WorldFish Community: Recent submissions

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    • The impact of gender blindness on social-ecological resilience: The case of a communal pasture in the highlands of Ethiopia 

      Aregu, L.; Darnhofer, I.; Tegegne, A.; Hoekstra, D.; Wurzinger, M. (2016)
      Type: Journal Article
      The authors studied how the failure to take into account gendered roles in the management of a communal pasture in the highlands of Ethiopia can affect the resilience of this social-ecological system. This paper integrates ...

    • Postharvest fish losses and unequal gender relations: drivers of the social-ecological trap in the Barotse Floodplain fishery, Zambia 

      Cole, S.M.; McDougall, C.; Kaminski, A.M.; Kefi, A.S.; Chilala, A.; Chisule, G.; Steven Cole: 0000-0002-8947-0871 (2018)
      Type: Journal Article
      The Barotse Floodplain fishery is an important source of livelihood for economically poor women and men in western Zambia. Current efforts by the Department of Fisheries and the traditional authority to manage the fishery ...

    • Financial Statements and Report of Independent Auditors For the Year Ended December 31, 2017 

      WorldFish (2018)
      Type: Report
      This report includes the WorldFish financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2017.

    • Annual report 2017 

      WorldFish (2018)
      Type: Report
      This annual report highlights some of our key achievements over the past year as we progress towards our impact targets. In Asia and Africa, our genetic improvement program took a major step forward with the use of genomic ...

    • Annual Report 2017 

      CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (2018)
      Type: Report
      The CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) is a new CRP that builds on earlier CRPs for Livestock and Fish (L&F) and Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) as well as prior research by WorldFish and the managing ...

    • WorldFish Nigeria Strategy: 2018-2022 

      WorldFish (2018)
      Type: Report
      The WorldFish mission is to strengthen livelihoods and enhance food and nutrition security by improving fisheries and aquaculture. WorldFish pursues this mission through research and development partnerships focused on ...

    • Building organisational capacity for ecosystem-based adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the Lake Chilwa Basin 

      Phalira, W. ; Nagoli, J. ; Kayambazinthu, D. ; Chiotha, S.; Joseph Nagoli: 0000-0002-8919-1397 (2018)
      Type: Book Chapter
      This chapter presents an analysis of organisational capacity for climate change management (especially adaptation) and disaster risk management in the Lake Chilwa Basin developed through the implementation of the programme. ...

    • Too big to ignore: Gender and climate change adaptation in the Lake Chilwa Basin 

      Nagoli, J.; Binauli, L.; Chijere, A.; Chiotha, S.; Joseph Nagoli: 0000-0002-8919-1397 (2018)
      Type: Book Chapter
      Various studies have illustrated how gender differences could affect ecosystembased adaptation based on gender-based preferences and perceptions, social and economic roles and institutional arrangements. However, these ...

    • Drivers of mangrove ecosystem service change in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh 

      Islam, M.M.; Sunny, A.R.; Hossain, M.M.; Friess, D.A. (2018)
      Type: Journal Article
      Mangroves are now well known to provide a range of ecosystem services that benefit local populations, though such ecosystem services are at risk from mangrove deforestation and degradation across much of the tropics. This ...

    • Natural resource-based livelihoods in the context of climate change in the Lake Chilwa Basin 

      Nagoli, J.; Chiwaula, L.; Jamu, D.; Mwanza, P.; Joseph Nagoli: 0000-0002-8919-1397 (2018)
      Type: Book Chapter
      This chapter analyses the contribution of the Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme (LCBCCAP) in providing alternative livelihoods to people in the basin and most importantly how these activities improved ...

    • Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities 

      Cinner, J.E.; Adger, W.N.; Allison, E.H.; Barnes, M.L.; Brown, K.; Cohen, P.J.; Gelcich, S.; Hicks, C.C.; Hughes, T.P.; Lau, J.; Marshall, N.A.; Morrison, T.H.; Philippa Cohen: 0000-0002-9987-1943 (2018)
      Type: Journal Article
      To minimize the impacts of climate change on human wellbeing, governments, development agencies, and civil society organizations have made substantial investments in improving people’s capacity to adapt to change. Yet to ...

    • Basic biosecurity manual for tilapia hatchery technicians in Bangladesh 

      Mohamed Din, M.S.; Subasinghe, R. (2017)
      Type: Manual
      With the onset of Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV) outbreaks in several Asian countries, WorldFish, in collaboration with Bangladesh’s Department of Fisheries, has developed a program to improve biosecurity in the tilapia industry ...

    • Fish-based recipes 

      WorldFish (2017)
      Type: Other
      Appropriate and adequate dietary intake for pregnant and lactating women and also infants and young children is critical for optimal child growth and development. This booklet serves as a guide for staff from government ...

    • Tilapia lake virus (TiLV): What to know and do? (Bangla version) 

      CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-food Systems (2017)
      Type: Tool
      Tilapia lake virus is a newly emerging virus that is associated with significant mortalities in farmed tilapia. With cases reported across Africa, Asia and South America, the virus represents a huge risk to the global ...

    • Resilient Small-scale Fisheries Symposium: Proceedings of a workshop held in Penang, Malaysia, 5-7 September 2017 

      Cohen, P.J.; Huchery, C.; Roscher, M.B.; Philippa Jane Cohen: 0000-0002-9987-1943; Matthew B Roscher: 0000-0002-3408-8763 (2017)
      Type: Conference Proceedings
      Small-scale capture fisheries (SSF) generate food and income for millions of people, yet these benefits are underreported, undervalued and under threat from a range of social, ecological and political drivers. The Resilient ...

    • Promoting gender equity and equality through the small-scale fisheries guidelines: Experiences from multiple case studies 

      Kleiber, D.; Frangoudes, K.; Snyder, H.T.; Choudhury, A.; Cole, S.M.; Soejima, K.; Pita, C.; Santos, A.; McDougall, C.; Petrics, H.; Porter, M.; Steven Cole: 0000-0002-8947-0871; Afrina Choudhury: 0000-0003-1734-6238 (2017)
      Type: Book Chapter
      Gender equity and equality is the fourth guiding principle of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF Guidelines), and sits within its wider human rights framework. The SSF Guidelines ...

    • Gender and poverty dimensions in a value chain analysis of milkfish mariculture in Misamis Oriental, Philippines 

      Roxas, A.T.; Guliman, S.D.O.; Perez, M.L.; Ramirez, P.J.B. (2017)
      Type: Journal Article
      This paper aims to describe the role of key players in the value chain for milkfish Chanos chanos (Forsskål, 1775) in a mariculture Park in Balingasag, Misamis Oriental in the Philippines with an emphasis on gender dimensions. ...

    • Gender in Myanmar’s small-scale aquaculture sector 

      Aregu, L.; Rajaratnam, S.; McDougall, C.; Johnstone, G.; Wah, Z.Z.; Nwe, K.M.; Akester, M.; Grantham, R.; Karim, M. (2017)
      Type: Brief
      WorldFish’s objective for Myanmar’s MYCulture program is to improve food and income security in the country’s Ayeyarwady Delta and Central Dry Zone regions through the development of small-scale aquaculture To ensure maximum ...

    • Gender and aquaculture value chains: A review of key issues and implications for research 

      Kruijssen, F.; McDougall, C.; van Asseldonk, I. (2017)
      Type: Journal Article
      Although aquaculture is the fastest growing food producing sector in the world and generates significant employment opportunities at multiple scales, men and women are not necessarily able to participate in aquaculture ...

    • Intra-household impacts of climate change hazards and autonomous adaptation: Evidence from Bohol, Philippine 

      Agbon, A.B.D.; Anzano, C.G.; Sajise, A.J.U.; Ramirez, P.J.R.; Zamora, G.J. (2017)
      Type: Report
      This study is an attempt to systematically study the intra-household implications and issues of climate-related shocks or hazards. We look at how the internal dynamics of decision making within the household and the joint ...