Regional Focus of WorldFish

While developing research products of global utility, we execute much of our work in regional contexts so that we can:

• Engage closely with national partners and their regional collaboration mechanisms;
• Adapt our approaches to the differing conditions and priorities of regions, so that our partnership-based work is most relevant and impactful; and
• Serve the desires of the investment and partner communities for targeted focus on key needs and opportunities.

WorldFish concentrates its research activities in three parts of the world: Africa, where the need for assistance is the greatest; Asia, where there is the largest number of people dependent on aquaculture and small-scale fisheries, and the South Pacific, where island nations have high rates of poverty and a heavy dependence on coastal-based livelihoods.

We’ve defined our regional areas and priorities based on how well fisheries interventions can best contribute to alleviating poverty, hunger and environmental degradation. The six regions are described in the links below, leading to their sections of this website:

• East & Southeast Asia
• Greater Mekong
• South Asia
• South Pacific
• Southern and Eastern Africa
• Western and Central Africa

Complementing this approach the Center is developing joint research programs with China and India, both global leaders in aquaculture, to address issues of regional and global significance.