Publication: Integrating Aquaculture into Landscapes and Seascapes: Enhancing Aquaculture Sustainability with Innovations in Ecofriendly Aquafeeds
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2025-08-13
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2025-09-11
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This report, Enhancing Aquaculture Sustainability with Innovations in Ecofriendly Aquafeeds, brings together a set of case studies and analyses designed to enable World Bank task team leaders (TTLs) and client teams explore how sustainable, ecofriendly aquafeeds—particularly those incorporating alternative ingredients—can enhance the environmental, economic, and social sustainability of aquaculture systems. It provides a comprehensive analysis of aquafeed sector development across nascent, emerging, and mature markets, offering investment guidance and technical insights to support climate-resilient, inclusive, and circular aquaculture growth models. The goal is to help teams make informed decisions, develop effective project strategies, and contribute to the improvement of food security, nutrition, job creation, climate change mitigation, biodiversity enhancement, and other objectives in their respective aquaculture projects.
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“World Bank. 2025. Integrating Aquaculture into Landscapes and Seascapes: Enhancing Aquaculture Sustainability with Innovations in Ecofriendly Aquafeeds. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/43703 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.”
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