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{{Short description|Organization}} {{Multiple issues| {{advert|date=May 2015}} {{Notability|Org|date=November 2023}} {{Primary sources|date=November 2023}} }} {{Infobox organization | name = WorldFish | logo = WorldFish logo.svg | logo_size = 200px | caption = | map = | msize = | mcaption = | abbreviation = | formation = 1975 | type = International organization | status = | purpose = Research | headquarters = [[Penang, Malaysia]] | location = | region_served = Worldwide | membership = [[FishBase Consortium]] | language = | leader_title = | leader_name = | main_organ = | parent_organization = [[Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research]] | affiliations = | num_staff = | num_volunteers = | budget = | website = {{URL|http://www.worldfishcenter.org/}} | remarks = }} The '''International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management''' ('''ICLARM'''), also known as '''WorldFish''', is an international organization working to transform aquatic food systems to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. Based in [[Penang|Penang, Malaysia]], WorldFish is a member of [[CGIAR]], which unites international organizations engaged in research about food security<ref name="One CGIAR">{{cite web|url=https://www.cgiar.org/research/research-centers/|title=Research Centers|publisher=CGIAR}}</ref> and has a presence in 20 countries throughout [[Africa]], [[Asia]] and the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific Region]].<ref name="Strategy">{{cite web|url=https://worldfishcenter.org/strategy-2030/|title=Strategy 2030|publisher=WorldFish}}</ref> WorldFish has introduced technologies to ramp up local aquatic food production through a network of partners. Such innovations include the development of "genetically improved farmed tilapia" (GIFT) and an enhanced strain of [[Nile tilapia]], in support of [[smallholding|smallhold]] [[aquaculture]] farmers in the [[Global North and Global South|Global South]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-10-01|title=Genetically improved farmed tilapia helps address world hunger|url=https://www.hatcheryinternational.com/genetically-improved-farmed-tilapia-fingerlings-gifted-to-in-1015/|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Hatchery International|language=en-US}}</ref>
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