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Water and fisheries
Type: Book Chapter
This paper highlights the importance of fisheries and aquaculture in management of the world’s water resources. It underlines the value of these resources and the critical importance of managing water quantity and quality ...
Changements climatiques : quelle recherche pour relever les défis posés à la pêche et à l’aquaculture
Type: Brief
Le changement climatique pose de nouveaux défis pour la durabilité des pêches et de l'aquaculture, avec de sérieuses conséquences pour les 520 millions de personnes qui en dépendent pour leur subsistance et les presque ...
Are fishers poor or vulnerable? Assessing economic vulnerability in small-scale fishing communities
Type: Journal Article
An index of economic vulnerability is developed and used with a more conventional measure of income poverty to explore vulnerability and chronic poverty in isolated rural communities. The method is applied to data from ...
Investigation of aquaculture dynamics in a Ramsar site using earth observation systems in conjunction with a socio-economic assessment
Type: Journal Article
This study presents a comprehensive site-scale analysis conducted within the global wetland inventory and mapping (GWIM) project. GWIM was developed and promoted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) through ...
Climate change and fisheries: vulnerability and adaptation in Cambodia [Khmer version]
Type: Brief
Cambodia is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change on fisheries, which supply livelihoods for millions and up to 80% of all animal protein in the diet. Most fisheries are highly variable by nature and subject ...
Fish as the "bank in the water" - evidence from chronic-poor communities in Congo
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries in developing countries are often perceived as being a low-productivity and backward informal sector. As a result they are rarely considered in poverty reduction programmes and rural development ...
Nearshore fish aggregating devices: a means of habitat protection and food security in post disaster Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
In the aftermath of the tsunami in 2007, in an effort to assist communities in Western Province in Solomon Islands, the World Wide Fund for Nature, Solomon Islands (WWFSI) received funding from the David and Lucille Packard ...
Dams and fisheries in the Mekong Basin
Type: Journal Article
This paper draws on approaches in ecology, biology and policy analysis to examine the tensions between dams and fisheries in the Lower Mekong Basin. We review the exceptional importance of Mekong fisheries in terms of total ...
Enhancing fishery productivity in small reservoir in India: technical manual
Type: Manual
This document is part of a series of 5 technical manuals produced by the Challenge Program Project CP34 “Improved fisheries productivity and management in tropical reservoirs”. Inland capture fisheries in India have declined ...
Environment-friendly biomaterial (Rice Straw extract) for controlling the algal bloom of Microcystis aeruginosa in Natural water in Abbassa and Ryan water in Egypt
Type: Journal Article
The current study was carried out to investigate the use of rice straw extract in the control of algae blooms in natural water.