Where We Work
A Hungry World Needs Fish has founded 200 diffrent fish farms and hope to establish many many more. We want the focus to be on counrties that have the resource right next to them; an unopened treasure chest. Our first fish farm is situated in the Philippines and was started by our founders and a small Filipino family. This farm now helps feed over 80 different families. This does not seem like much but to those 80 families it is a difference between life and death.
174 of our farms are in the Philippines. We did not only choose the Philippines because they are surround by water but also because it is one of the world's most disaster-prone countries. Current issues in the Philippines are armed conflict, natural disasters and poverty. “It is estimated that more than 1.3 million small-scale fishers, the poorest sector in the Philippines, depend on these waters for their livelihood. With an annual marine catch of more than two million metric tons, the country ranks 14th in the world for fisheries.”(5)
A Hunger World Needs Fish with the help of the World Food Programme decided to step in and help.
26 very successful and continuously growing fish farms have been establish in Mozambique. As one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, Mozambique is highly vulnerable to extreme climate conditions. While the Southern and Central regions are prone to droughts, floods occur every two to three years along the major river basins and in poorly drained urban settlements. "More than 60 percent of the population lives in coastal areas."(4)
Here are just some photos of people working at their local fish farms.
A Hunger World Needs Fish with the help of the World Food Programme decided to step in and help.
26 very successful and continuously growing fish farms have been establish in Mozambique. As one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, Mozambique is highly vulnerable to extreme climate conditions. While the Southern and Central regions are prone to droughts, floods occur every two to three years along the major river basins and in poorly drained urban settlements. "More than 60 percent of the population lives in coastal areas."(4)
Here are just some photos of people working at their local fish farms.
How We Work
A Hungry World Needs Fish strives to build communal, viable fish farms. We started with research, together with Ocean, the largest international advocacy organization focused solely on ocean conservation, we decided that our fish farms had to reflect the same environment and conditions that a real school of fish would live in. Then we joined forces with World Food Programme, WFP, to find places that needed or asked for our help.
Once a location is decided upon we visit the community and see what exactly they need. Some of the communities that we have helped simply needed the supplies to get going, others requested to be educated about the topic and from their new found knowledge build their farms. A Hungry World Needs Fish is ready to supply the knowledge, resources and care needed to build the healthiest, most resourceful and happy fish farms.
Once a location is decided upon we visit the community and see what exactly they need. Some of the communities that we have helped simply needed the supplies to get going, others requested to be educated about the topic and from their new found knowledge build their farms. A Hungry World Needs Fish is ready to supply the knowledge, resources and care needed to build the healthiest, most resourceful and happy fish farms.
Why So Small ?Most of our fish farms feed 50 to 80 families. Yes, this does seem like a small amount but most households in the areas that we help consist of 5 to 10 people. We wish to keep our farms small and run by few families to keep to the natural consistency of fish in the region. The more farms the we start the more we help build and feed communities.
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Who Do We Work With ?The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger.
A Hungry World Needs Fish and WFP work together to stop world hunger. Oceana,the largest international advocacy organization focused solely on ocean conservation, helped A Hungry World Needs Fish find out what we could achieve with the power of community fish farming.
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