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USAID-Funded Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish at MSU Launches Startup and Scaling Activities

Mississippi State University’s reach extends beyond state and U.S. borders with global impact in education and research. The Fish Innovation Lab announced a $600,000 portfolio of six new one-year activities called Startup and Scaling Activities,…

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Introducing the Fish Innovation Lab Startup and Scaling Activities

Check out the Fish Innovation Lab's six, new 1-year activities. These Startup and Scaling Activities will work in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zambia to increase food security in Asia and Africa through nutritious aquatic foods.

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Fish Innovation Lab Resilience Brief: Highlights of Program Achievements and Recommendations

The Fish Innovation Lab has strengthened the resilience of key aspects of aquaculture and fishery systems in countries spanning Bangladesh, Kenya, and Nigeria, to name a few. In the process, researchers, implementers, and communities have…

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Tropical Fishery Nutrient Production Depends on Biomass-based Management

The Achieving Coral Reef Fishery Sustainability activity in Kenya has a new journal article in iScience. Overfishing drives lost nutrient production in the Western Indian Ocean artisanal fisheries, so tropical fishery management should focus on…

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Challenges to Managing Fisheries with High Inter-Community Variability on the Kenya-Tanzania Border

The Achieving Coral Reef Fishery Sustainability activity in Kenya has a new journal article in Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. The research team's objective was to better understand and suggest management that accounts for the…

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Achieving Coral Reef Fishery Sustainability Team's Executive Summary

The Achieving Coral Reef Fishery Sustainability research team aimed to address challenges of suboptimal seafood production in a climate refugia in Kenya. Read the team's recommendations on how the community and fisheries management programs can be…

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Samaki Salama Team's Executive Summary

The Samaki Salama activity aimed to promote sustainable fisheries practices and improve the nutritional status of young children. Read the team's executive summary to learn about their results and recommendations to address human health and…

Image Alternative Text: Map showing location of fishing communities and their fishing grounds used to estimate stocks, yields, and fishing areas by management systems. Inset shows locations of various fisheries closures used to estimate fish stocks and recovery rates in the southern Kenya–Northern Tanzanian region.

Low Optimal Fisheries Yield Creates Challenges for Sustainability in a Climate Refugia

The Achieving Coral Reef Fishery Sustainability activity in Kenya has a new journal article in Conservation Science and Practice. From the research, both fisheries stock and catch assessment methods found low production and excess effort when…

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Fish Innovation Lab Nutrition Specialist Dr. Lora Iannotti Receives 2022 BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab

The Fish Innovation Lab's nutrition specialist and PI of the Samaki Salama activity, Lora Iannotti, is the recipient of the 2022 BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab. This honor recognizes her work to improve…

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United States Announces $29 Million Investment to Extend Two Feed the Future Innovation Labs

USAID announced a five-year extension for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish and the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems Research. These critical investments will increase productivity and raise incomes of small-scale farmers…