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Snorkel the web: ReefBase brings a sea change in access to information about coral reefs
Type: Brief
This fact sheet highlights ReefBase, an award-winning online global information system designed to facilitate research on, and the management of, coral reefs to enhance their protection. Launched in 2002, ReefBase was ...
Cyclone affected aquaculture rehabilitation project
Type: Brief
On 15th November 2007, Cyclone Sidr ravaged the southern coastal districts of Bangladesh causing loss of life and rendering thousands of people homeless and destitute. Large number of fish ponds and enclosures were affected, ...
Financing smallholder aquaculture enterprises
Type: Brief
Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food production sector. Developing countries produce the bulk of aquaculture production, and smallholders dominate the rural landscape throughout the developing world, making up ...
Aquaculture in the ASEAN region
Type: Brief
Blue Frontiers: Managing the environmental costs of aquaculture is a report prepared by the WorldFish Center and Conservation International. This global review of aquaculture aims to inform policy makers about the impacts ...
WorldFish in Bangladesh
Type: Brief
Since 1989, WorldFish has been working with the Bangladesh Government and development partners to create a more productive fisheries and aquaculture sector that contributes to diversified and resilient rural livelihoods ...
The threat to fisheries and aquaculture from climate change
Type: Brief
Fish provide essential nutrition and income to an ever-growing number of people around the world, especially where other food and employment resources are limited. Many fishers and aquaculturists are poor and ill-prepared ...
Aquaculture options for alternative livelihoods: the experience of the Adivasi Fisheries Project in Bangladesh
Type: Brief
The Adivasi Fisheries Project (AFP) set out in 2007 to help Adivasis in the north and northwest of Bangladesh find new and more sustainable livelihoods. It is based on 2 decades of WorldFish Center research in Bangladesh ...
Review of training for the period 1999-2009: WorldFish Aquaculture Research and Training Center, Abbassa, Egypt
Type: Brief
The WorldFish Aquaculture Research and Training Center is located outside Abbassa, a typical village in Egypt's Nile delta. The WorldFish Center launched its regional research and training activities in 1998. Courses were ...
Climate change: research to meet the challenges facing fisheries and aquaculture
Type: Brief
Climate change poses new challenges to the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture systems, with serious implications for the 520 million people who depend on them for their livelihoods and the nearly 3 billion people ...
Aquatic Agricultural Systems
Type: Brief
More than 700 million people depend on aquatic agricultural systems for their livelihoods. These are diverse farming systems that include a mix of cultivation, livestock, aquaculture, fishing, and gathering natural resources ...