Why we must protect the oceans
Since 2009, the world has been observing 8 June as World Ocean Day. Ocean's Day is a great occasion to raise awareness and understanding about the largest part of our planet.
Since 2009, the world has been observing 8 June as World Ocean Day. Ocean's Day is a great occasion to raise awareness and understanding about the largest part of our planet.
The Accounts Manager (Accounts Receivable & Treasury) will report to the Global Financial Controller and will support end to end accounts receivable process across the operation. The manager is entrusted with the task of overseeing cash-flow activities including cash-flow forecast, supervision of the organization banking accounts movements, optimizing foreign exchange activities, monitoring of third parties’ funds and ensuring compliance with the financial policies and procedures as set by WorldFish and CGIAR.
The Business Development and Partnerships team at WorldFish is requesting applications from consultants with extensive experience designing and writing award-winning proposals. Qualified consulting firms and individuals are welcome to submit the expression of interest (EOI) for short or long term consultancy assignments with WorldFish. This call for EOI aims to pre-qualify consultants to facilitate easy procurement for future assignments. The selected consultants will have one or more of the following responsibilities:
WorldFish Bangladesh and South Asia is hiring Research Associate in USAID funded ‘ECOFISH II’ project under Small Scale Fisheries (SSF) program in order to meet its vision: “Be the research partner of choice, delivering high impact, transformative and equitable fisheries and aquaculture solutions to reduce poverty and malnutrition in Bangladesh and South Asia”. The key objective of the ECOFISH II project is to improve the resilience of the coastal-marine and Meghna River ecosystems and improve the livelihoods of communities reliant on the coastal fisheries.
Well-functioning fish seed systems are crucial for human nutrition and improved livelihoods. Ensuring availability of consistently high quality seed to poor farmers in developing countries remains a major challenge. There are two dimensions to this problem:
A virtual event exploring innovative actions to boost climate resilience and sustainability of natural ecosystems in Southeast Asia.
FAO, WorldFish and Duke University are working in partnership with experts globally to revisit and build on the Hidden Harvest study in 2012. Encompassing the pre-harvesting, harvesting and post-harvesting sectors of inland and marine fisheries, the new study asks the questions: 1) What are the social, environmental, economic and governance contributions of small-scale fisheries at global and local scales? 2) What are the key drivers of change in these sectors, including both threats and opportunities?
WorldFish’s Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health Dr.
WorldFish and the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) are global leaders in aquatic food systems research and innovation, and science and partners