Nutrition
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.
Meet the Asia Regional Coordinator: Md. Gulam Hussain
"I strongly wish that all people in a society should know and be aware about eating more fish, which have enough nutrition benefit to keep their health well and boost up the body immunity to fight against all type of diseases, including novel…
Fish Innovation Lab Awards Additional Project in Kenya
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish (Fish Innovation Lab) at Mississippi State University (MSU) has awarded approximately $500,000 to a new project aimed at helping solve hunger and improve ecosystems in coastal Kenya.
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.
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).
Detailed Country Listing of New Fish Innovation Lab Projects
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish has awarded $6.2 million USD to 13 research-for-development projects to address food and nutrition security in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zambia.
Returning to Our Roots: Punti Fish Curry with White Radish
Over our long evolutionary past, approximately 2 million years, we subsisted on foods collected through hunting, fishing, and gathering. Scientists have shown that hominins from the ancestor family of Homo sapiens or modern humans lived near water…
Meet the Nutrition Specialist: Lora Iannotti
"We have to figure out how to nourish well 10 billion people while simultaneously protecting our planet. I believe these two challenges are intertwined, and thus, the solutions should also be connected."