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Fish and meat are often withheld from the diets of infants 6 to 12 months in fish-farming households in rural Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Fish is a widely available animal-source food in Bangladesh and a rich source of nutrients, yet little is known about practices related to incorporating fish into the diets of infants and young children. Our study makes ...
Review of aquaculture and fish consumption in Bangladesh
Type: Working Paper
Fish play a crucial role in the Bangladeshi diet, providing more than 60% of animal source food, representing a crucial source of micro-nutrients, and possessing an extremely strong cultural attachment. Fish (including ...
Shrimp (Penaeus monodon) farming in the coastal areas of Bangladesh: Challenges and prospects towards sustainable development
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter mainly presents the history of shrimp aquaculture in Bangladesh and impacts of shrimp farming on rural livelihoods with particular focus on income and dietary consumption, based on literature reviews and ...
Role of homestead farming systems in the livelihoods and food security of poor farmers in southern Bangladesh
Type: Report
Areas in southern Bangladesh share common economic prospects but also challenges. The vast region is already undergoing adverse effects from natural disasters, such as tropical cyclones and accompanying storm surges. ...
Nutrition approaches in the Fish for Livelihoods project (Burmese version)
Type: Brief
This document is a guideline about the nutrition approaches to be followed in Fish for Livelihoods project. Development and printing of communication materials on nutrition and WASH based on the Essential Nutrition Actions ...
Maintaining diversity of integrated rice and fish production confers adaptability of food systems to global change
Type: Journal Article
Rice and fish are preferred foods, critical for healthy and nutritious diets, and provide the foundations of local and national economies across Asia. Although transformations, or “revolutions,” in agriculture and aquaculture ...
Nutrition and COVID-19
Type: Brochure
This document captures the information on basic nutrition available to consume fish, vegetables, and other nutritious food. It demonstrates that how less intake of nutrition leads to the malnutrition. Furthermore, the ...
Nutrition approaches in the Fish for Livelihoods project
Type: Manual
This document provides a common understanding among stakeholders (staff from implementing partners, WorldFish staff, donors, communities) on the approaches undertaken throughout the project. These approaches are based on ...
Small Scale Aquaculture (SSA) and COVID-19
Type: Brochure
The key steps of Small Scale Aquaculture (SSA) farming are framed in the document in a subsequntial manner. It communicates and disseminates the key information on how to generate more produce and income from SSA. In ...
LIFT_Promoting sustainable growth of aquaculture in Myanmar to improve food security and income for communities in the Ayeyarwady Delta and Central Dry Zone (MYCulture-MYFC) _October 2015 - December 2019
Type: Donor Report
The MYCulture (MYFC) project has been implemented in collaboration with DoF, NAG, GRET, PACT-Myanmar, HKI and Pan Taing Shin with funding from the Livelihood and Food Security Fund (LIFT) since 21st September 2015. The ...