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African Aquaculture: Genetic Resource and Traditional Knowledge Access and Benefit Sharing Measures
Type: Journal Article
Genetic resources are the building blocks for aquaculture breeding programs, biotechnology and conservation. The Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol are international frameworks for access and benefit ...
Inception report: Genetic improvement, support to aquaculture value chains and promotion of fish in food systems in SADC
Type: Internal Report
The report details the implementation of the two components for the Program for Improving Fisheries governance and Blue economy trade corridors project (PROFISHBLUE) and particularly the sub components led by WorldFish.
CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems: A synthesis
Type: Brief
The fish agri-food system connects supplies of fish and other aquatic foods through multiple pathways and scales to diverse consumers across the planet and is a key component of the global agri-food systems. Fish and other ...
Fish breeding and genetics for improved productivity, profitability and sustainability of small-scale farms
Type: Brief
Faster growing tilapia strains demonstrate continued increase in growth rate in genetic improvement programs and superior profitability for farmers in Africa and South Asia, with reduced environmental impact.
New genetic ...
Report on Species Mapping, Purity in Hatcheries and Review of Best Management Practices
Type: Donor Report
Report on Species Mapping, Purity in Hatcheries and Review of Best
Management Practices
DOF Zambia_Draft Report on setting up experiments on genetic characterization and strain comparison and Plan for possible improvement of African Catfish_August 2019
Type: Donor Report
Selective breeding programmes start with collection of genetic material from different sources, which could be different wild populations or domesticated stocks / strains. It is important to assess the genetic diversity ...
Performance of Oreochromis niloticus and Oreochromis andersonii in controlled laboratory conditions in Zambia
Type: Journal Article
In the present study, two hatchery strains of Oreochromis niloticus and two of O. andersonii sourced from different hatcheries in Zambia were subjected to the same feeding and management regimes in a controlled indoor tank ...
On-farm participatory evaluation of feeding approaches used by farmers for tilapia (Oreochromis macrochir) production in northern Zambia
Type: Journal Article
This paper reports the first benchmarking of smallholder tilapia farming practices in rural northern Zambia, measuring fish growth, feed utilization and water quality parameters, using a participatory action research ...
Dissemination Strategy for Three Spotted Tilapia in Zambia
Type: Report
Background & Report Objectives
The Zambia Aquaculture Enterprise Development Project (ZAEDP) was launched by the Government of Zambia in 2017 with funding from the African Development Bank. As part of ZAEDP, The Zambian ...