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Low external input sustainable aquaculture for Bangladesh: an operational framework
Type: Journal Article
Like most developing countries, Bangladesh wants to improve the income and nutrition of its rural population most of whom live under uncertain and harsh social and environmental conditions. These rural households farm with ...
Preferences of fishes to different types of Katha materials used in sanctuaries in three rivers of Netrokona.
Type: Journal Article
Use of different fish-friendly ‘katha’ materials in fish sanctuary is a new concept in Bangladesh. Two kilometers area of each of the three rivers namely the Updakhali, the Kalihar and the Kangsha in Netrokona district ...
Fish for the poor under a rising global demand and changing fishery regime
Type: Journal Article
In the past, agricultural researchers tended to ignore the fisheries factor in global food and nutritional security. However, the role of fish is becoming critical as a result of changes in fisheries regimes, income ...
Redirecting benefits to genuine fishermen: Bangladesh's new fisheries management policy
Type: Journal Article
In 1986 the government of Bangladesh decided to pursue a new fisheries management policy (NFMP) that would allow fishing access only to the genuine fishers with the following main objectives: to free the fishers from ...
The future for fish in the food and livelihoods of the poor in Asia
Type: Journal Article
This article is based on the study, “Strategies and Options for Increasing and Sustaining Benefi ts from Fisheries and Aquaculture Production to Benefi t Poor Households in Asia”, carried out under ADB-RETA 5945, and ...
Integration of aquaculture into smallholder farming systems for improved food security and household nutrition
Type: Journal Article
Aquaculture production techniques based on the culture of low-value herbivorous and/or omnivorous freshwater finfish in inland rural communities, within semi-intensive or extensive farming systems that use moderate to low ...
Management of wetland resources in the lower Mekong Basin: issues and future directions
Type: Journal Article
The Lower Mekong Basin has extensive wetlands and these are being threatened by numerous problems. Most of these problems are interdependent and interact with one another. The lack of an appropriate definition of wetlands ...
Improving developing country food security through aquaculture development - lessons from Asia
Type: Journal Article
This paper provides a framework for examining aquaculture’s linkages to food and nutritional security by elucidating key hypotheses concerning the role of aquaculture in household food and income systems in developing ...
Feasibility of adopting aquaculture without detriment to existing farming practices: a case of Bangladesh farming systems
Type: Journal Article
Integrating agriculture aquaculture that would draw inputs from on farm sources is viewed as a viable option to improve the productivity, income and resource use efficiency of existing farms in Bangladesh. To assess the ...
Fish consumption and food security : a disaggregated analysis by types of fish and classes of consumers in selected asian countries
Type: Journal Article
This paper discusses fish consumption and preference patterns for fish species by income groups, and by urban/rural divide in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. The analysis is ...