The One Food programme team at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) recently visited the FAO head office in Rome, Italy to co-lead a collaborative workshop on multi-hazard monitoring and …
Author: Amy Anderson (MMO) In October, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO)’s Global Marine Team undertook a deployment to Madagascar under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP). The Ocean Country Partnership Programme is a bilateral technical assistance and capacity building programme …
In October, the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) team from Cefas visited the Maldives to enhance local expertise in the collection of data from fishers, water quality monitoring and OSPAR methods of beach monitoring. The visit began with adverse weather …
World AMR Awareness Week 2024 takes place this week, 18-24th November, a global campaign to raise awareness and understanding of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and to promote best practices to reduce the emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections. Antimicrobial resistance occurs …
Authors: Peter Randall, Charlotte Reeve, Alessandra Bielli, Bryan-Goodsir Thompson, Kelly Bateman, Angharad Elliman Through the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP), Sri Lanka and the UK are collaborating to tackle the three key challenges of marine biodiversity, marine pollution and sustainable …
Authors: Julie Bremner (Cefas), Grant Stentiford (Cefas), Flavie Vial (APHA), Essa Suleman (CSIR) The UK government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) recently attended the 8th World One Health Congress (WOHC) …
Every new industry or technology requires funding to survive, initially for research and development (R&D), developing processes and products, and then to scaling up to a viable business. A lot of the initial research is supported by public funding, which …
By Clement Garcia and Frances Mynott, Cefas leads of the mNCEA programme. The Cefas-led project, ‘A seascape natural capital approach for sustainable management (Seascapes)’, is part of a 3-year Defra funded marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (mNCEA) programme. mNCEA …
With increasing concerns around food security in the face of growing populations, climate change and recent global events, such as the Ukraine invasion, the UK government is turning their attention to new and innovative ways of meeting future food demands …
Coastal areas of the Channel Manche region (between England and France) have an excess level of nutrients (such as nitrogen) from river run-off and urban discharges, which causes excessive growth of green algal mats. Seaweeds will begin to build up …
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