People & planet

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has partnered with Hatch Blue in a bid to identify the next generation of sustainable aquaculture farms.

Catfish production in Nigeria is hugely popular – with a booming domestic market as well as strong export sales – and currently accounts for over 80 percent of the country’s aquaculture output.

Over a decade ago, Mohammed Kyari regularly fished in Lake Chad – a large and shallow lake whose waters and surrounding territory span parts of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria’s Borno State – until 2009 when the Boko Haram insurgency started to terrorise the…

Covid-19 may have slashed India’s annual shrimp production by over 200,000 tonnes, but clever farmers should be well placed to return to profit before the year is out, according to one of the country’s leading experts.

Climate change and unsustainable practices are threatening seaweed farming in Tanzania, an industry that employs over 25,000 farmers, of whom around 80 percent are women. To help address these challenges, The Nature Conservancy is partnering with Cargill, loca…

A salmon farmer is looking to secure a patent for part of a system he developed in his own living room that is now being rolled out across 90 cages in Scotland and has had a hugely positive impact on gill health.

Despite the turbulent economic climate, Netherlands-based The Kingfish Company is expanding - and charting new waters in the USA.

The latest statistical analysis shows that the EU’s attempts to step up and revive aquaculture production have proved to be costly, and have had very limited results. We investigate why this might be the case.

Increased cultivation of sea sponges has been welcomed by the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, but sea sponge aquaculture has become a winning sustainable development strategy for women in Zanzibar.