This is a virtual event made of a presentation and a panel discussion, as part of a week-long series of Global Regional Aquaculture Reviews hosted by FAO, around the central theme of sustainable development and the State of World Aquaculture 2020.

Date: Tuesday29 October 2020

Time: 20:00-21:00 (UTC+8)

Click here to watch the event recording

On Tuesday, 29 October 2020, our Research Program Leader for Value Chains and Nutrition at WorldFish, Shakuntala Thilsted, participated in a presentation and provided insights into the nutritional benefits of fish and up-to-date information on the status and trends of the aquaculture sector, developed from national, regional and global datasets, supplemented with expert opinion and literature review, at regional and global levels and a panel discussion to review and discuss.

The reviews are meant for and use to government authorities, international and regional organizations, policy-makers, aquaculture farmers and other aquaculture value chain actors, investors, civil society organizations, academia and training institutions, as well as other interested stakeholders.

Read the news article titled “There’s more to aquaculture than “tonnes and dollars” by the Fish Site that covered the event and summarized the key messages by Shakuntala Thilsted and the panel speakers.