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Harnessing Machine Learning to Estimate Aquaculture’s Contributions to The Economy of Southwest Bangladesh
Type: Presentation
The presentation detailed the use of machine learning techniques to extract information from freely available satellite images and estimate the area of waterbodies used for aquaculture in seven districts in southern ...
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 ...
Farming fish in the sea will not nourish the world
Type: Journal Article
Recent literature on marine fish farming brands it as potentially compatible with sustainable resource use, conservation, and human nutrition goals, and aligns with the emerging policy discourse of ‘blue growth’. We advance ...
Harnessing the diversity of small-scale actors is key to the future of aquatic food systems
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture (SSFA) provide livelihoods for over 100 million people and sustenance for ~1 billion people, particularly in the Global South. Aquatic foods are distributed through diverse supply ...
Profitability and adoption of improved shrimp farming technologies in the aquatic agricultural systems of southwestern Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
This paper assesses factors influencing adoption of new shrimp aquaculture technologies within aquatic-agricultural farming systems in southwestern Bangladesh. The impacts of three new technologies were assessed: two ...
Sustainable commoditization of seafood
Type: Concept Note
Debates on seafood in the Global South tend to prioritize food security, whereas debates on seafood in the Global North emphasize sustainability. We track the evolution of both debates and propose the concept of ‘sustainable ...
GIZ | Taking nutrition-sensitive carp-SIS polyculture technology to scale. Progress report: March 2021 to December 2021
Type: Donor Report
Fish is an irreplaceable source of micronutrients in diets in many developing countries, where large numbers of vulnerable people belong to 'fish dependent' populations. Previous WorldFish research has demonstrated that ...
The evolution of aquatic agricultural systems in Southwest Bangladesh in response to salinity and other drivers of change
Type: Journal Article
Aquatic agricultural systems (AAS) in coastal Southwest Bangladesh have evolved in response to a number of stimuli and constraints including improving market access, technological change, and salinization. Farming systems ...
Breaking with the past? The politics of land restitution and the limits to restitutive justice in Myanmar
Type: Journal Article
Land reforms, which include restitution and redistribution of land, often accompany political transitions, as new regimes attempt to break with the past by establishing new modes of governance. The political transition ...
Mississippi State University Harnessing Machine Learning to Estimate Aquaculture Production and Value Chain Performance in Bangladesh Annual Report April to September 2020
Type: Donor Report
The Harnessing Machine Learning for Better Aquaculture project began operations on April 1, 2020.
The project is implemented by Michigan State University (MSU) in partnership with Bangladesh
Agricultural University (BAU), ...