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Economic analysis of climate change adaptation strategies in selected coastal areas in Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam
Type: Brief
Climate change with its attendant geophysical hazards is well studied. A great deal of attention has gone into analyzing climate change impacts as well as searching out possible mitigating adaptive strategies. These matters ...
Mangrove ecosystem services and payments for blue carbon in Solomon Islands
Type: Brief
The AusAID Development Research Project: Poverty Alleviation, Mangrove Conservation and Climate Change: Carbon offsets as payment for mangrove ecosystem services in Solomon Islands (# 49892) was designed to evaluate the ...
Capacitating Farmers and Fishers to Manage Climate Risks in South Asia (CaFFSA)
Type: Brief
Climate variability has a profound influence on fisheries and agriculture in South Asia, including the service industry and value chains. Progress in weather and sub-seasonal/seasonal forecasting has significantly increased ...
Gender and aquaculture: sharing the benefits equitably
Type: Brief
Aquaculture is the fastest growing agricultural sector in the world; it can meet both the food security and cash needs of poor households in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. Women’s involvement in aquaculture is more ...
Vertical agriculture: Homestead horticulture suspended in sacks
Type: Brief
Suspending horticulture in sacks above the ground can result in higher levels of productivity for vegetables when the challenges of unfertile or saline soil, flooding, waterlogging, and land and water constraints are ...
Aquaculture helping to improve health and nutrition in Bangladesh
Type: Brief
Bangladesh has made important human development gains in recent years, reflected by reductions in poverty, mortality of children under five, and chronic malnutrition. These gains have been achieved in spite of frequent ...
Gender and fisheries: do women support, complement or subsidize men's small-scale fishing activities?
Type: Brief
Women’s involvement in fisheries is more significant than often assumed. According to current estimates from nine major fish producing countries, they comprise 46% of the labor force in smallscale capture fisheries-related ...
Aquaculture and food security in Solomon Islands
Type: Brief
Aquaculture and Food Security in the Solomon Islands (ACIAR Project FIS/2009/061) was formulated to assist the Government of Solomon Islands in better understanding the future demand for aquaculture and particularly to ...
CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food-Systems (FISH) in Myanmar
Type: Brief
Myanmar is a country with central lowlands including a mega delta, ringed by steep rugged highlands. As the second-most important food after rice, fish is an essential component of the diet in Myanmar, where per capita ...
CGIAR Research Program on climate change, agriculture and food security
Type: Brief
Climate change is an unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people. Climate change affects agriculture and food security, and likewise, agriculture and natural resource management affect the ...