Manuel
Fisheries andAquaculture Department
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Italy
Biography
Professor Manuel Barange is Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy and Resources Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter, UK, a past Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Science at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK, and past Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). In recent years he has been very active in leading research on the development of quantitative tools to estimate the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems, their resources, and their dependent communities, globally, regionally and nationally. He has become an expert in understanding the two-way relationship between environmental and societal change, has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and has edited several books. In 2010 he was awarded the UNESCO-IOC Roger Revelle Medal for his contributions to ocean science.
Research Interest
Agri and Aquaculture
