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A virtual conference exploring opportunities and challenges to advance the economic sustainability, productivity and inclusivity of aquatic food systems worldwide.
A high-level virtual event exploring actions needed to boost the resilience and sustainability of the world’s oceans in line with Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water. Date: Tuesday, 1 June 2021 Time: 10:00 AM - 13:00 PM (UTC+8) In this high-level thematic debate convened by the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Volkan Bozkır, with support from the Governments of Portugal and Kenya (co-hosts of the 2nd United Nations Ocean Conference), as well as the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Oceans, H.E. Mr. Peter Thomson, four multi-stakeholder panels will a...
CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize From Share this to : Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named today as the 2021 World Food Prize Laureate for improving the quality, quantity, and availability of food in the world through her pioneering scientific work on nutrition, fish, and aquatic food systems. Often referred to as the “Nobel Prize for food and agriculture,” the World Food Prize is the most prominent global award recognizing an individual who has enhanced human develo...
The world is having to tackle three major emergencies at the same time. The first is obviously the Covid-19 pandemic that is still raging around the world, the second is climate change, which is also getting much worse every year, and finally, there is biodiversity loss, which will mean the loss of up to a million species if we cannot stem the tide. What is being done and what more needs to be done, at both the global as well as national levels? At the global level, for climate change, we have the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement on Climat...
Passcode: 37778953 In this independent food systems dialogue hosted by FAO and WorldFish, policy, research and development experts as well as key stakeholders from fish farmers and fishing communities, fish processors and marketers and consumer groups, will come together to share perspectives and develop an agenda of solutions to address specific challenges faced by the fisheries and aquaculture sector in Bangladesh. WorldFish’s Director General, Dr. Gareth Johnstone, will lead the keynote presentation on sustainable food systems transformation with aquatic foods in Bangladesh. This will b...