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Development strategies and options for fisheries and aquaculture in Asia
Type: Brief
Declining fisheries have hurt many poor coastal and inland fishing communities and consumers in Asia, where 630 million people live on less than US1 per day. Developed to restore dwindling fish supplies are the AsiaFish ...
Community based fisheries management : capturing the benefits
Type: Brief
The unequal distribrition of wealth and power in rural Bangladesh makes it difficult for the poorer members of society, including women to access natural resources such as fisheries.Over a ten year period, the Community ...
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 ...
Mangrove revival diversifies livelihoods while addressing climate change
Type: Brief
Funded by the Australian Government, The project "Poverty alleviation, mangrove conservation and climate change: Carbon offsets as payments for mangrove ecosystem services in Solomon Islands" explores whether or not ...
Fisheries and aquaculture can provide solutions to cope with climate change
Type: Brief
This brief explains how climate change will affect aquatic systems and how fisheries and aquaculture will need to adapt to meet these changes. It provides a number of examples of how our projects are providing solutions ...
Knowledgebase for lessons learned and best practices in the management of coral reefs
Type: Brief
The GEF Lessons Learned and Best Practices Toolkit (GEF LL Toolkit) provides information on how to design and implement coral reef management strategies. As our knowledge of the issues surrounding coral reef management ...
Climate change and fisheries: vulnerability and adaptation in Cambodia
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 ...
Lessons learnt community based fisheries management (CBFM) in Vietnam
Type: Brief
The integrated local government institutions in Vietnam helps to bring all stakeholders together to establish and strengthen community based institutions and leverage effective management of the fisheries resources.
Planning the use of fish for food security in the Pacific
Type: Brief
Fish is a mainstay of food security for Pacific island countries and territories (PICTs). Diversifying the supply of fish will make rural households in the Pacific more resilient to natural disasters, social and political ...
Aquaculture businesses : a low cost option for economic growth in Bangladesh
Type: Brief
Aquaculture could be used to create hundreds of thousands of jobs in Bangladesh over the next decade -helping to reduce the widespread poverty that is stifling the country's economic growth. The country already has the ...