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    From an Island to Shelves Around the World: the Story of Azorean Canned Fish
    Water & FoodSeptember 14, 2026

    From an Island to Shelves Around the World: the Story of Azorean Canned Fish

    The island of Terceira in the Azores lies 1,500 km west of mainland Portugal, remote enough to make running a business complicated, let alone one built on delivering fresh fish to distant markets. Tibério Barbeito started TZT Flying Fish Azores in his twenties with exactly that ambition. Ten years later, with EU funding behind him, he has revived Terceira's canning industry, turning locally caught fish into gourmet canned products. He began experimenting with cold-smoking local fish species, then diversified into canning with support from Grater, the Fisheries Local Action Group. His canned products, sold under the brand Casa do Portinho, use fresh fish landed by the local fleet, including horse mackerel, Atlantic bonito, limpets, ray and barracuda.

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    Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 2026
    Water & FoodJune 25, 2026

    Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 2026

    The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway has been granted the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, as announced today by the Jury responsible for conferring said Award. Convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, the Jury for this Award was chaired by Gustavo Suarez-Pertierra and composed of several members. This candidature was put forward by Manuel Toharia Cortes, Jury member for the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is an underground seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen, in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Opened in 2008, it occupies an area of more than a thousand square metres, spread over three warehouses. Its goal is to safeguard the diversity of crop seeds in order to guarantee future supply in case of loss due to natural disasters, human conflicts, policy changes, mismanagement or any other circumstance. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is owned and administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food on behalf of the Kingdom of Norway. The Nordic Genetic Resources Center (NordGen) operates the facility and maintains a public online database of samples stored in the Vault. The Crop Trust provides financial support for Seed Vault operations and seed deposits from developing countries. Former Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon described the Vault as a "global insurance policy" and a "gift to humanity and a symbol of peace" during a visit to Svalbard in 2009. With a humanitarian purpose, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is part of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) international system for the conservation of plant genetic resources.

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    Healthy islands and islanders: Towards a new paradigm for integrating climate change, food security and nutrition in Small Island Developing States
    Water & FoodApril 8, 2026

    Healthy islands and islanders: Towards a new paradigm for integrating climate change, food security and nutrition in Small Island Developing States

    Excerpt from odi.org As climate change intensifies, small island nations are facing growing threats to their food security. This policy brief from the Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI) looks at how climate, food, and policy are often treated separately, and why that needs to change. It highlights the unique pressures shaping island food systems and sets out a roadmap for more joined-up thinking, investment, and action.

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    Cli­mate resi­li­ence and inclus­ive water access in Jamaica
    Water & FoodApril 1, 2026

    Cli­mate resi­li­ence and inclus­ive water access in Jamaica

    Excerpt from pressreader.com THROUGHOUT THE mid-20th cen­tury to the present, one of the fore­most global issues has been that of cli­mate change and its com­pound­ing impacts on the global pop­u­lus. Due to global warm­ing, modi­fic­a­tions in weather pat­terns have res­ul­ted in increased extreme weather events, unpre­dict­able water avail­ab­il­ity, and increased water scarcity (UNICEF, 2024). In Jamaica, an intens­i­fic­a­tion of hydro­cli­matic vari­ab­il­ity across sea­sons is being observed, mani­fes­ted as a shift in the island’s tra­di­tional rain­fall pat­terns. Over recent years, pre­cip­it­a­tion events have been char­ac­ter­ised by unpre­dict­able, short-dur­a­tion, high-intens­ity storms, which gen­er­ate rapid sur­face run­off rather than infilt­ra­tion and ground­wa­ter recharge. Sim­il­arly, the occur­rence of drought has become increas­ingly peri­odic. Unpre­dict­able rain­fall has also meant longer dry spells, plunging Jamaica into drought-like con­di­tions for months at a time. Dur­ing an inter­view with Dr Arpita Man­dal, senior lec­turer at the Uni­versity of the West Indies, Mona, she stressed that “increases in drought-like con­di­tions affect all sec­tors across the island”. The per­petual impacts of cli­mate change on Jamaica’s sub­stand­ard water dis­tri­bu­tion net­work spe­cific­ally, however, deep­ens island­wide water inequity. Water inequity is the unequal access to water resources and ser­vices shaped by social, eco­nomic, polit­ical, and envir­on­mental dis­par­it­ies, affect­ing vul­ner­able groups (Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Dir­ect­ory, 2025). As unpre­dict­able rain­fall and droughts occur more habitu­ally, impacts on water resources are inev­it­able, neces­sit­at­ing resi­li­ent and equit­able water-man­age­ment solu­tions for groups facing unique vul­ner­ab­il­it­ies.

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    No rivers, no lakes: Discover how Bermuda built a 400-year-old water system that still functions
    Water & FoodMarch 25, 2026

    No rivers, no lakes: Discover how Bermuda built a 400-year-old water system that still functions

    Excerpt from timesofindia.indiatimes.com Bermuda is an island in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and it has no rivers, no lakes, and no natural springs of fresh water. For more than 400 years, the islanders have been relying on a brilliant but simple idea: Every roof is a collector of drinking water. The island’s famous white, stepped roofs are not just a picturesque postcard image; they are a rainwater–harvesting system that has quietly and successfully served the islanders through storms, droughts, and centuries of change. Modern research in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) still points to Bermuda as a living example of how traditional design. The system is resilient and sustainable.

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    Fukushima town launches rice-based carbon credit project under Japan’s J-Credit scheme
    Water & FoodMarch 25, 2026

    Fukushima town launches rice-based carbon credit project under Japan’s J-Credit scheme

    Excerpt from eco-business.com Japanese agricultural decarbonisation firm Faeger said it will partner with the town of Hirono in Fukushima Prefecture to generate carbon credits from rice cultivation and develop a premium rice brand produced using climate-friendly farming methods. The agreement aims to cut agricultural greenhouse gas emissions while boosting crop quality and farmers’ incomes, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement last week. Under the partnership, farmers will extend the mid-season drainage period of paddy fields – a technique known to reduce methane emissions – and adopt other measures such as biochar use to generate government-certified J-Credits. Revenue from the credits will be reinvested in heat-resilience measures and improvements to the cultivation environment, the company said.

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    Jersey will protect over one-fifth of its waters from trawling
    Water & FoodMarch 19, 2026

    Jersey will protect over one-fifth of its waters from trawling

    Excerpt from oceanographicmagazine.com Jersey has approved one of the most ambitious marine protection plans in the British Isles, nearly quadrupling the area of its seas protected from damaging fishing practices and positioning the Island as a leader in ocean conservation across the region. The newly agreed Marine Protected Area (MPA) network will cover 21.7% of Jersey’s waters from 1 September this year, with a further 1.9% scheduled to come into force on 1 January 2030. The network safeguards a range of ecologically important habitats, including kelp forests, seagrass meadows, biodiverse reef systems, and fragile maerl beds – among the rarest and most sensitive marine habitats in the region.

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    Integrating nutrition into anticipatory action: lessons from the 2025 pilot projects in Madagascar and Mali
    Water & FoodMarch 11, 2026

    Integrating nutrition into anticipatory action: lessons from the 2025 pilot projects in Madagascar and Mali

    Excerpt from preventionweb.net Action Against Hunger (Action Contre la Faim/ACF) has published its new methodology for integrating nutrition-based activities into anticipatory action frameworks and systems. Addressing a critical gap in anticipatory action Nutrition is largely absent from anticipatory action frameworks and systems, despite the fact that obvious and rapid nutritional impacts regularly follow climate shocks. Droughts, floods and cyclones can accelerate a deterioration in people’s nutritional status, particularly in areas that are already vulnerable. Many health systems and acute-malnutrition-management programmes only intervene in response to a crisis and are often insufficiently prepared to meet increased post-shock needs. A multi-level, community-based approach to nutrition The pilot projects aimed to address this critical gap. To document the impacts on communities’ nutrition status, and the needs and capacities on which the approach could be based, ACF applied an action research methodology at three levels: community, sub-national and national. Nearly 400 community members and local and national experts were interviewed across the two countries, using a survey specially created for this initiative. Through these interviews, ACF teams were able to draft initial recommendations and actions specific to integrating nutrition into anticipatory action frameworks and systems. These were then discussed, reinforced and validated by a panel of stakeholders, authorities and community representatives during capacity-building and exchange sessions.

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    Landmark project improved farmers’ livelihoods and protected forests in Madagascar, new report finds
    Water & FoodMarch 2, 2026

    Landmark project improved farmers’ livelihoods and protected forests in Madagascar, new report finds

    Excerpt from webwire.com Findings from the impact evaluation conducted by Conservation International, in partnership with the Green Climate Fund’s Independent Evaluation Unit, found clear evidence of higher crop yields and lower deforestation rates among farming communities participating in the USD 16 million “Sustainable Landscapes in Eastern Madagascar” project. The project supported more than 24,000 smallholder farming households in and around the Ankeniheny-Zahamena and the Ambositra-Vondrozo forest corridors with climate-smart agriculture techniques, distribution of seeds and equipment, forest patrols, agroforestry promotion and forest restoration.

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