Aquaculture Improvement Projects Webinar Series

This series of three webinars reviewed knowledge and learnings from ten years of developing aquaculture improvement projects (AIPs), so that industry can build on this experience to increase supply chain security and climate change resilience, and support small-holder farmers in becoming part of more resilient supply chains.

The aquaculture sector now produces more than 50 percent of the seafood consumed worldwide, and is expected to grow by up to 40 percent by 2030. To date, farm certification has been the main tool used to drive sustainability improvements on individual farms, but with only 5 percent of farms certified globally, a new approach is needed to support sustainable growth of the sector.

It is now recognized that to drive meaningful improvements, aquaculture management needs to take into consideration the cumulative impacts that many farms have on local resources. This approach is called a landscape or ecosystem-based approach. With our work on AIPs, SFP has been driving projects to achieve landscape-based improvement for more than a decade.

The webinars featured prominent speakers from around the world who shared their expertise and experience of how AIPs can lead to tangible benefits and outcomes for small-holder farmers and shrimp exporters, while increasing environmental sustainability at scale.