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Small-scale aquaculture for rural livelihoods: Proceedings of the Symposium on Small-scale aquaculture for increasing resilience of Rural Livelihoods in Nepal. 5-6 Feb 2009. Kathmandu, Nepal
(2012)Type: Conference PaperOver the years, aquaculture has developed as one of the fastest growing food production sectors in Nepal. However, local fish supplies have been extremely inadequate to meet the ever increasing demand in the country. Nepal ... -
Does size matter? Reassessing the relationship between aquaculture and poverty in Bangladesh
(2012)Type: Journal ArticleAquaculture 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’. ... -
Institutional arrangements in seasonal floodplain management under community-based aquaculture in Bangladesh
(2012)Type: Journal ArticleSeasonal floodplains under private and public ownership in the Indo-Ganges river basin provide food and income for millions of people in Bangladesh. Floodplain ownership regimes are diverse, covering the whole spectrum ... -
Aquaculture's unrealised potential: an ASARECA funded partnership learning programme for the fisheries sector
(2012)Type: BriefThe potential of aquaculture to reduce poverty and hunger has been recognised in Africa. However, growth in the sector has been limited up-to-now, providing less than 2% of total fish production. In Eastern and Central ... -
Market potential and challenges for expanding the production of sea cucumber in South-East Asia
(2012)Type: Conference PaperThe marketing system for sea cucumber in South-East Asia is generally inefficient, and marketing channels are multilayered. Information asymmetry encourages proliferation of redundant players in the distribution system, ... -
Cooperation in aquaculture rehabilitation and development in Aceh, Indonesia
(2012)Type: Journal ArticlePost-tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction activities in Aceh have been criticised as focusing on vertical reporting at the expense of lateral coordination, leading in some cases to ‘overlaps and redundancies, mistargeting ... -
Small-scale aquaculture: Global and national perspectives
(2012)Type: Conference PaperFish has been a staple food for over a billion people. Its demand is increasing due to growing population and awareness about health benefits of aquatic animal food. Disappointingly, wild catch worldwide is on the decline ... -
Standard harmonization as chasing zero (tolerance limits): the impact of veterinary drug residue standards on crustacean imports in the EU, Japan, and North America
(2012)Type: Journal ArticleFood safety standards in the seafood trade between developing country exporters and developed country importers have been a topic of much discussion in the trade literature. As an important source of foreign currency ... -
Selective breeding in fish and conservation of genetic resources for aquaculture
(2012)Type: Journal ArticleTo satisfy increasing demands for fish as food, progress must occur towards greater aquaculture productivity whilst retaining the wild and farmed genetic resources that underpin global fish production. We review the main ... -
Fisheries and aquaculture policy for education, research and extension in Nepal
(2012)Type: Conference PaperFisheries and aquaculture policy for education, research and extension is derivatives of the main national agriculture policy. Fisheries and aquaculture is a dynamic sub-sector of agriculture sector having high growth ... -
Feed the future aquaculture project: October 2011-Sept 2012
(2012)Type: ReportThe Feed the Future Aquaculture project is a five year transformative investment in aquaculture focused on 20 southern districts in Barisal, Khulna and Dhaka divisions, Bangladesh. This report describes the achievements ... -
Water use at integrated aquaculture-agriculture farms: experiences with limited water resources in Egypt
(2012)Type: Journal ArticleFish farming in Egypt is not formally recognized as an agricultural activity, so aquaculture cannot use water from irrigation canals. However, fish are raised as primary or secondary crops in combination with fruit and ... -
The characteristics and status of pond aquaculture in Bangladesh
(2012)Type: Journal ArticleVery 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 ... -
Mariculture development and livelihood diversification in the Philippines
(2012)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper aims to evaluate mariculture as sustainable livelihood diversification option for coastal fishers in the Philippines and guide policy development in this direction. Mariculture in the Philippines refers to the ... -
Effect Of Different Prepared Antigens Of Pseudomonas fluorescens On Specific And Non-Specific Immune Response Of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
(2013)Type: Journal ArticleThe current work aimed to study four different prepared Ps. fluorescensantigens (formalin killed bacterin, extracellular product (ECP) suspension, sonicated cells (SC) suspension and mixture of ECP and SC suspension) to ... -
Carrying capacities and site selection within the ecosystem approach to aquaculture
(2013)Type: Book ChapterThe growth in world aquaculture required to meet the demands of society will result in ever-increasing pressure upon aquatic and terrestrial resources. There are also potential consequences on the environment and on ... -
Inbreeding and effective population size in a coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) breeding nucleus in Chile
(2013)Type: Journal ArticleA commercial breeding nucleus of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) was established in Chile in 1997. This nucleus consists of two independent populations corresponding to different year-classes (even and odd, depending ... -
Can aquaculture benefit the extreme poor? A case study of landless and socially marginalized Adivasi (ethnic) communities in Bangladesh
(2013)Type: Journal ArticleThe Adivasi Fisheries Project, aimed at diversifying livelihood options for resource-poor Adivasi (ethnic) communities in the North and Northwest of Bangladesh, was implemented during 2007–9. Aquaculture and related ... -
Fish production, consumption and trade in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review analysis
(2013)Type: Working PaperThis analysis is an output of Sub-Saharan Fish Trade in a Changing Climate, a World Bank–funded study conducted in 2010–2011 by WorldFish. Its overall objective is to develop an understanding of the supply and demand for ... -
Ex-ante impact evaluation: case studies from Malawi, Bangladesh and Ghana
(2013)Type: Working PaperThis document presents ex-ante impact evaluations of research for development projects related to aquaculture in Bangladesh, Malawi and Ghana. The Ghana chapter also includes an ex-ante evaluation of a fisheries project. ...
