Capacity Development
Virtual Trainings Prepare Scientists to Develop Cryogenic Sperm Bank for Carps in Bangladesh
When travel restrictions prevented the in-person training from happening, the researchers pivoted to create a series of six interactive virtual workshops beginning on September 30, 2020, to provide the training and facilitate cooperation between the…
Exam Tests Knowledge of Fisheries and Sustainability
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish (Fish Innovation Lab) is working with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in Kenya to secure coral reef sanctuaries from increasing climate change disturbances. Once these sanctuaries are identified,…
Aquaculture and Public Health in Nigeria
“Through this project, I worked with people from diverse fields—economists, fish experts, nutritionists, and environmental health professionals from Nigeria and around the world. I enjoyed interacting with the people whose lives are impacted by a…
A training workshop for data enumerators on Estimate Aquaculture Production and Value Chain Performance in Bangladesh held.
A training workshop through webinar has been inaugurated for data enumerators to implement the field research of the project ‘Harnessing Machine Learning to Estimate Aquaculture Production and Value Chain Performance in Bangladesh.’
Florence Malama has joined the FishFirst! Zambia Team
Florence Malama has joined the FishFirst! Zambia team and will be working in-country to implement surveys at Lake Kariba.
MSU continues international leadership in aquaculture, world’s fastest-growing food production sector
As aquaculture and fisheries play an increasingly important role in addressing global food security, Mississippi State University is continuing to build its reputation as an international leader in the field.
New Interactive Guidebook for Capacity Development in Agriculture Innovation
Fish Innovation Lab researchers and staff contributed to a new interactive guidebook for practitioners of agriculture for development. Published by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy, this guidebook brings together tools and…
Meet the Deputy Director: Elin Torell
"I believe it is critical to take an integrated approach to fisheries management where you consider how human behaviors and context, including population and health, influence the choices people make within the fisheries sector."
Virtual Farmer-to-Farmer Assignments in the Time of COVID-19
The USAID-funded John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) Program is a volunteer program which provides technical assistance to farmers, farm groups, agribusinesses and other agriculture sector institutions in developing and…
$5.7 million to fight global hunger awarded by MSU-based Fish Innovation Lab
Through the $5.7 million, the Fish Innovation Lab is supporting 12 research-for-development projects focused on aquaculture and fisheries activities along the fish value chain in Bangladesh (3), Cambodia (2), Kenya (1), Nigeria (5) and Zambia (1).