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Alleviating poverty through aquaculture: progress, opportunities and improvements
Type: Conference Paper
Significant changes in our understanding of the interrelationships between aquaculture and poverty have occurred in the last decade. In particular, there is a growing realization that the impacts of aquaculture need to be ...
A review of inclusive business models and their application in aquaculture development
Type: Journal Article
For aquaculture to continue along its current growth trajectory and contribute towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, value chains must become more inclusive. Smallholders and other local value chain actors ...
Hilsa: Status of fishery and potential for aquaculture
Type: Book
Hilsa: Status of Fishery and Potential for Aquaculture is a proceedings book, which is edited by an international team of experts and authored by 10 international expert teams working on different disciplines of the hilsa ...
Inclusive aquaculture: business at the bottom of the aquatic pyramid
Type: Journal Article
Through a SIDA -funded project on small-scale fisheries FAO and partners have been supporting WorldFish Center research into small-scale aquaculture investment. Studies of projects in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia suggest ...
Strategies to enhance the role of fishponds in farming systems
Type: Book Chapter
This book chapter discusses the identified problems at the level of the fish, the pond and the farm. Such areas as food safety, diversificaiton, development of IAA systems interdisciplinary research as a tool are elaborated, ...
Asset or liability? Aquaculture in a natural disaster prone area
Type: Journal Article
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of aquaculture in improving a familys ability to cope with disasters like cyclones. Small-scale aquaculture is expanding in deltas globally. This work, therefore, seeks to ...
Impact of long-term training and extension support on small-scale carp polyculture farms of Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
One of the unique features of the Development of Sustainable Aquaculture Project of the WorldFish Center, Bangladesh, was the provision of 3 y of continuous training and extension in support of the fish farmers involved. ...
Evaluation of the use of fresh water by four Egyptian farms applying integrated aquaculture-agriculture: study report
Type: Report
This report describes a study done in 2010 by researchers of the WorldFish Center on water use in Egyptian farms that apply aquaculture – agriculture integration. Two of the four farms that were monitored derived the main ...
Increasing water productivity in agriculture
Type: Book Chapter
Water productivity is defined as the amount of agricultural output per unit of water depleted and can be applied to crops, trees livestock and fish. This chapter reviews challenges and opportunities to improve water ...
Smallholder aquaculture: sustaining the impact of private investment
Type: Journal Article
The growth of aquaculture - now the fastest growing food production system in the world - is increasingly attracting private investment. Much of this investment, however, is in larger enterprises and input services such ...