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Evolution of shrimp aquaculture systems in the coastal zones of Bangladesh and Vietnam: a comparison
Type: Book Chapter
Based on on-farm surveys implemented in the Ganges Delta in Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, the dynamics of shrimp aquaculture in salinity-influenced coastal areas were analysed. Qualitative data were collected ...
Contextual analysis in two villages of the Niger River Inner Delta
Type: Working Paper
The Community-based Fish Culture in Seasonal Floodplains and Irrigation Systems (CBFC) project is a five year research project supported by the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF), with the aim of increasing ...
Aquaculture in action: reducing the need for feed
Type: News Item/Press Item
A novel aquaculture feeding concept is exploiting the pond ecosystem to encourage farmed fish and shrimp to ingest naturally occurring food alongside feed – a system that has the potential to reduce both production costs ...
Feeding both pond and fish: A pathway to ecological intensification of aquaculture systems
Type: Other
The nutritious pond concept is a novel approach that enables the pond itself to contribute significantly to the diet of the farmed fish/shrimp. Our research shows that feeding the pond by balancing the carbon-to-nitrogen ...
Improving the productivity of the rice-shrimp system in the South-west coastal region of Bangladesh
Type: Book Chapter
The production of wet-season rice followed by dry-season shrimp (Penaeus monodon) is a common farming system in the south-western coastal region of Bangladesh. This chapter summarizes the experiments conducted in the ...
IFAD_Managing Aquatic Agricultural Systems to Improve Nutrition and Livelihoods in Selected Asian and African Countries: Scaling Learning from IFAD-WorldFish Collaboration in Bangladesh_Annual Report January 2017 - January 2018
Type: Donor Report
In 2017, the project in Cambodia supported 65 households for homestead pond nutrition sensitive aquaculture and selected 9 additional households to test intervention in seasonally flooded rice field ponds. Of the 65 ...
Increasing productivity and improving livelihoods in aquatic agricultural systems: a review of interventions
Type: Journal Article
The doubling of global food demand by 2050 is driving resurgence in interventions for agricultural intensification. Globally, 700 million people are dependent on floodplain or coastal systems. Increased productivity in ...
Conditions for collective action: understanding factors supporting and constraining community-based fish culture in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Vietnam
Type: Working Paper
In 2005, the WorldFish Center embarked on a project to pilot test approaches to community-based fish culture (CBFC) in five countries. A previous study conducted between 1997-2000 demonstrated the potential of the approach ...
IFAD_Managing Aquatic Agricultural Systems to Improve Nutrition and Livelihoods in Selected Asian and African Countries: Scaling Learning from IFAD-WorldFish Collaboration in Bangladesh_Annual Report January 2018- January 2019
Type: Donor Report
Cambodia component: In 2018, the project supported the first production cycle of nutrition-sensitive aquaculture in 65 homestead ponds and 15 rice field ponds, for a total of 80 households. The final harvest of the first ...
Community based fish culture in seasonal floodplains and irrigation systems
Type: Report
The overall objective of the project was to enhance fish production from seasonally flooding areas and irrigation systems using a collective approach to fish culture. The project sought to examine the institutions necessary ...