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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?

GSSI and IDH launch Seafood MAP program to accelerate sustainable seafood

On March 30 2020, at a SeafoodSource webinar, the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI) and IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, launched Seafood MAP – a new market and investment program,…

Is your agribusiness taking advantage of the right digital opportunities?

Artificial Intelligence, Big data, Internet of Things, Remote sensing, Robotics, and Mobile phones are changing many industries, yet they’ve only scratched the surface to induce a much-needed digital revolution in…

Guide: Integrating data into farmers’ decision making – Lesson from Asia

FaThis Farmfit report is about how to support farmer’s transitions to data-backed agriculture, through the use of Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS). It entails a summary of choices,…

Tilapia farming in Kenya and Tanzania can be profitable!

Utrecht, February 1, 2020 – Larive International, coordinator of FoodTechAfrica, and IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, are excited to join forces to boost tilapia farming in East Africa through a…

Seafood MAP

Global partnership working towards joint agenda to accelerate sustainable seafood

Securing healthy food and decent work for an estimated 10 billion people on the planet by 2050 will take urgent, collective action. To meet the growing demand in a sustainable…

Artificial Intelligence to help Indian aquaculture farmers to tackle shrimp diseases

Aquaconnect, IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative, and Professor Kenton Morgan partner in a project to predict shrimp diseases by using machine learning. The project aims to benefit 13.000 ha of…

Kick-off a Global Investment Agenda in Aquaculture.

Aquaculture is a great source of high-quality proteins with a low feed and carbon footprint. It has the potential to feed a growing world population in a responsible way. Aquaculture…

Fighting shrimp diseases by making better use of data

Indonesian start-up in Jogjakarta to accelerate their work on shrimp diseases by integrating aquatic epidemiology to predict diseases JALA, the University of Prince Edward Island and IDH, the Sustainable Trade…