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Illuminating Hidden Harvest news update - edition #2 Oct 2019
Type: Newsletter
The second news update for the Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH) study covers the progress of research activities, the latest news and upcoming events.
Can agricultural research and extension be used to challenge the processes of exclusion and marginalisation?
Type: Journal Article
This paper examines if and how agricultural researchers and extension officers can see, understand and change processes that exclude some people and influence marginalisation. We used participatory action research (PAR) ...
Coping with the Double Crisis: Lake Chilwa Recession and the Great Depression on Chisi Island in Colonial Malawi, 1930-1935
Type: Journal Article
During the 1930s, people in the Lake Chilwa Basin in Malawi had to cope with both the drying up of Lake Chilwa and the global economic depression. We chose to describe this confluence on Chisi Island as the 'double crisis,' ...
Illuminating Hidden Harvests science cafe at 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (event proceedings)
Type: Conference Proceedings
The aim of IHH is to capture and quantify the contributions of SSF to the three pillars of sustainable development (economic, social and environmental) at a global level. Data and information to produce these ...
Reconciling multiple societal objectives in cross-scale marine governance: Solomon Islands’ engagement in the Coral Triangle Initiative
Type: Journal Article
Environmental governance aims to reconcile an expanding set of societal objectives at ever-larger scales despite the challenges that remain in integrating conservation and development at smaller scales. The authors examine ...
Fine-scale population structure and ecotypes of anadromous Hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) across complex aquatic ecosystems revealed by NextRAD genotyping
Type: Journal Article
The anadromous Hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) live in the Bay of Bengal and migrate to the estuaries and freshwater rivers for spawning and nursing of the juveniles. This has led to two pertinent questions: (i) do all Hilsa ...
Guidelines for community fish refuge-rice field fisheries system management in Cambodia
Type: Manual
Community Fish Refuge - Rice Field Fishery (CFR–RFF) systems managed under the Rice Field Fisheries Enhancement (RFFE) project have been shown to contribute to a 71% increase in annual average fish catch by households in ...
Redefining community based on place attachment in a connected world
Type: Journal Article
The concept of community is often used in environmental policy to foster environmental stewardship and public participation, crucial prerequisites of effective management. However, prevailing conceptualizations of community ...
The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance
Type: Journal Article
Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular alternative—involves many centres of authority ...
Biochemical impacts of salinity on the catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch, 1794), and possibility of their farming at low saline water
Type: Journal Article
Although a stenohaline freshwater fish, the stinging catfish Heteropneustes fossilis, is also available in the freshwater fringes of the coastal areas of Bangladesh, the tolerance of this species to variable environmental ...