Dave Little and Richard Newton participated in the kick-off meetings for the DANIDA funded ‘Climate resilient aquatic food systems for healthy lives of young women and girls in Bangladesh project’ aka the AQUAFOOD project.
Richard Newton, Wesley Malcorps, Bjorn Kok and David Little recently worked with colleagues from the Universities of Cambridge, Lancaster and Aberdeen to look at how micronutrients in feed fish could be most efficiently utilised for human nutrition.
Professor Dave Little was recently featured on the University of Stirling news pages for his contribution to a new paper entitled “Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation”
Stuart Bunting shares some key findings from a recent open-access paper entitled ‘Evaluating the potential of innovations across aquaculture product value chains for poverty alleviation in Bangladesh and India’
ThinkAqua recently coordinated a review of global aquaculture on behalf of the Sustainable Aquaculture Working Group of the Blue Food Partnership, World Economic Forum.
Danielle Maitland has created an extensive database of information about aquaponic systems, which she is sharing with the aquaponics community for further development.
Jules Wehry reports on the findings of his MSc project on the potential for using insect larvae fed on distillery by-products as a substitute for fishmeal in Atlantic salmon feed.
Research on strategies for mixed-sex tilapia production has been published in the journal “Aquaculture”, suggesting there are particularly opportunities for larger companies targeting urban markets sensitive to environmental and welfare messaging.
In a new Nature publication we make the case that freshwater aquaculture dominates global aquaculture production, but its importance is often overlooked in global food-policy agenda and research.
A new, large-scale study into prawn and shrimp production in southwest Bangladesh has found that the industry is crucial to public health and prosperity, whilst being climate-resilient, contrary to its reputation.