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How can research best serve the needs of aquaculture in subsaharan Africa?
Type: Journal Article
Discussion on whether research is the answer to best serve the needs of aquaculture in SubSaharan Africa is presented. New methods of user-participatory, on-farm research being tested by ICLARM and other agencies in Asia ...
Socioeconomic factors that influence the adoption of small-scale rural fish farming at household level in Zimbabwe
Type: Journal Article
The study compares the socioeconomic profile of fish and nonfish farming households in three different agroecological regions in Zimbabwe. Some of the direct socioeconomic factors that influence the adoption of small-scale ...
Simple aquaculture training for rural development in Zimbabwe
Type: Journal Article
A summary is provided of a course introduced in 1987 at the Chaminuka Training Centre in Zimbabwe for training in rural aquaculture. The recruitment of trainees, aquaculture and rural development, the curriculum and practical ...
Research priorities in Subsaharan smallholder freshwater aquaculture
Type: Journal Article
Subsaharan Africa is an enormously diverse region. To generalise about aquaculture development across this huge environmental and cultural expanse is virtually impossible. In addition, the available fish species, climatic ...
Constraints to aquaculture extension in rural Africa
Type: Journal Article
An examination is made of problems involved in the extension of aquaculture in traditional villages in Malawi.Aquaculture is relatively new in the country and requires technical support from very competent personnel who ...
Aquaculture potential of seahorses and pipefishes
Type: Journal Article
The characteristics, food and feeding, reproduction and breeding of sea horse and pipefishes (Synanthidae) are presented together with the aspects of syngnathid culture.
A global experiment on tilapia aquaculture: impacts of the Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture CRSP in Rwanda, Honduras, Philippines and Thailand
Type: Journal Article
The Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program (PDA/CRSP) is a global research network to generate basic science that may be used to advance aquaculture development. One of a family of research programs ...
Trends in the farming of the snakeskin gourami (Trichogaster pectoralis) in Thailand
Type: Journal Article
The production of snakeskin gourami (Trichogaster pectoralis) from wild stocks and traditional culture systems has been declining in central Thailand, although they are on the increase in modern culture practices adopted ...