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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 ...
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 ...
Fish - more than just another commodity
Type: Brief
This brief highlights the contribution of wild capture fisheries to nutritional security in fish dependent developing countries. It is intended to stimulate debate around two broad themes: (1) when should the focus of ...
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.
Fish - more than just another commodity
Type: Brief
This brief highlights the contribution of wild capture fisheries to nutritional security in fish dependent developing countries. It is intended to stimulate debate around two broad themes: (1) when should the focus of ...
Aquaculture's unrealised potential: an ASARECA funded partnership learning programme for the fisheries sector
Type: Brief
The potential of aquaculture to reduce poverty and hunger has been recognised in Africa. However, growth in the sector has been limited up-to-now, providing less than 2% of total fish production. In Eastern and Central ...
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 ...
Fisheries policies, support services and the institutional environment for trade
Type: Brief
This lessons-learned brief is based on the results of a three-year project (2001 – 2004) carried out in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. Funded through the ...
Factors that drive Cambodia's inland fish catch: what role can community fisheries play?
Type: Brief
This policy brief is based on an initiative being made at the IFReDI in Cambodia to model the crucial hydrological, bio-ecological and socioeconomic factors that deserve attention if the fish catch in Cambodia is to be sustained.