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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