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AfDB_Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)_Quarterly Project Performance Reporting April – June 2019
Type: Donor ReportThis report covers implementation activities in seven countries namely Burundi, Cote D'Ivoire, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Benin and Zambia. The Aquaculture Compact during the second quarter of 2019 continued planned activities ... -
AfDB_Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)_Quarterly Project Performance Reporting January to March 2019
Type: Donor ReportThe Aquaculture compact quarterly report covers January- March 2019 with detailed implementation activities in six countries namely Burundi, Cameroon,Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia. The national partners range from ... -
AfDB_Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)_Quarterly Project Performance Reporting July – September 2019
Type: Donor ReportThe third quarter 2019 report covers implementation activities in eight countries namely Burundi, Cote D'Ivoire, Cameroon, DRCongo, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia. Aquaculture compact in collaboration with IFAD under the ... -
AfDB_Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)_Quarterly Project Performance Reporting Q3_ July – September 2021
(2021)Type: Donor ReportThe procurement process of equipment supplies to implementing countries in Burundi, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Tanzania, and Zambia continued in collaboration with ... -
AfDB_Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)_Quarterly Project Performance Reporting Q4_ October – December 2021
(2021)Type: Donor ReportThe procurement process of equipment supplies to implementing countries in Burundi, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Tanzania, and Zambia was concluded in collaboration ... -
Affordable local ingredients for fish feeds in low-income contexts: A social and gender risk and opportunity analysis
(2022)Type: Working PaperAquaculture’s contribution to food and nutrition security and also poverty reduction can be viewed in three ways: (1) as a direct source of food, including protein and essential micronutrients, (2) as a source of employment ... -
Africa Aquaculture Research and Training Center (AARTC)
(2017)Type: BrochureThe Africa Aquaculture Research and Training Center is a regional center of excellence for research, training and fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in the African aquaculture sector. Opened in 1998, the WorldFish-run ... -
Africa's age of aquarium : the dawning of ornamental fish culture - a high value livelihood option for vulnerable communities
(2005)Type: BrochureA forward-looking community service organization (CSO) in Cameroon dedicated to sustainable development and environmental protection, Organisation pour l’Environnement et le Developpement Durable (OPED), has enlisted the ... -
Africa's age of aquarium: farming ornamental fish in the rainforest of West Africa to improve livelihoods of the poor
(2007)Type: BriefThe ornamental fish trade has great scope for development. At present it is dominated by a small number of middle-men with little focus on sustainability or careful management of fish. This “Lessons Learned” document ... -
African Aquaculture: Genetic Resource and Traditional Knowledge Access and Benefit Sharing Measures
(2022)Type: Journal ArticleGenetic resources are the building blocks for aquaculture breeding programs, biotechnology and conservation. The Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol are international frameworks for access and benefit ... -
African aquaculture: realizing the potential
(2008)Type: Journal ArticleDespite 40 years of research and development, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, aquaculture is struggling to realize its high biophysical potential in Africa. Hampered by ineffective institutional arrangements and ... -
African freshwater fisheries: what needs to be managed?
(2002)Type: Journal ArticleThe management of African freshwater fisheries in Southern African Development Coordination (SADC) countries is discussed. Changes in catch and fishing effort in the SADC freshwater fisheries in the past 50 years, the main ... -
The African Great Lakes Regional Food System; the contribution of fisheries and the case of small pelagic fishes. A Discussion Paper
(2021)Type: BriefThe aim of this discussion paper is synthesis of existing policy and strategic commitments that have been made already that implicate the fisheries for small pelagic fish. The Discussion Paper also presents some historical ... -
African women join forces to overcome COVID-19 challenges in aquatic food systems
Type: BlogAcross Africa, women working in aquatic food value chains are banding together to support their livelihoods and ensure the continued flow of fish despite COVID-19 lockdowns and disruptions. -
After Sinarapan: the planned small-scale fish cage industry of Lake Buhi
(1982)Type: Journal ArticleThe cage culture of tilapia in Lake Buhi is described. The industry was set up in June 1979 following theexhaustion of the sinarapan fishery of the lake. The successful growth of the industry, together with the problems ... -
Age and growth of three species of Lake Victoria fish determined by means of otolith daily growth rings
(1995)Type: Journal ArticleThe sagittal otoliths of Lates niloticus, Haplochromis obesus, and Oreochromis niloticus from Lake Victoria were examined for daily growth rings using scanning electron microscopy. In the three species the increments were ... -
Age determination in tropical fish
(1994)Type: Journal ArticleThis essay presents evidence that check marks on the hard parts of tropical fishes can be used for aging these, in spite of the small seasonal temperature and other environmental oscillations prevailing in the tropics. The ... -
Age- or length-based methods of growth estimation. What drives the choice?
(2003)Type: Journal ArticleBased upon a global comparison of over 400 fisheries, the Principal Components Analysis (PCA) methodology was used to identify factors affecting the choice of growth estimation methods. Of the six factors examined, the ... -
Agile Strategy: Output from AquaData Workshop
(2022)Type: ReportWorldFish and AgUnity conducted a workshop for the AquaData initiative from 15 November to 17 November 2022. This document outlines some of the key outputs from those three days and the minimum viable product that emerged ... -
Agonistic behaviour and feed efficiency in juvenile Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus
(2019)Type: Journal ArticleThe main hypothesis of the present study was that an aggressive and dominant fish would eat more feed and would be more efficient. To test this hypothesis, estimations of the relationships between agonistic behaviour, ...
