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Foyers ruraux, ecosystemes agricoles et gestion des ressources rurales: un guide pour elargir nos conceptions de la sexospecificite et des systemes d'exploitation
(1997)Type: BriefThe guidebook attempts to broaden thinking about gender and farming systems. These concepts are explored to widen understanding of the complex relationships that comprise households, agroecosystems and the way rural ... -
Framework Report for incorporating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) elements in Climate Information Services (CIS)
(2022)Type: Internal ReportClimate Information Services have an opportunity to increase smallholder farmers' resilience against climate change and climate variability whilst enhancing their livelihoods. The AICCRA Zambia project through the agricultural ... -
A framework to guide research engagement in the policy process, with application to small-scale fisheries
(2022)Type: Journal ArticleResearch-engaged decision making and policy reform processes are critical to advancing resilience, adaptation, and transformation in social-ecological systems under stress. Here we propose a new conceptual framework to ... -
Freshwater fish seed resources and supply: Africa regional synthesis
(2007)Type: Book ChapterThe availability and quality of fingerlings for stocking in aquaculture ponds have repeatedly been identified as a key constraint to the development of aquaculture in Africa. Government hatcheries have generally failed to ... -
Freshwater fish seed resources in Cameroon
(2007)Type: Book ChapterThe climate, land and water resources of Cameroon, combined with the high demand for fisheries products, makes this Central African country a high potential area for aquaculture. Fingerling availability and quality have ... -
Freshwater pearl culture in India
(1997)Type: Journal ArticleFreshwater pearl culture is growing as a source of employment and income in many Southeast Asian countries. Bangladesh, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam have initiated freshwater pearl culture projects in recent years. ... -
Freshwater prawn farming trials in Bangladesh
(1990)Type: Journal ArticleDetails are given of pond trials conducted in Bangladesh regarding the culture of freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii ). Integrated rice and prawn farming systems were also experimented and results indicated that ... -
Freshwater resources conservation: an action-oriented overview
(2003)Type: Book ChapterBiodiversity in rivers and wetlands is very seriously at risk as evident from the fact that 63% of freshwater fish species in South Africa, 42% of those in Europe and 27% of those in North America have become extinct, ... -
From conflict to collaboration in natural resource management: A handbook and toolkit for practitioners working in aquatic resource systems
(2014)Type: ManualNatural resource management is closely linked to conflict management, prevention and resolution. Managing natural resources involves reconciling diverging interests that often lead to conflict, which can undermine management ... -
From drawing board to dining table: the success story of the GIFT project
(2004)Type: Journal ArticleAs compared to crops and livestock, the genetic enhancement of fish is in its infancy. While significant progress has been achieved in the genetic improvement of temperate fish such as salmonids, no efforts were made until ... -
From global to local: testing the potential of cross-scaling in global data sets
(2009)Type: Journal ArticleThe present study investigates the potential of readily available and easily accessible global data sets to understand regional/local level interactions in wetland systems. The biogeographical zones of India were used a ... -
From happy hour to hungry hour: Logging, fisheries and food security in Malaita, Solomon Islands
(2018)Type: ReportThe Solomon Islands Government (SIG) has followed a logging-based development strategy for the past three decades. Despite widespread acknowledgment of the unsustainable nature of logging throughout the country and increasing ... -
From participation to governance : a critical review of the concepts of governance, co-management and participation, and their implementation in small-scale inland fisheries in developing countries
(2006)Type: Working PaperThis report reviews the role, nature and mechanisms of governance in inland fisheries. We do so by reviewing first the wider issues of governance, participation and co-management in natural resource management, and then ... -
From researcher to farmer: partnerships in integrated aquaculture-agriculture systems in Malawi and Cameroon
(2011)Type: Journal ArticleThe potential for integrating aquaculture with agriculture has been widely recognized as a means of improving the use of inputs, diversifying output and economic opportunity, and enabling smallholder producers to maintain ... -
From sound economics to sound management: practical solutions to small-scale fisheries governance in the developing world
(2008)Type: Journal ArticleThis is a commentary on Daniel Bromley's paper (The crisis in ocean governance: conceptual confusion, spurious economics, political indifference). Taking into consideration the varied context of small-scale fisheries in ... -
From strategy to action: ICLARM's medium term plan 1994-1998
(1993)Type: ReportICLARM was established in 1975 by the Rockefeller Foundation with a mandate to maintain and operate an international aquatic resources center. The Center was incorporated in the Philippines in 1977. Since that time ICLARM ... -
From the basics to emerging diagnostic technologies: What is on the horizon for tilapia disease diagnostics?
(2023)Type: Journal ArticleTilapia is an affordable protein source farmed in over 140 countries with the majority of production in low- and middle-income countries. Intensification of tilapia farming has exacerbated losses caused by emerging and ... -
From women in fisheries to gender and fisheries
(2002)Type: Conference PaperThis paper traces the sequence of events leading to the involvement of the Asian Fisheries Society and ICLARM The World Fish Center, in the Women in Fisheries program and to the move towards Gender and Fisheries initiatives. ... -
Fry production of Shire River tilapia Oreochromis shiranus at two broodstock sex ratios
(1997)Type: Journal ArticleOptimal sex ratio in tilapia breeding ponds depends upon stocking density. However, under certain circumstances, altering the male: female sex ratio from a more or less natural 1:1 to 1:2 or even higher has been shown to ... -
FTT smoker operation and testing protocol guidelines
Type: ManualThis English language guide, illustrated with diagrams, describes i) how to operate an FAO-Thiaroye Processing Technique (FTT) improved fish smoker constructed in Kale Township, Sagaing Region of Myanmar, ii) details a ...
