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General guidelines on better management practices for fish production systems in Delta and Ogun States, Nigeria
Type: Manual
The manual was produced for the benefit of farmers, as well as relevant government ministries, departments and agencies, veterinarians and extension officers intending to help farms with the setup of biosecurity facilities ...
Fish in food systems in Nigeria: A review
Type: Report
In Nigeria, like many coastal developing countries, fish is an important source of food for the population, which is currently estimated at 186 million people (World Bank 2016). A recent study estimated that Nigeria ranks ...
Women and youth participation and empowerment in aquaculture: Mixed-Methods Evidence from Ghana
Type: Presentation
Ghana aquaculture is among the fastest growing, and now the second largest tilapia producer in Africa, next to Egypt. The objectives of this study are: to characterize the role of women and youth as owners,
managers, and ...
COVID-19 impacts and adaptations in Asia and Africa’s aquatic food value chains
Type: Working Paper
We tracked the impacts of COVID-19 on aquatic food value chains in Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Myanmar and Nigeria during 2020. We assessed the availability and price of aquatic foods and production inputs using a high ...
Understanding aquaculture biosecurity to improve catfish disease management in Ogun and Delta States, Nigeria
Type: Journal Article
Nigeria is one of Africa's largest aquaculture producers with catfish and tilapia being dominantly farmed. However, the lack of biosecurity and an unclear aquatic animal health strategy have resulted in substantial ...
CIAT | Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA Project) - MALI. Online technical report: January 2023 to December 2023
Type: Donor Report
AICCRA-Mali aims to strengthen the technical,
institutional, and human capacity required to accelerate the wide-scale adoption of climate-smart
agriculture and climate information services packages by hundreds of thousands ...
Identifying leverage points to promote women’s economic resilience to climate change challenges in Tanzania – Fish value chain
Type: Report
The goal of HER+ is to build the economic resilience of women to climate change challenges in agri-food systems (AFS) through gender equality and social inclusion. In February 2023, the HER+ team studied how gender norms ...
Local Fabrication and installation of Improved Fish Drying Racks to Promote Women’s Participation
Type: Report
This detailed activity report outlines the comprehensive approach taken to construct drying racks. This technology can promote women’s fish processors’ participation in the fisheries value chain and their economic resilience ...
Best Management Practices guidelines for small scale tilapia cage aquaculture in Ghana and Nigeria
Type: Manual
Africa accounts for about 7% of the world’s total fish production (FAO 2020). Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), a native of Africa, is the third-most farmed fish species in the world (FAO 2020) and is consumed worldwide ...
Endowments, expectations, and the value of food safety certification: experimental evidence from fish markets in Nigeria
Type: Journal Article
We study the impact of endowments and expectations on reference point formation and measure the value of food safety certification in the context of fish trading on real markets in Nigeria. In our field experiment, consumers ...