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Image Alternative Text: The above image is from the inception training held in Ibadan in February 2021.

Integrating Digital Learning Tools for Long Distance Team Training During the COVID-19 Crisis

In the Improving Biosecurity project team's success story, they tell how creating a mobile-phone-accessible course helped train enumerators and postgraduate students under lockdown conditions due to COVID-19.

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Achieving Coral Reef Fishery Sustainability in East African Biodiversity and Climate Refugia Centers

In this video, learn how this activity is working with communities in Kenya to identify and implement fishery restrictions that will help increase production and improve food security.

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How Locally Sourced Fish Powder Drives Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition in Zambia

In Zambia, women catch thousands of tiny fish from Lake Kariba, the center of the local fishing economy. These fish also provide an opportunity for other riches: nutrition promotion, women’s empowerment, and community resilience. Read the full story by Feed the Future here.

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Using Fish to Mitigate Malnutrition: Research to Test Innovative, Sustainable Approaches

Watch the recording of the Fish Innovation Lab's virtual side event during the 2021 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue.

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Survey Examines Fish Health to Improve Aquaculture Biosecurity in Nigeria

The Improving Biosecurity in Catfish and Tilapia Production team conducted a fish epidemiology and health economics survey to help improve biosecurity in Nigerian catfish and tilapia aquaculture.

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Integrated Rice-Prawn/Shrimp-Vegetable Farming System

In this video, Bangladesh farmers describe their successes using an integrated farming system to produce rice, shrimp/prawns, and vegetables.

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Women's Employment in the Aquaculture Value Chain

This video, produced by the Machine Learning for Better Aquaculture project, highlights women’s increasing participation in fish and vegetable markets in Bangladesh.

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Youth Employment in Aquaculture Value Chain (Wholesale Market)

This video features youth working in a wholesale market, an example of increasing employment opportunities for young people in the aquaculture value chain in Bangladesh.

Image Alternative Text: A picture of the people who joined the Delta South and Central Senatorial District training.

Recent Trainings in Nigeria Taught the Importance of Food Safety in Fish Processing

The Nourishing Nations’ August trainings provided Nigerians with new approaches to fish processing, taught them how to prevent food contamination, and promoted the benefits of adding fish to their diets.

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Our People Story: Grace Adegoye from the Nourishing Nations team

Grace Adegoye, a Ph.D. candidate at Mississippi State University, tells about what led her to work alongside the Fish Innovation Lab's Nourishing Nations team.