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Stephen Hall

Stephen J. Hall, WorldFish director general, previously headed the Australian Institute of Marine Science and was a member of the prime minister’s Steering Committee on Mapping Australia’s Innovation System from 2003 to 2004. A former professor of marine biology at Flinders University in Adelaide, Hall has published extensive scientific and development research on tropical fisheries and aquaculture.

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Contributor: Stephen Hall
Contributor: Stephen Hall
Can global fisheries yield more?
28 Apr 2014
Despite decades of overfishing, we still haven't reached the limits of what the oceans can provide to feed the developing world. WorldFish Director General Stephen Hall explains how in a guest opinion after last week's Global Oceans Action Summit for Food Security and Blue Growth.
Contributor: Stephen Hall
Contributor: Stephen Hall
How aid can support sustainable fisheries for a food-secure world
21 Nov 2013
Small-scale fishermen supply over half of the catch consumed around the world and support 500 million people. Sustainable fishing is the key to future food security — and the aid community can do much more to help, WorldFish Director General Stephen Hall writes in a guest opinion for Devex on World Fisheries Day.
Contributors: Stephen Hall and Ranjitha Puskur
Contributors: Stephen Hall and Ranjitha Puskur
Rural women feed the world, but cannot feed themselves
15 Oct 2013
Today, Oct. 15, is International Rural Women’s Day. In this exclusive editorial, Stephen Hall and Ranjitha Puskur of WorldFish recommend ways on how to create a gender-equitable agriculture.
Contributor: Stephen J. Hall
Contributor: Stephen J. Hall
Good fisheries policies help the poor
25 Jul 2013
Fish is a key source of nutrition, income and food security for millions of poor and vulnerable people around the world. In an exclusive opinion for Devex, WorldFish Director General Stephen Hall argues that current fisheries policies are “missing the picture” and explains why donors should include this issue in the rural development agenda.
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