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Baseline study: nutritional status, food security and fish consumption among people living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia: summary
Type: Brief
Under the regional programme Fisheries and HIV/AIDS in Africa, the University of Zambia, in collaboration with the WorldFish Center, has undertaken a baseline survey of the nutritional status and fish consumption of people ...
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 ...
Collecting data for poverty and vulnerability assessment in remote areas in Sub-Saharan Africa
Type: Journal Article
Data collection for poverty assessments in Africa is time consuming, expensive and can be subject to numerous constraints. In this paper we present a procedure to collect data from poor households involved in small-scale ...
Assessing forest canopy closure in a geospatial medium to address management concerns for tropical islands: Southeast Asia
Type: Journal Article
The present study outlines an approach to classify forest density and to estimate canopy closure of the forest of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. The vector layers generated for the study area using satellite data was ...
The impact of integrated aquaculture-agriculture on small-scale farms in Southern Malawi
Type: Journal Article
Sustainable agricultural intensification is an urgent challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa. One potential solution is to rely on local farmers’ knowledge for improved management of diverse on-farm resources and integration ...
Stream degradation, fish abundance and the potential viability of ornamental fisheries in south-western Cameroon
Type: Journal Article
Fifteen sites on nine second- and third-order streams in the Mount Cameroon area, with varying degrees of human disturbance, were sampled during wet and dry seasons over 21 months in 2003–2005 to estimate their potential ...
Baseline study: nutritional status, food security and fish consumption among people living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia
Type: Report
Under the regional programme Fisheries and HIV/AIDS in Africa, the University of Zambia, in collaboration with the WorldFish Center, has undertaken a baseline survey of the nutritional status and fish consumption of people ...
Community livelihood and patterns of natural resources uses in the shrimp-farm impacted Mekong Delta
Type: Journal Article
This case study looks at changing livelihood strategies of the coastal population in Soc Trang Province in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, and their impacts on natural resources. It provides an opportunity not only to document ...
Lake of flies, or lake of fish? A tropic model of Lake Malawi
Type: Journal Article
Ecosystem-focused models have, for the first time, become available for the combined demersal and pelagic components of a large tropical lake ecosystem, Lake Malawi. These provide the opportunity to explore continuing ...
Informal networks in policy processes: the case of community-based fisheries management in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
A significant share of research for development aims at improving policy. The authors use the case of community-based fisheries management in Bangladesh to demonstrate how social network analysis can be applied to explore ...