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From researcher to farmer: partnerships in integrated aquaculture-agriculture systems in Malawi and Cameroon
Type: Journal Article
The potential for integrating aquaculture with agriculture has been widely recognized as a means of improving the use of inputs, diversifying output and economic opportunity, and enabling smallholder producers to maintain ...
On-farm and on-station comparison of wild and domesticated Cameroonian populations of Oreochromis niloticus
Type: Journal Article
Wild (Sanaga River) and domesticated populations of Oreochromis niloticus were compared onfarm and on-station in the Central Province of Cameroon to determine the degree to which genetic deterioration of stocks may have ...
Heavy metal and faecal bacterial contamination of urban lakes in Yaounde, Cameroon
Type: Journal Article
The objective of this study was to measure the concentration of indicator bacteria and heavy metals in fish, mud and water of the two largest urban inland valleys in Yaounde.
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 ...
Collective marketing may help small-scale fish farmers in Africa
Type: Journal Article
Studies in Cameroon have found that aquafarmers with closer access to urban markets were able to sell much higher quantities of fish at higher prices. In recent research on collective marketing involving 32 rural fish ...
Ornamental Fishes: a Sustainable Livelihoods for Rainforest Communities
Type: Journal Article
The ornamental fish sector is an extensive and global component of international trade, fisheries, aquaculture and development. However, the scope of this sector and the impact on human and aquatic communities are often ...
Indigenous species for African aquaculture development
Type: Book Chapter
From the history of introductions and the development of successful aquaculture elsewhere, it appears that the use of exotic species to speed up the rate of aquaculture development in Africa is unlikely to be an efficacious ...
Small-scale aquaculture business planning in Cameroon
Type: Conference Paper
In Cameroon, the principal objective set out for the aquaculture sector is to sustainably improve farmer incomes. To be profitable and sustainable investments in aquaculture businesses need to achieve a scale sufficient ...
Participatory research boosts catfish egg, fry production in Cameroon
Type: Journal Article
The omnivorous African sharptooth catfish is a valuable species suitable for culture by smallholder farmers in Cameroon. A five-year research project that brought farmers together with research interests established simple, ...
Freshwater fish seed resources in Cameroon
Type: Book Chapter
The climate, land and water resources of Cameroon, combined with the high demand for fisheries products, makes this Central African country a high potential area for aquaculture. Fingerling availability and quality have ...