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From researcher to farmer: partnerships in integrated aquaculture-agriculture systems in Malawi and Cameroon
Type: Journal Article
The potential for integrating aquaculture with agriculture has been widely recognized as a means of improving the use of inputs, diversifying output and economic opportunity, and enabling smallholder producers to maintain ...
Targeting agricultural research and extension for food security and poverty alleviation: a case study of fish farming in Central Cameroon
Type: Journal Article
Over 5 years of participatory on-farm research, market access, profitability, farming systems productivity and economic sustainability were compared on 100 small-scale farms in Central Cameroon. Integration technology based ...
Can water productivity metrics guide allocation of freshwater to inland fisheries?
Type: Journal Article
Water productivity (WP) metrics have proven useful in comparing production efficiency of various crops. Recently, it has also been proposed to facilitate more equitable allocation of scarce freshwater resources between ...
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 ...
Seasonality, labor and integration of aquaculture into southern African smallhold farming systems
Type: Journal Article
Fish production on Malawian smallholdings is generally limited by the quantity and quality of inputs to the pond (Brummett and Noble 1995). The timing of labor availability and other farm activities limit the amount farmers ...
Development of integrated aquaculture - agriculture systems for small-scale farmers in the forest margins of Cameroon
Type: Report
WorldFish Center (formerly ICLARM) aquaculture experts, IITA economists, IRAD researchers and MINEPIA technicians formed a Research-Extension Team (RET) to undertake action research on the importance of markets in driving ...
Integrated resources management, integrated agriculture-aquaculture and the African farmer
Type: Journal Article
Despite the expenditure of huge amounts of money and human effort, the Green Revolution has largely failed to benefit the vast majority of the rural poor in Africa: those smallholding farmers who sell little, if any, of ...
Comparative analysis of the environmental costs of fish farming and crop production in arid areas
Type: Conference Paper
Using published data, 20 crop and 19 fish production systems were compared for efficiency of water and nutrient (nitrogen) use. In agriculture, rain-fed cassava was most efficient, followed by rain-fed beans, pivot-irrigated ...
Barriers to aquaculture development as a pathway to poverty alleviation and food security
Type: Conference Paper
The importance of aquaculture production in developing countries is reviewed briefly. Two sets of barriers to realizing the potential of aquaculture to alleviate poverty and improve food security and nutrition are identified: ...
Urban farming systems in Yaoundé: building a mosaic
Type: Book Chapter
Urban agriculture is prevalent in Cameroon, the first country examined in this book of case studies, yet its role in urban life was little studied until the 1990s. At that time researchers began to look at some aspects of ...