Aquaculture helped over 2m people escape poverty in a decade (Dhaka Tribune)

Dhaka Tribune (Bangladesh) reported on  The Making of the ‘Blue Revolution’ in Bangladesh, a new IFPRI book. IFPRI Director for South Asia and co-editor of the book, Shahidur Rashid, said Bangladesh is an excellent case study for the role of fisheries in food security. Xiaobo Zhang, co-editor stated that aquaculture could achieve a twelve-fold increase if intensive fish farming were expanded from its current, limited scope to even half of Bangladesh’s pond areas.