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“Essential non-essentials”: COVID-19 policy missteps in Nigeria rooted in persistent myths about African food supply chains
Type: Journal Article
Food supply chains are extremely important for food access and livelihoods across Africa, but their role is
often overlooked and underappreciated. Under normal conditions, the gap between myth and reality can result in the ...
Can individual feed conversion ratio at commercial size be predicted from juvenile performance in individually reared Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus?
Type: Journal Article
Feed conversion ratio (FCR), the ratio between feed intake and body weight gain, is of major interest for improving aquaculture sustainability through reduced feed costs and environmental impacts. Demonstrating whether FCR ...
The Ontologies Community of Practice: A CGIAR Initiative for Big Data in Agrifood Systems
Type: Journal Article
Digital technology use in agriculture and agrifood systems research accelerates the production of multidisciplinary data, which spans genetics, environment, agroecology, biology, and socioeconomics. Quality labeling of ...
Valuing small fish from mosquito nets: A comment on Jones & Unsworth (2019)
Type: Journal Article
A critique of a paper in Ambio that labels the capture of small fish as unsustainable without adequate consideration of the dynamics of fish populations.
A systematic literature review of the major factors causing yield gap by affecting growth, feed conversion ratio and survival in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
Type: Journal Article
Productivity among small‐ and medium‐scale tilapia farms varies considerably. The difference between the best performers and lower ones (yield gap), is affected by differences in growth rate and feed conversion ratio (FCR). ...
Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from global aquaculture
Type: Journal Article
Global aquaculture makes an important contribution to food security directly (by increasing food availability and accessibility) and indirectly (as a driver of economic development). In order to enable sustainable expansion ...
Coevolutionary governance of antibiotic and pesticide resistance
Type: Journal Article
Development of new biocides has dominated human responses to evolution of antibiotic and pesticide resistance. Increasing and uniform biocide use, the spread of resistance genes, and the lack of new classes of compounds ...
Sex determination in the GIFT strain of tilapia is controlled by a locus in linkage group 23
Type: Journal Article
Tilapias (Family Cichlidae) are the second most important group of aquaculture species in the world. They have been the subject of much research on sex determination due to problems caused by early maturation in culture ...