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Category: Sustainable Aquaculture
Year of Publication: 2017
Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture for food security and nutrition
This report addresses a frequently overlooked but extremely important part of world food and nutrition security: the role and importance of fish in seeking food and nutrition security for all. Fisheries and aquaculture have often been arbitrarily separated from other parts of the food and agricultural systems in food security studies,
Year of Publication: 2021
2021 COFI Declaration for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture
The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country,
Category: Sustainable Food Systems
Year of Publication: 2021
Sustaining and improving the contribution small-scale fisheries make to healthy and sustainable food systems in Malawi
In Malawi, small-scale inland fisheries1 are the main source of fish and other aquatic foods. They contribute more than 90% of national fish supplies, provide nutrition for over 11.9 million people and employment for over 200,000 women and men (Figure 1)
Year of Publication: 2022
Proximity to small-scale inland and coastal fisheries is associated with improved income and food security
Poverty and food insecurity persist in sub-Saharan Africa. We conducted a secondary analysis of nationally representative data from three sub-Saharan Africa countries (Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda) to investigate how both proximity to and engagement with small-scale fisheries are associated with household poverty and food insecurity.
Category: Fish Health
Year of Publication: 2022
The African Great Lakes Regional Food System The contribution of fisheries and the case of small pelagic fishes
Africa’s Great Lakes Region comprises wetlands, rivers and lakes that account for approximately 25% of the earth’s unfrozen freshwater surface area, with catchments spanning more than 850,000 km2 (Cowx et al. 2019).
Category: Fish Health
Year of Publication: 2014
Technical Report of a Workshop on Trade and improved livelihoods in aquatic production in Africa (TILAPIA)
A workshop on ‘Trade and improved livelihoods in aquatic production in Africa’ was organised by African Union- Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) with the overall aim of building capacity on fish health and aquatic biosecurity to sustain and develop aquaculture and fisheries in Africa