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Improving aquaculture feed in Bangladesh: From feed ingredients to farmer profit to safe consumption
Type: Working Paper
Use of manufactured feeds in aquaculture in Bangladesh has grown rapidly over the last five years. More than 1 million tonnes of commercially formulated feeds and 0.3-0.4 million tonnes of farm-made feeds were produced in ...
GIZ | Taking nutrition-sensitive carp-SIS polyculture technology to scale. Annual progress report: January 2022 to December 2022
Type: Donor Report
The project made excellent progress in 2022 in components 1 and 2. For Component 1 (Assess
factors influencing the adoption of carp-SIS polyculture technology under by previous projects); a
Bangladeshi PhD Student (Nusrat ...
Domestic crop booms, livelihood pathways and nested transitions: Charting the implications of Bangladesh's pangasius boom
Type: Journal Article
Rapidly transforming Asian food systems are oriented largely towards domestic markets, yet literature on Asian crop booms deals almost exclusively with commodities produced for export. With reference to pangasius aquaculture ...
An assessment of chemical and biological product use in aquaculture in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
The aim of this study is to describe current chemical use practices in the aquaculture sector of Bangladesh and to identify the factors that influence them. A survey on the use of chemical and biological products was ...
The characteristics and status of pond aquaculture in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Very rapid developments are widely believed to have occurred within Bangladesh's aquaculture sector in recent years, but have yet to be adequately documented. This paper addresses the information gap based on a comprehensive ...
Does size matter? Reassessing the relationship between aquaculture and poverty in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Aquaculture has long been promoted by development institutions in Bangladesh on the understanding that it can alleviate poverty. Most of this attention has focused on forms of the activity commonly referred to as ‘small-scale’. ...
The structure, conduct, and performance of the hatchery segment of the aquaculture value chain in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Introduction: Seed production has experienced significant growth in Bangladesh over the last decade, driven by the increasing number of hatcheries. The hatchery segment plays a crucial role in the overall growth and ...
Recent trends in animal source food production and consumption in Bangladesh and Myanmar, and their implications for nutrition
Type: Presentation
The presentation tackles the recent trends in animal source food production and consumption in Bangladesh and Myanmar, and their implications for nutrition. Results showed that there is: a declining supply and consumption ...
Effects of white spot disease and bio-security on shrimp farming in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Shrimp culture is of central importance in Bangladesh, shrimp being the cash component of many smallholder, polyculture fish farming systems. Shrimp also contributes substantial income through exports. However, production ...
Shrimp, prawn and the political economy of social wellbeing in rural Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Wellbeing is gaining prominence in international development discourse as an alternative means of conceptualising and assessing progress against human development goals. This paper operationalizes the concept of social ...