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First IDH Farmfit Fund investment in smallholder Tilapia farmers in Mozambique

On April 13, 2021, the IDH Farmfit Fund signed an EURO 1.4 million investment deal into Chicoa Fish Farm, a Tilapia farm in Mozambique. The investment – taking the form…

Seafood MAP: First Tests to start in October

A new phase is about to begin for the Seafood MAP project. After consultations with various GSSI Partners and stakeholders over the summer, the first tests of…

Is this Black Soldier Fly the answer to food security in Africa?

The insect larvae of the Black Soldier Fly can turn organic waste and manure into very high protein fish feed. The insects larvae production is cheap, thereby…

COVID-19: Supporting farmers and communities in India

Multiple initiatives in India subsidize hospital transport, share information or help deliver essential items to farmers.  We have seen considerable changes in India with the spread of the coronavirus across…

Driving Sustainable Aquaculture and Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Kenya

Podcast: Seafood MAP – How GSSI supporting non-certified seafood producers to accelerate their performance

The Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative’s Seafood MAP is being created to push for more sustainable seafood for everyone. Seafood MAP will be an inclusive digital platform that compiles and…

Podcast: Avoiding diseases in aquaculture as a sustainability tool

In this podcast Flavio Corsin, IDH director of Aquaculture, talks about the importance of avoiding diseases in aquaculture as a sustainability tool. Disease outbreaks can cause major fish mortality, leading to loss…

Honey farms in West Kalimantan enjoy increased demand during COVID-19

The demand for honey produced by Padang Tikar village forest in Kubu Raya district, West Kalimantan (Indonesia) has increased by 500% during the COVID-19 pandemic. Residents of populous West Java and East Java have increased their consumption of honey, vitamin C and D3 as they believe this will boost their immune system. The honey is produced by Indonesian villagers who took up honey farming in 2018 as part of a community-based forest management initiative.

Coronavirus may help spur aquaculture investments in Africa

Originally posted on the Undercurrent News. The African aquaculture sector has become an even more appealing investment proposition in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Flavio Corsin — head of…

Indonesian start-up adapts app to support shrimp farmers through COVID-19 crisis

Shrimp farmers are a hardy bunch. In recent years, the industry has been hit by a number of viral diseases, such as the White Spot Disease and Early Mortality Syndrome. The Asian shrimp industry alone reported to have lost at least USD $20 billion in the last decade. This series of shocks has led the industry to bounce back better: with farmers increasingly cutting out use of antibiotics, reducing environmental impact of shrimp production and finding technological solutions to boost their resilience. Last year, Indonesian start-up JALA together with IDH launched a data-driven system to monitor and prevent shrimp diseases. But can these experiences bolster the industry’s immunity to the global impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic?