Creating positive impact for people, planet and progress
Together with our partners, we’re working to develop sustainable business models around low-carbon products and living wages in aquaculture supply chains.
Maximising the economic, social and environmental benefits of aquaculture
Aquaculture is the fastest-growing form of food production on earth. Aquaculture can provide healthy, high-quality food with limited environmental impact, creating jobs and prosperity if done sustainably.
Aquaculture offers a promising alternative to meat production with a lower environmental footprint, but it also presents challenges, such as a potentially high carbon and biodiversity footprint due to deforestation linked to feed ingredients. Also, it is not always known whether workers in the sector earn a living wage.
At IDH, we strive to transform the aquaculture industry into a low-carbon sector, paying living wages to its workers who deliver healthy food while preserving the planet. By collaborating with our partners, we prioritise implementing best practices like better measuring carbon and wages and ensuring access to deforestation-free and conversion-free feed, all aimed at reducing environmental impact and improving wages.
“The Aquaculture Working Group helps us understand our footprint by providing a consistent environmental footprint tool for aquaculture, which didn’t exist before, and by learning from each other how to collect, process, and use the data.”
Sustainability Director, Seafresh Group
Our initiatives in aquaculture
We work with the shrimp, pangasius and tilapia supply chains.
Program
Find out moreAquaculture Working Group on Environmental Footprint
The group consists of companies working together to better measure and reduce the environmental footprint of Aquaculture.
Program
Find out moreWorking Conditions in Seafood Processing in Vietnam
Vietnam's seafood workers face long hours, low wages, poor work conditions. Better conditions & collective bargaining improve productivity.
News & Resources
The latest updates from our work in the aquaculture sector
Reducing the Environmental Footprint of the Aquaculture Industry in the Mekong Delta
Dutch Ministers and Companies on a Trade Mission to Vietnam
