This Medium Term Plan (MTP) describes the World Fish Center™s programs and partnerships and explains how they will help to reduce poverty, increase food and nutritional security, and improve the environment. Building upon the WorldFish Center™s recent achievements in aquatic resources...

This Medium Term Plan 2004-2006 presents the World Fish Center™s programs and partnerships and describes how they are designed to provide the scientific basis for multiple positive contributions that living aquatic resources (fish for short) can make to poverty eradication, food and...

The International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) presents its Medium Term Plan (MTP) for 2001-2003 for the consideration by TAC and members of the CGIAR. The Plan has been developed in a period when there is growing public discontent over the limitations of global fish...

The International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) presents its Medium Term Plan (MTP) for 2002-2004 for the consideration by TAC and members of the CGIAR. The Plan has been developed in a period when there is growing public discontent over the limitations of global fish...

Across much of Africa, freshwater and coastal fisheries provide an important source of food and livelihood for many millions of people. In addition, the aquaculture potential of the continent has only recently begun to be developed. To help sustain these capture fisheries, support the emergence...

As compared to crops and livestock, the genetic enhancement of fish is in its infancy. While significant progress has been achieved in the genetic improvement of temperate fish such as salmonids, no efforts were made until the late 1980s for the genetic improvement of tropical finfish, which...

Aquaculture production in Africa has remained low despite the huge potential that exists on the continent. In order for this potential to be realized, it is necessary to refocus the direction of aquaculture development. This paper concludes that for further growth to occur it is necessary to:...