Healthy oceans through investments in sustainable aquaculture
economic vibrancyenvironmental sustainabilitysocio-economic security
We will have healthy oceans when we have ….
Aquaculture delivers ocean health because it …
provides livelihoodsmeets our demand for fishis environmentally efficient
Increasing global demand for fish
By 2020, we will need an extra 18 million tons of fish
Aquaculture must increase our fish supply.
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Fish is key for food and nutrition security
Egypt: an aquaculture success story
• The cheapest animal source food for Egyptians
• Supplies one fish per person per week
• Employs 200,000 people
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More fish promotes global security
• Food prices spikes correlate strongly with civil unrest• It’s not only rises in cereal prices that lead to trouble
Aquaculture offers more than food
• A driver of rural development• A source of employment and livelihood
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Aquaculture has a comparative advantage
We need to manage those impacts by:• Market, regulatory and technology interventions that promote
profitable and sustainable practice.• Innovations in feeds, genetics, training and markets.• Farming species that feed lower down the food chain.
Aquaculture growth will impact ecosystems
Worldfish: an international, nonprofit research organization dedicated to harnessing the potential of
fisheries and aquaculture to reduce hunger and poverty
• Improving nutrition and health• Improving value chains• Gender and equity• Adapting to climate change• Sustainable aquaculture production and productivity• Policies and practices for resilience
WorldFish research agenda
80% SMEs
• SMEs strengthen communities and promote better livelihoods• SMEs often lack working capital, access to markets and
business knowledge that would help them succeed• Investing to improving SME practices and technologies will
have significant environmental pay-offs
• Investment in SMEs needs to be accompanied by links to markets, technology development, training and infrastructure development
Why is an incubator needed?
Outcomes
• Bring research to scale through commercial investment
• Nurture early-stage aquaculture SMEs and prepare them for commercial investment
Impacts
• Successful businesses producing affordable, nutritious food for the poor
• Better livelihoods for those who rely on fisheries & aquaculture
A WorldFish incubator
$20M 200,000
Investment by 2020
Women and men with improved livelihoods by
2020
The WorldFish Incubator: Goals
100,000
Hectares under sustainable practices by
2020
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