It’s a piece of fish farming that often gets overlooked, but Dr. Thad Jackson believes aquaponics, especially on a small scale, is what will keep the world turning.

Jackson, executive vice-president of international pioneering solutions NGO INMED Partnerships for Children, is worried about the billion or so people who live in communities where food is scarce or difficult to acquire.

“If we could help these at-risk communities find ways to produce healthy food for consumption and ideally for income generation, we would make significant inroads to reducing world hunger,” Jackson told Fish Farming International.