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Aquaculture and society in the new millennium
Type: Journal Article
Aquaculture as we know it at the beginning of the 21st century is a consolidation of more or less independent experiences. Carvings indicate that the Egyptians were cultivating fish at least 2,500 years ago. The Chinese ...
Concepts, alternatives, and environmental considerations in the development and use of improved strains of tilapia in African aquaculture
Type: Journal Article
The status of African populations of farmed tilapia is reviewed and discussed in light of the need for improved strains for commercial aquaculture. Many tilapia populations currently held on African fish farms have been ...
Functional aquatic ecosystems, inland fisheries and the Millennium Development Goals
Type: Journal Article
Freshwater allocation in an environment of increasing demand and declining quality and availability is a major societal challenge. While biodiversity and the needs of local communities are often in congruence, the over-riding ...
Training in African aquaculture development
Type: Journal Article
The article focuses on the types of training needed in African aquaculture development. The author suggested that rather than needing less training, extension agents and others who operate in the idiosyncratic world of the ...
How can research best serve the needs of aquaculture in subsaharan Africa?
Type: Journal Article
Discussion on whether research is the answer to best serve the needs of aquaculture in SubSaharan Africa is presented. New methods of user-participatory, on-farm research being tested by ICLARM and other agencies in Asia ...
Exploitation and conservation of fish genetic resources in Africa: issues and priorities for aquaculture development and research
Type: Journal Article
Africa harbours a rich biological diversity of native fish resources. Recognition of the potential to use these resources to make significant contributions towards improving African food security through aquaculture has ...
Impacts of aquaculture development projects in Western Cameroon
Type: Journal Article
To measure the impact of past projects on the sustained adoption and development of aquaculture, and to assess the potential for future growth, a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) based on the Research Tool for Natural ...
The context of smallholding integrated aquaculture in Malawi: a case study of SubSaharan Africa
Type: Journal Article
What direction should SubSaharan African agriculture take — industrialized or smallholder agriculture? The author says that a compromise, using the best elements of each, would be best, but in order to develop a strategy, ...
Protocols for the development of indigenous species: polyculture of indigenous species under Malawian smallholder conditions
Type: Journal Article
Shire tilapia, Oreochromis shiranus shiranus (Boulenger 1897), was grown in monoculture and polyculture with either straightfin barb, Barbus paludinosus (Peters 1852), or threespot barb, Barhus trimaculatus (Peters 1852), ...
The evolution of aquaculture in African rural and economic development
Type: Journal Article
In Africa, aquaculture has developed only recently and so far has made only a small contribution to economic development and food security. We review developments and identify constraints to the expansion of aquaculture ...