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Aquaculture, fisheries, poverty and food security
Type: Working Paper
Fisheries and aquaculture play important roles in providing food and income in many developing countries, either as a stand-alone activity or in association with crop agriculture and livestock rearing. The aim of this paper ...
Targeting agricultural research and extension for food security and poverty alleviation: a case study of fish farming in Central Cameroon
Type: Journal Article
Over 5 years of participatory on-farm research, market access, profitability, farming systems productivity and economic sustainability were compared on 100 small-scale farms in Central Cameroon. Integration technology based ...
Review of aquaculture and fish consumption in Bangladesh
Type: Working Paper
Fish play a crucial role in the Bangladeshi diet, providing more than 60% of animal source food, representing a crucial source of micro-nutrients, and possessing an extremely strong cultural attachment. Fish (including ...
Blue frontiers: managing the environmental costs of aquaculture
Type: Brief
Blue Frontiers: Managing the environmental costs of aquaculture is a publication from The WorldFish Center and Conservation International. The report analyzes how the global aquaculture industry uses natural resources and ...
Fish for the improved nutrition security of the poor
Type: Brochure
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Aquaculture and food security in Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) are some of the most vulnerable nations to climate change. Growing populations, combined with climate change and overfishing of inshore reef fish, will compound food security ...
Immanent and interventionist inland Asian aquaculture development and its outcomes
Type: Journal Article
Aquaculture is equated with the reduction of poverty by intergovernmental agencies such as the FAO, which advocate the promotion of small-scale aquaculture through project-based interventions. There is a lack of convincing ...
Aquaculture and food security in Solomon Islands
Type: Brief
Aquaculture and Food Security in the Solomon Islands (ACIAR Project FIS/2009/061) was formulated to assist the Government of Solomon Islands in better understanding the future demand for aquaculture and particularly to ...
Aquaculture and markets: a research agenda
Type: Brief
This issues brief proposes an agenda for markets and trade research that supports pro-poor development of aquaculture. It summarises key trends and issues relating to global aquaculture development and identifies critical ...