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This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. (March 2011) THE WORLDFISH CENTER The WorldFish Center is a non-profit international research organization that collaborates with partners to carry out scientific research on fisheries and aquaculture aimed at reducing poverty and hunger in developing countries. The Center delivers science-based services and solutions (knowledge, expertise, methods, tools, technologies) directed towards solving poverty, hunger and environmental degradation in Africa, Asia and the South Pacific. WorldFish is one of 15 research centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) funded by donor countries, multilateral and global organizations and foundations. WorldFish employs 230 staff including 39 Ph.D. level scientists and carries out its mission in 25 countries worldwide. The Approach Working in partnership with private and public sectors and civil society, WorldFish develops pro-poor sustainable aquaculture that supports the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). All services and solutions developed by the Center are international public goods that are made freely available to all. 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 Center 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. Why Fish? The world’s bottom billion are falling behind in the war on poverty and hunger. Traditional staple foods alone cannot feed the world while fisheries and aquaculture have tremendous potential to provide the poor with more food, better nutrition and increased incomes. Fisheries are a source of high-protein food: they provide more than 1.5 billion people with almost 20 percent of their average per capita intake of animal protein, and 3 billion people with at least 15 percent of such protein. In some countries they provide up to 70% of animal protein -affordable, high-quality animal protein- that is particularly important for mothers-to-be and young children. Catching, processing and trading fish provide a source of income and livelihood for millions of men and women, the overwhelming majority of whom are associated with small-scale fisheries. In fact, of the 70% of the world’s total fish catch that comes from developing countries, over a half of this comes from small-scale fisheries. The Challenges Small scale fisheries have failed to keep pace with demand for food and employment in developing countries and urgently require attention to technology, health, economics and reform in management and governance. Over 20% of the world’s 38 million full-time fishers are among the world’s poorest people, earning less than US$1 per day, but most wild-fish stocks are reaching the limits of their productive capacity even as many have stabilized or declined because of overfishing and other causes. While the capacity needed to maintain wild fisheries must be amplified in the face of these constraints and pressures, development of aquaculture is also necessary as it provides the only option for substantial increases in fish production. Climate change poses additional challenges that will affect the productivity, distribution and seasonality of fisheries and the quality and availability of the habitats that support them while a further global threat comes from degradation of coral reefs. Seventy-five percent of coral reefs are currently under immediate and direct threat from local sources, which include overfishing, destructive fishing, coastal development, and pollution. WorldFish Research WorldFish expertise in Policy Economics and Social Sciences, Natural Resource Management and Aquaculture and Genetic Improvement work together to provide a wide range of research and analysis to meet complex challenges like these. The Policy Economics and Social Science division focuses on social and economic analysis of the aquaculture and fisheries sectors; connecting the fisheries and aquaculture sector to poverty reduction initiatives at local to global scales; policy and institutional analysis for the improved governance of aquatic resources; assessing the potential impacts of climate change on fisheries and adaptive measures that can be taken; and human health consequences of fisheries, reducing risks, and fisheries options that benefit health-impaired populations (HIV/AIDS and malaria). WorldFish also works with communities to manage their fisheries. The Natural Resources division produces integrated assessment and management technologies for small-scale fisheries, designs and manages global information systems on aquatic resources (FishBase , ReefBase), studies post-disaster livelihood recovery in fisheries-dependent regions, assesses impacts of built structures on aquatic resources in river basins and analyses external drivers such as climate change on livelihoods of fishery-dependent households. The Aquaculture and Genetic Improvement division is dedicated to developing methods for breeding improved fish strains for aquaculture; aquaculture technologies for the poor, including women and the landless; integrating aquaculture with terrestrial small-scale agriculture; developing strategies and options for aquaculture production and national action plans; connecting small-scale producers to markets and developing technologies that improve water productivity while protecting environmental flows. Impact and innovation WorldFish, with its partners, has raised incomes for millions of poor people (and reduced suffering of HIV/AIDS-affected families) by integrating aquaculture with agriculture 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, 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. Three areas of work have generated particularly large impact: The breeding of much higher-yielding tilapia fish varieties (GIFT), widely used in aquaculture across Asia, greatly raising productivity and incomes: $170 returned for each $100 invested per annum. Integrated aquaculture-agriculture in Malawi that has sharply increased incomes and reduced childhood malnutrition, and helping HIV/AIDS-affected families cope; $115 returned for each $100 invested per annum. Fisheries co-management in Bangladesh, which is increasing biodiversity, raising incomes by 100% and fish catches by 30%, particularly by empowering women. The Science Council commended co-management as an “eminently replicable model for contemporary rural development.” External Links The WorldFish Center Expanding sustainable aquaculture Productive and resilient small-scale fisheries Climate Change Human Health Gender Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Centers:- CGIAR Africa Rice Center Bioversity International CIAT - Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo CIP - Centro Internacional de la Papa ICARDA - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ICRISAT - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture ILRI - International Livestock Research Institute IRRI - International Rice Research Institute IWMI - International Water Management Institute ICRAF - World Agroforestry Centre The WorldFish Center This article has not been added to any categories. Please help out by adding categories to it so that it can be listed with similar articles. (March 2011)