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Financial Statements and Report of Independent Auditors For the Year Ended December 31, 2014
(2015)Type: ReportThis report includes the WorldFish financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013. -
Empowering community-based ecosystem approaches to fisheries management: Strategies for effective training and learning
(2015)Type: Working PaperIn March 2015, regional Pacific stakeholders and Governments engaged in collaborative planning to establish a new direction in the management of Coastal Fisheries. A New Song for Coastal Fisheries: Pathways to Change calls ... -
Climate-smart house: Housing that is cyclone resistant and food, energy and water efficient in Bangladesh
(2015)Type: BriefSince cyclones Sidr (2007) and Aila (2009), communities in southern Bangladesh have increasingly needed to protect their homes and livelihoods from destructive natural disasters. WorldFish embarked on a climate-resilient ... -
Rotational harvesting is a risky strategy for vulnerable marine animals
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleSea cucumber fisheries exemplify resource systems under intense exploitation pressure from lucrative Asian markets. Plagányi et al. (1) model the performance of rotational harvests of sea cucumbers on the Great Barrier ... -
Understanding adaptation and transformation through indigenous practice: the case of the Guna of Panama
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleResilience is emerging as a promising vehicle for improving management of social-ecological systems that can potentially lead to more sustainable arrangements between environmental and social spheres. Central to an ... -
Good governance of rice field fishery management
(2015)Type: BriefRice field fisheries refer to the capture of wild fish and other aquatic animals from flooded rice field agroecosystems and their supporting infrastructure, such as canals, channels, streams and other bodies of water. ... -
Vertical agriculture: Homestead horticulture suspended in sacks
(2015)Type: BriefSuspending horticulture in sacks above the ground can result in higher levels of productivity for vegetables when the challenges of unfertile or saline soil, flooding, waterlogging, and land and water constraints are ... -
Community-based, co-management for governing small-scale fisheries of the Pacific: A Solomon Islands' case study
(2015)Type: Book ChapterThe discourse on solutions to address small-scale fisheries concerns in the Pacific tends to focus heavily on community-based forms of co-management. Decentralizing governance to the community level permits responsiveness ... -
Understanding leadership in the environmental sciences
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleLeadership is often assumed, intuitively, to be an important driver of sustainable development. To understand how leadership is conceptualized and analyzed in the environmental sciences and to discover what this research ... -
Promising practices in food security and nutrition assistance to vulnerable households in the Tonle Sap Region, Cambodia
(2015)Type: ReportThe CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) seeks to reduce poverty and improve food security for many small-scale fishers and farmers who are dependent on aquatic agriculture systems by partnering ... -
Vulnerability of coastal livelihoods to shrimp farming: Insights from Mozambique
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleMillions of people around the world depend on shrimp aquaculture for their livelihoods. Yet, the phenomenal growth of shrimp farming has often given rise to considerable environmental and social damage. This article examines ... -
Fish, sediment and dams in the Mekong
(2015)Type: BookThe Mekong River is home to the largest inland fishery in the world, which is due in part to its exceptional sediment and nutrient loads. The number of dams in the Basin is expected to increase from 16 in the year 2000 to ... -
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleUp-to-date evidence about levels and trends in disease and injury incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) is an essential input into global, regional, and national health policies. In the Global Burden ... -
School holidays: examining childhood, gender norms, and kinship in childrens shorter-term residential mobility in urban Zambia
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleThis article discusses a practice of child residential mobility in Zambia that is frequently overlooked in migration studies and difficult to capture through standard survey methods: the practice of going on holiday to the ... -
Exploring Indonesian aquaculture futures
(2015)Type: ReportAquaculture is the fastest-growing food production sector globally, with production projected to double within the next 15-20 years. Future growth of aquaculture is essential to providing sustainable supplies of fish in ... -
Portable ponds for communities in need
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleTo address the extreme food insecurity of the poor households in Bangladesh, WorldFish has designed a portable small pond which can hold fish in it and at the same time, provide water for horticulture. Trials began in 2014 ... -
Contagious exploitation of marine resources
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleRising global demand for seafood presents challenges for managing marine resources, many of which are declining or threatened. The authors describe a new and rapid pattern of contagious marine resource exploitation, which ... -
Gender integration in aquaculture research and technology adoption processes: Lessons learned in Bangladesh
(2015)Type: Working PaperThis working paper is part of a review of aquaculture technologies and gender in Bangladesh in the period 1990 to 2014. It assesses how gender has been integrated within past aquaculture technology interventions, before ... -
Risk analysis in aquaculture: A step-by-step introduction with worked examples
(2015)Type: ManualThis publication is based on materials covered and outputs generated during the Workshop on Risk Assessment Methodologies and Tools for Aquaculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, which was jointly held by WorldFish and FAO in ... -
Cambodias fisheries: a decade of changes and evolution
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleHow have capture fisheries in Cambodia changed over the past decade? This article compares fish diversity, catches, consumption as well as livelihood strategies and fisheries arrangements as documented by two studies ...
