WorldFish Center

The WorldFish Center, a CGIAR Consortium Research Center, is an international, non-profit research organization dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture. CGIAR is a global research partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for sustainable development. CGIAR research is dedicated to reducing rural poverty, increasing food security, improving human health and nutrition, and ensuring more sustainable management of natural resources. It is carried out by the 15 centers who are members of the CGIAR Consortium in close collaboration with hundreds of partner organizations, including national and regional research institutes, civil society organizations, academia, and the private sector. www.cgiar.org

Working in partnership with private and public sectors and civil society, WorldFish develops pro-poor sustainable aquaculture that supports the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). All services and solutions developed by the Center are international public goods that are made freely available to all.

WorldFish takes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary research approach that acknowledges the complex and multi-faceted problems that face fisheries and aquaculture. Failure to embrace this complexity has led to piecemeal efforts in the past and undue faith in single technology or development approaches. The Center prioritizes its research efforts to include those areas in which it will have the biggest impacts, and assumes the role of broker and catalyst of research among the full range of development partners needed to close the gap between research and development action.