Research news | 2023-02-22

Blue foods can help solve multiple global challenges

Blue foods – fish, shellfish, algae and aquatic plants – can be instrumental in solving multiple global crises, new analysis shows

Research news | 2022-11-14

In data scarce regions, fieldwork and historical images help researchers fill in the gaps

Researchers combined current data with historical images and inputs from previous studies to estimate how ecosystem services have changed over time in northern Burkina Faso

Research news | 2021-09-15

For healthier and more sustainable diets, look to fisheries and aquaculture

Blue Food Assesssment finds fish, shellfish and algae offer untapped potential for global development if the right policies and investments are put in place

Research news | 2020-05-27

Fishing is more than just harvesting, time to broaden the focus

Broadening the analytical focus beyond harvesting is necessary in order to imagine new ways of governing the commons

Research news | 2020-04-01

How craftsmanship connects people, nature and knowledge

What we can learn from a Samí crafts artist and a fisher from Stockholm about connections between local ecological knowledge, work, technology and sustainability

Research news | 2020-03-06

A long history of unsustainable fisheries

How Swedish archipelago fishers have come to depend on a species threatened by extinction

Research news | 2019-05-22

Can’t see the forest for the laws

The European Union Timber Regulation fails to protect biodiversity and the human rights of local people

Research news | 2018-12-09

Capital punishment

Amid transitions from swidden agriculture to market-driven oil palm plantations, women remain disadvantaged when it comes to access to land, labour and social capital

Research news | 2018-03-08

Landscapes with benefits

New method to map livelihood benefits of ecosystem services for guiding future land use decisions in the Sahel

Research news | 2018-01-29

Broadening the definition of a povery trap

Review study of poverty traps examines the concept’s use across disciplines, and how it is defined and applied in a rural context

Research news | 2017-11-27

Not reaping the fruits

What plantain farmers in Costa Rica can teach us about the inconsistent links between access to ecosystem services and well-being

Research news | 2017-05-03

Modelling in Mexico

How modellers and field experts joined forces to develop agent-based models that account for complex human interactions

Research news | 2017-03-09

Untangling the net of small-scale fisheries trade

Study looks at relationships within small-scale fishery market systems, moving beyond economics transactions and fisher-trader connections

Research news | 2016-11-30

Enhancing livelihoods while governing natural resources

WorldFish partners with SwedBio to respond to a new regional coastal fishery policy in the Pacific

Research news | 2016-11-10

A patchwork of benefits

New method based on social-ecologically defined patches assess ecosystem services’ role for livelihoods in poor rural areas

Research news | 2015-05-19

Uncomfortable truths

Ecosystem management that ignores "taboo tradeoffs" is likely to fail

Research news | 2013-06-25

Measuring the immeasurable

New approach can make target on protecting crucial ecosystem services easier to assess

Research news | 2013-06-04

Don't blame the fishers

Market agents wield great influence over fishers' activities

Research news | 2013-05-24

Supporting poor communities in Mozambique and Kenya

Centre to co-host new project on ecosystems and human wellbeing