-Leste
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Two new public-private-partnership (PPP) model hatcheries are being established in Timor-Leste—one…
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Timor-Leste Prime Minister advocates for aquaculture development at tilapia harvesting ceremony
01.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On a sunny day in Leohitu, Timor-Leste, fish farmer Marcos Ramos stood up to share his aquacultur…
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Penang Chief Minister applauds WorldFish on successful IIFET 2024 bid
30.08.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow congratulated WorldFish for winning the bid to host the…
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WorldFish renews Memorandums of Understanding with top research universities in Malaysia
23.08.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
WorldFish signed today Memorandums of Understanding with Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Univers…
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Tilapia as the best bet species for aquaculture commercialization in India
18.08.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
India is the fourth-largest producer of fish and other aquatic foods in the world. With…
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‘Growing opportunities’: New WorldFish and university partnership in Timor-Leste enables first marine science students to graduate
17.08.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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Youth
WorldFish and the National University of Timor-Leste (UNTL) have signed a new 10-year agreement to…
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Emerging Youth: Nan Win Htwe
12.08.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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Youth
Nan Win Htwe has been working in her Southern Shan State family-owned fish hatchery for…
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Emerging Youth: Saifuddin Rana
12.08.22-
Youth
Saifuddin Rana is a native of Bangladesh’s Chattogram. Through a platform called FishBooth, the …
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Opportunities abound for investors in Africa's low-value species market, says WorldFish
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Nutrition, health & food security
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The organization is trying to create a climate-change resilient tilapia that can withstand higher oc…
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WorldFish mourns the passing of Professor Dr. Ayman Anwar Ammar
01.08.22The management and staff of WorldFish and the broader CGIAR system are deeply saddened to…
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