Improving Human Outcomes

Image Alternative Text: Jamaa and his wife (both activity participants) display their goats in Kokotoni Village.

Kenyan Fisherman Improves His Livelihood and Family Wellbeing Through Modified Basket Traps and Training

Jamaa, a fisherman in his early 30s from the coastal region of Kenya, improved his fishing efforts after receiving fishing traps from the Samaki Salama activity. His livelihood and the wellbeing of his family have changed for the better thanks to…

Image Alternative Text: Nnanna Hyacinth Chuckwu inspects a rice-fish farm.

Rice-Fish Farming Increases Yield, Improves Household Nutrition and Income for Nigerian Families

Nnanna Hyacinth Chuckwu, a rice farmer in Ebonyi State, Nigeria, learned how to incorporate fish into his rice farm. The Fish Innovation Lab's Farm Diversification team provided entry-level training for smallholder Nigerian rice farmers like Chuckwu…

Image Alternative Text: Rice-fish farming in action! Women and youth pull in a net of fish.

Integrated Rice-Fish Farming: Localization Through Farm Diversification

The practice of farming rice and fish simultaneously aims to improve the productivity, resilience, and biological diversity of the rice field while making optimal use of water and land resources. The Farm Diversification activity implementation was…

Image Alternative Text: The nutrition educator assistant visiting with Medza and Mariam at their home.

Samaki Salama: Helping a Grandmother in Kenya Provide Better Nutrition to her Granddaughter

Medza, a 74-year-old woman who lives in a village in Kenya, learns how to cook more nutritious meals for her young, growing granddaughter. Through a Samaki Salama nutrition educator and a cooking demonstration class by the research team, Medza now…

Image Alternative Text: Here is a photo of Chhoeun Sreynuch, a fisherwoman from the village of Bak Angrut in Cambodia.

Fishing is for Girls: Rural Matriarch Fishes for Family and Research

Chhoeun Sreynuch is one of the 15 fishers who participate in a fisheries research program with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in Cambodia. The USAID-funded Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish activity is working to collect fisheries…

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Development and Validation of Nutrition and Food Safety Educational Material for Fish Processors in Nigeria

The Nourishing Nations activity developed and validated a low-literacy flipbook designed to teach women fish processors in Nigeria about nutrition and food safety. Learn more in this article from the International Journal of Environmental Research…

Image Alternative Text: Abdul Alim (right) is handing over a bag of WorldFish G3 rohu spawn to a customer.

Genetically-Improved Rohu is Commercially Available and in High Demand in Bangladesh

Abdul Alim, owner of Mukteshary Fish Hatchery in Jashore, Bangladesh, received G3 rohu in 2020, developed them as broodstock, and produced seed in 2022 for the first time thanks to the Advancing Aquaculture Systems Productivity Through Carp Genetic…

Image Alternative Text: Miniver Kampamba, one of the female fish farmers, is directing the research team to one of her cages that was experiencing fish mortalities.

Fish Disease Investigation Increases Disease Awareness Among Small-Scale Fish Farmers

Miniver Kampamba, a young, female farmer in Zambia, experienced severe fish loss, which she suspected was due to disease. To address these challenges for fish farmers like Kampamba, the Development and Investigation of the Delivery Mode of a…

Image Alternative Text: Here, a training facilitator is demonstrating how to make fish-frying batter.

Fish Processors in Nigeria Apply New Skills From Training to Improve Their Products and Businesses

The Nourishing Nations activity led a training during December 2022 to further fish processors' skills to become more profitable and provide Nigerians with nutritious fish. The 75 fish processors (54 women and 21 men) from three senatorial zones in…

Image Alternative Text: A woman holding up an export grade mud crab.

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Crab Farming for Women in Bangladesh

The crab sector has provided a variety of economic possibilities for the coastal poor and marginalized women who were working as non-waged laborers. Women are involved in crab farming in a variety of ways, but the Covid-19 pandemic negatively…