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    • Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic response on aquaculture farmers in five countries in the Mekong Region 

      Lebel, L.; Khin, M.; Phuong, N.; Navy, H.; Phousavanh, P.; Jutagate, T.; Lebel, P.; Pardthaisong, L.; Akester, M.J.; Lebel, B.; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613
      Type: Journal Article
      Public health measures aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19 can have significant, unintended impacts on livelihoods. In this paper, we assess the impacts of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on aquaculture farmers in ...
    • Innovation, practice, and adaptation to climate in the aquaculture sector 

      Lebel, L.; Navy, H.; Jutagate, T.; Akester, M.J.; Sturm, L.; Lebel, P.; Lebel, B.; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613 (2021)
      Type: Journal Article
      The importance of innovation for effective responses to climate change is widely asserted, but exactly how and whom innovation helps adapt has received little systematic attention. In this synthetic review, a practice-oriented ...
    • Integrated rice and fish systems 

      Dubois, M.; Akester, M.J.; Ou, P.; Freed, S.; Leemans, K.; Mam, K.; De Silva, S.; Smith, B.; Teoh, S.; Aung, H.M.; Beveridge, M.; Marwaha, N.; Phillips, M.J.; Mark Dubois: 0000-0002-8092-6465; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613; Sarah Freed: 0000-0001-8574-8218; Kosal Mam: 0000-0002-5022-9853; Shwu Jiau Teoh: 0000-0001-7676-8583; Nisha Marwaha: 0000-0001-9822-4085; Michael John Phillips: 0000-0002-0282-0286 (2021)
      Type: Brief
      Integrated rice-fish systems generate multiple benefits, including improved incomes, availability of diverse nutritious foods, livelihood options for women and youth, species and ecosystem biodiversity, resource efficiency, ...
    • Migratory fishes in Myanmar rivers and wetlands: challenges for sustainable development between irrigation water control infrastructure and sustainable inland capture fisheries 

      Conallin, J.C.; Baumgartner, L.J.; Akester, M.J.; Win, N.; Tun, N.; Nyun, M.M.; Swe, A.M.; Lunn, Z.; Chan, N.; Cowx, I.; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613 (2019)
      Type: Journal Article
      Irrigated agriculture and maintaining inland capture fisheries are both essential for food and nutrition security in Myanmar. However, irrigated agriculture through water control infrastructure, such as sluices or barrages, ...
    • MYCulture: Project Overall Review 

      Akester, M.J.; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613 (2019)
      Type: Presentation
      Presentation on the overall review of the MyCulture project presented on the 11th Dec 2019.
    • Nudging fisheries and aquaculture research towards food systems 

      Simmance, F.; Cohen, P.J.; Huchery, C.; Sutcliffe, S.; Suri, S.K.; Tezzo, X.S.; Thilsted, S.H.; Oosterveer, P.; McDougall, C.; Ahern, M.; Freed, S.; Byrd, K.A.; Wesana, J.; Cowx, I.; Mills, D.J.; Akester, M.J.; Chan, C.; Nagoli, J.; Wate, J.; Phillips, M.J.; Fiona Simmance: 0000-0001-9505-0198; Philippa Jane Cohen: 0000-0002-9987-1943; Sharon K Suri: 0000-0003-3064-7991; Xavier Simon Andre Tezzo: 0000-0002-4509-2901; Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted: 0000-0002-4041-1651; Cynthia McDougall: 0000-0002-5606-6813; Sarah Freed: 0000-0001-8574-8218; Kendra A Byrd: 0000-0003-4528-752X; Joshua Wesana: 0000-0003-1970-6241; David Jonathan Mills: 0000-0003-0181-843X; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613; Chin Yee Chan: 0000-0001-8615-2678; Joseph Nagoli: 0000-0002-8919-1397; Michael John Phillips: 0000-0002-0282-0286 (2022)
      Type: Journal Article
      Food system is a powerful concept for understanding and responding to nutrition and sustainability challenges. Food systems integrate social, economic, environmental and health aspects of food production through to ...
    • Performance of emergent aquaculture technologies in Myanmar; challenges and opportunities 

      Karim, M.; Leemans, K.; Akester, M.J.; Phillips, M.J.; Manjurul Karim: 0000-0003-4280-3568; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613; Michael John Phillips: 0000-0002-0282-0286
      Type: Journal Article
      This paper assesses the performance of small-scale aquaculture technologies and factors influencing production, associated income and fish consumption of such technologies within agri-food farming systems in Myanmar.
    • Productivity and the promise of integrated rice-fish systems: How gender will shape success or failure in an era of rural transformation in Myanmar 

      Scott, J.; McDougall, C.; Akester, M.J.; Jessica Scott: 0000-0002-5106-1335; Cynthia McDougall: 0000-0002-5606-6813; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613 (2019)
      Type: Poster
      On the heels of its historic political-economic opening in 2015, agricultural production in Myanmar is on the brink of substantive transformation. Poverty in Myanmar’s rural areas is substantially higher than urban areas: ...
    • Promoting Sustainable Growth of Aquaculture in Myanmar to Improve Food Security and Income for Communities in the Ayeyarwady Delta and Central Dry Zone 

      Akester, M.J.; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613 (2019)
      Type: Other
      The project funded by Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) promoted the sustainable growth of aquaculture in Myanmar by introducing low-cost small-scale aquaculture (SSA) technologies that incorporated small indigenous ...
    • Rice-fish pathways to sustainable development impact in Cambodia and the Lower Mekong: Report on ACIAR and the WorldFish-IRRI-IWMI symposium and theory of change 

      Freed, S.; Flor, R.B.; Akester, M.J.; Cohen, P.J.; Dubois, M.; McCartney, M.; Thay, S.; Yadav, S.; Fleming, A.; Sarah Freed: 0000-0001-8574-8218; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613; Philippa Jane Cohen: 0000-0002-9987-1943; Mark Dubois: 0000-0002-8092-6465; Matthew McCartney: 0000-0001-6342-2815 (2021)
      Type: Report
      Rice and fish are central to the livelihoods and nourishment of the people of Cambodia and of other nations in the Lower Mekong Region. They are vital to progressing many of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals ...
    • Tilapia grow-out culture manual for smallholder farmers in Myanmar 

      Lwin, A.; Khin, M.; Tran, N.; Griffiths, D.; Karim, M.; Akester, M.J.; Nhuong Tran: 0000-0002-1813-4571; Manjurul Karim: 0000-0003-4280-3568; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613 (2022)
      Type: Manual
      The objective of this manual is to assist the GIFT grow-out farmers from delta in Myanmar in applying tilapia grow-out production technologies. These technologies apply to grow -out production in ponds and Chan Myaung ...
    • USAID_Fish for Livelihoods (F4L) Annual Progress Report: October 2021_Septemenr 2022 

      Akester, M.J.; Ali, S.A.; Rizaldo, Q.; Win, N.M.; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613; Syed Aman Ali: 0000-0003-3876-130X; Quennie Rizaldo: 0000-0002-7958-2618 (2022)
      Type: Donor Report
      This report contains the details of accomplishments made, and numbers achieved in 2022 which was the third year of project implementation. It also highlights major challenges faced and how they're overcome with the help ...
    • USAID_Fish For Livelihoods_Quarterly Progress Report_October - December 2021 

      Akester, M.J.; Ali, S.A.; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613; Syed Aman Ali: 0000-0003-3876-130X (2022)
      Type: Donor Report
      Project activities quarterly progress report October to December of 2021.
    • A win-win approach: Integrating fish into rice systems in Myanmar 

      Bevitt, K.; Dubois, M.; Akester, M.J.; Cohen, P.J.; Thilsted, S.H.; Mark Dubois: 0000-0002-8092-6465; Michael Joseph Akester: 0000-0001-6526-1613; Philippa Jane Cohen: 0000-0002-9987-1943; Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted: 0000-0002-4041-1651 (2019)
      Type: Poster
      This poster is an overview of integrating fish into rice systems in Myanmar with the objective of increasing agricultural productivity and reducing malnutrition in the country. In Myanmar, integrating fish into irrigation ...