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Aquaculture: increasing income, diversifying diets, and empowering women in Bangladesh and Nigeria (IDEA). Project Brief: January- December 2021
(2022)Type: BriefThis brief highlights the major project achievements in line with the FISH Research Program strategic goals and indicators. The brief was produced taking as reference the technical report of the project submitted to the ... -
Aquaculture: Increasing income, diversifying diets, and empowering women in Bangladesh. Rapid Assessment of SBCC material
(2020)Type: Internal ReportA rapid assessment report on SBCC materials for nutrition message dissemination -
Aquaculture: the last frontier for sustainable food security?
(1998)Type: Conference PaperFish has become a political commodity, thanks to its increasing scarcity and its high value. Aquaculture offers opportunities as the last frontier for sustaining the contribution of fish to food security. Asia is at the ... -
Aquaculture’s role in propagating antimicrobial resistance must be addressed
(2020)Type: OtherAquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food-production sector, but as the industry grows, so does the amount of antibiotics used to keep farmed fish free of disease. Chadag Vishnumurthy Mohan, lead scientist at World ... -
AQUADATA in brief
(2022)Type: PresentationPresentation held at the University of Pisa - Topic: Introduction to AquaData and approaches to data in Aquatic Food Systems. -
AquaData Workshop Presentation
(2022)Type: ReportThe AquaData Workshop between AgUnity and WorldFish was held from November 15th to 17th, 2022 at the WorldFish facility, in Penang, Malaysia. The objective of this 3-day workshop was to define parameters and an Agile ... -
AQUADATA: A work package of the Resilient Aquatic Food Systems Initiative
(2022)Type: PresentationPresentation held at the FishBase - SeaLifeBase Symposium on the Approach to Data developed by the AqFs Initiative and possible synergies with FishBase and SeaLifeBase. -
Aquafeed production in Africa, and future prospects for fishmeal and fish oil
(2019)Type: PresentationFish farming is growing faster (10% per year) in Africa than any other continents. Fish feed plays a major role in the production cycle, as it is one of the determinants of profitability. The available fish feeds in many ... -
Aquatic Agricultural Systems
(2011)Type: BriefMore 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 ... -
Aquatic agricultural systems in Zambia
(2011)Type: BriefZambia contains 40% of Southern Africa’s surface freshwater and seasonally almost 20% of the country (150,000 km²) is inundated. Zambia’s rivers, lakes and wetlands support extensive agriculture, fisheries and livestock ... -
Aquatic Animal Health Package of Practices: Fish epidemiology and health economics
(2021)Type: ToolThe absence of accurate baseline data on fish health and production, farm management practices, disease occurrence and mortalities, and the economic value of disease-related losses hampers disease control efforts by farmers ... -
Aquatic Animal Health Package of Practices: Fish sampling for disease diagnostics
(2021)Type: ToolQuality biological sampling is a fundamental requirement for all kinds of work on diagnosing diseases and screening for pathogens. Fish sampling requires specific techniques and skills to collect good biological samples ... -
Aquatic Animal Health Package of Practices: Syndromic surveillance and disease outbreak characterization
(2021)Type: ToolWorldFish has developed a package of practices for syndromic surveillance and disease outbreak investigation. It contains all the necessary resources for building the awareness and capacity of relevant actors in aquatic ... -
Aquatic Animal Health: Online fish health and water quality monitoring tool
(2021)Type: ToolThe online fish health and water quality monitoring tool is an automated system that allows users to record key indicators of fish health which include daily fish mortalities and clinical signs of disease, as well as ... -
Aquatic Animal Health: Remote training courses on Learn.ink platform
(2021)Type: ToolLearn.ink is a training and learning digital platform designed for use on low-end mobile devices. It allows WorldFish and partner organizations to create and disseminate training materials remotely through interactive ... -
Aquatic food systems under COVID-19
Type: BriefThe World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11 March 2020 (WHO, 2020a). This declaration prompted emergency measures across the globe to contain the spread of the disease. Taken as a whole, the ... -
Aquatic product consumption patterns and perceptions among the Chinese middle class
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleThe Chinese market for aquatic products is the largest in the world, and growing rapidly. An increasingly large proportion of Chinese aquatic product consumption is coming from imported sources, making the market of high ... -
Are consumers in developing countries willing to pay for aquaculture food safety certification? Evidence from a field experiment in Nigeria
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleMany developing countries face challenges in managing food safety risks associated with consumption of animal-source foods. Efforts to address these challenges increasingly recognize the role of certification in agri-food ... -
Are shrimp farmers actual gamblers? An analysis of risk perception and risk management behaviors among shrimp farmers in the Mekong Delta
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleShrimp farming is considered a “risky business” and often compared to gambling for farmers. It is associated with a diverse range of risks and uncertainties, including volatile markets, climate variability, and production ... -
Are trunk lateral line anomalies and disoriented scale patterns in European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) influenced by genetics?
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleDifferent kinds of defects are observed on farmed fish, and while a lot of research has concentrated on skeletal abnormalities, little is known on scale anomalies. In this paper, a survey for lateral line shape anomalies ...
