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Food safety standards and regulations: implications for Asian fish exporters
Type: Brief
Over the years, the Codex system has developed various general and commodity-specific standards, guidelines, codes of practices and other recommendations to improve food safety. This brief outlines several key policy ...
Climate change and fisheries: vulnerability and adaptation in Cambodia [Khmer version]
Type: Brief
Cambodia is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change on fisheries, which supply livelihoods for millions and up to 80% of all animal protein in the diet. Most fisheries are highly variable by nature and subject ...
Public private partnership in small-scale aquaculture and fisheries
Type: Brief
This policy brief explores the question “which aspects of past public private partnerships (PPPs) in aquaculture and fisheries were useful, effective and replicable?”. We ask what general principles should lie behind new ...
Fisheries and aquaculture in a changing climate
Type: Brief
This policy brief highlights the key issues to ensure that decision makers and climate change negotiators are aware of and understand the changes and their impacts, and the opportunities for adaptation and mitigation in ...
Supply and demand issues affecting fisheries and aquaculture in the Philippines
Type: Brief
This brief, which is based on a three-year project report of sustaining fisheries and aquaculture production of nine Asian countries, outlines issues relating to the supply and demand of the Philippines fishery industry ...
Priority technologies and national strategies to develop and manage fisheries and aquaculture
Type: Brief
Drawn from the outstanding work that developed the AsiaFish model, this policy brief offers four key recommendations to Asian policy makers for expanding and managing their national fisheries and aquaculture sectors.
Community based fisheries management : fisheries yields and sustainability
Type: Brief
The importance of Bangladesh's inland fisheries resources for the livelihoods and food security of the poor and landless is widely acknowledged. The management of these resources, based upon a combination of short-term ...
Envisioning possible futures for fish production in Indonesia
Type: Brief
This report summarizes the results of a systematic effort to explore possible futures for aquaculture and fisheries in Indonesia. The work described is part of a larger effort that seeks to develop a shared vision for the ...
Development strategies and options for fisheries and aquaculture in Asia
Type: Brief
Declining fisheries have hurt many poor coastal and inland fishing communities and consumers in Asia, where 630 million people live on less than US1 per day. Developed to restore dwindling fish supplies are the AsiaFish ...
Improved fisheries management in the Barotse Floodplain of Zambia - An urgent call for action
Type: Brief
An estimated 70,000 people depend on the resources of the Barotse floodplain for their livelihood, food and nutrition security. However, poor management, increasing fishing pressure and use of destructive fishing gears ...