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Good post-harvest practices for fresh fish trading: Facilitator guide
Type: Training Material
This English language training material is a facilitator guide for peer to peer learning on better management practices for post-harvest handling and trading of fresh fish
FTT smoker operation and testing protocol guidelines (Burmese version)
Type: Manual
This Myanmar language guide, illustrated with diagrams, describes i) how to operate an FAO-Thiaroye Processing Technique (FTT) improved fish smoker constructed in Kale Township, Sagaing Region of Myanmar, ii) details a ...
Rice field fisheries: wild aquatic species diversity, food provision services and contribution to inland fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Cambodia's rice field fisheries contribute to national fisheries production and fish consumption in farming-fishing households. As irrigation development is underway to expand the (currently 17%) rice field area irrigated, ...
Apparent digestibility coefficients of local palm kernel cakes, rice bran, maize bran and sago flour in the GIFT strain of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
Type: Journal Article
An experiment was conducted to estimate the apparent digestibility coefficients (ADC) of macronutrients and energy of local palm kernel cakes, rice bran, maize bran and sago flour available in tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus ...
Nutrition approaches in the Fish for Livelihoods project (Burmese version)
Type: Brief
This document is a guideline about the nutrition approaches to be followed in Fish for Livelihoods project. Development and printing of communication materials on nutrition and WASH based on the Essential Nutrition Actions ...
Maintaining diversity of integrated rice and fish production confers adaptability of food systems to global change
Type: Journal Article
Rice and fish are preferred foods, critical for healthy and nutritious diets, and provide the foundations of local and national economies across Asia. Although transformations, or “revolutions,” in agriculture and aquaculture ...
Consumption practices in transition: Rural-urban migration and the food fish system in Myanmar
Type: Journal Article
This article explores the reconfigurations of fish consumption practices in Myanmar in a context of rapid urbanization and changing availability of wild and farmed fish. Using a social practice lens, we analyze how everyday ...
Guide for the construction of an FTT smoker in Myanmar (Burmese version)
Type: Manual
This illustrated guide, with diagrams and photographs (in Burmese) describes how to use locally available construction materials in Myanmar to construct an FAO-Thiaroye Processing Technique (FTT) improved fish smokers.
Following the fish inland: understanding fish distribution networks for rural development and nutrition security
Type: Journal Article
In developing countries, small-scale fisheries are both a pivotal source of livelihood and essential for the nutritional intake of larger food insecure populations. Distribution networks that move fish from landing sites ...
Migratory fishes in Myanmar rivers and wetlands: challenges for sustainable development between irrigation water control infrastructure and sustainable inland capture fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Irrigated agriculture and maintaining inland capture fisheries are both essential for food and nutrition security in Myanmar. However, irrigated agriculture through water control infrastructure, such as sluices or barrages, ...