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Food safety standards and regulations: implications for Asian fish exporters
(2008)Type: BriefOver the years, the Codex system has developed various general and commodity-specific standards, guidelines, codes of practices and other recommendations to improve food safety. This brief outlines several key policy ... -
Food safety standards and regulatory measures : implications for selected fish exporting Asian countries
(2005)Type: Journal ArticleDeveloping Asian countries continue to record an impressive trade surplus in fish products. However, raising consumer concerns about a range of food safety matters and increasingly stringent regulatory standards related ... -
Food security and the coral Triangle Initiative
(2013)Type: Journal ArticleThe Asia-Pacific's Coral Triangle is defined by its extremely high marine biodiversity. Over one hundred million people living in its coastal zones use this biodiversity to support their livelihoods. Hundreds of millions ... -
Freshwater resources conservation: an action-oriented overview
(2003)Type: Book ChapterBiodiversity in rivers and wetlands is very seriously at risk as evident from the fact that 63% of freshwater fish species in South Africa, 42% of those in Europe and 27% of those in North America have become extinct, ... -
From global to local: testing the potential of cross-scaling in global data sets
(2009)Type: Journal ArticleThe present study investigates the potential of readily available and easily accessible global data sets to understand regional/local level interactions in wetland systems. The biogeographical zones of India were used a ... -
Future research directions in coral reef management
(2004)Type: ReportAt the International Consultative Workshop on Economic Valuation and Policy Priorities for Sustainable Management of Coral Reefs, 10-12 December 2001, Penang, Malaysia, participants were divided into three working groups ... -
Futures of inland aquatic agricultural systems and implications for fish agri-food systems in southern Africa
(2016)Type: ReportThe CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) is collaborating with partners to develop and implement a foresight-based engagement with diverse stakeholders linked to aquatic agricultural systems. The ... -
Genetic improvement of carp reduces poverty, hunger in Asia
(2008)Type: Journal ArticleBreeding programs for carp species carried out in a number of Asian countries have delivered genetically fast growing strains to farmers and producers. The economic benefits resulting from the programs are substantial. The ... -
Genomics in marine monitoring: New opportunities for assessing marine health status
(2013)Type: Journal ArticleThis viewpoint paper explores the potential of genomics technology to provide accurate, rapid, and cost efficient observations of the marine environment. The use of such approaches in next generation marine monitoring ... -
Getting beneath the surface in program planning, monitoring and evaluation: Learning from use of participatory action research and theory of change in the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleMany rural poor and marginalized people strive to make a living in social-ecological systems that are characterized by multiple and often inequitable interactions across agents, scale and space. Uncertainty and inequality ... -
Global change in African fish trade: engine of development or threat to local food security?
(2008)Type: Working PaperToday fish is the most traded food commodity in the World. This situation is not without generating potential issues. On the one hand, fish trade is said to support economic growth processes in developing countries by ... -
Global human footprint on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reef fishes
(2011)Type: Journal ArticleDifficulties in scaling up theoretical and experimental results have raised controversy over the consequences of biodiversity loss for the functioning of natural ecosystems. Using a global survey of reef fish assemblages, ... -
Google earth engine script for semi-automated mapping of small reservoirs using sentinel-2 satellite imagery
(2022)Type: Source CodeGoogle Earth engine script for semi-automated mapping of small reservoirs using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. It is developed to support suitability analysis for multiple uses (including fisheries) of reservoirs in Ghana. -
Governance of aquatic agricultural systems: Analyzing representation, power, and accountability
(2013)Type: Journal ArticleAquatic agricultural systems in developing countries face increasing competition from multiple stakeholders over rights to access and use natural resources, land, water, wetlands, and fisheries, essential to rural livelihoods. ... -
Green mussels
(2021)Type: PosterBasic information on Green Mussel, prospect, cost & benefits and nutrition value. -
Growth and reproductive phenology of the kelp Lessonia variegata in central New Zealand
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleWe report on a field study of L. variegata growing within one depth stratum on the south coast of Wellington, New Zealand that aimed to identify morphometric indices for L. variegata to assist with census of populations ... -
Growth and seasonal recruitment of Octopus maya on Campeche Bank, Mexico
(1992)Type: Journal ArticleA study of growth and seasonal recruitment of the cephalopod Octopus maya on Campeche Bank, Mexico, was conducted, based on catch at size data sampled from 1983 to 1988. The parameters of a seasonally oscillating version ... -
Growth of the checkered puffer Sphoeroides testudineus: postscript to papers by Target and Pauly Ingles
(1991)Type: Journal ArticleJ. Ingles and D. Pauly presented at the Fourth International Coral Reef Symposium a seasonally oscillating growth curve for the puffer Sphoeroides testudineus (Tetraodontidae), based on length-frequency data collected in ... -
Guest Editorial: Geographies of engagement, livelihoods and possibility in South and Southeast Asian deltas
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleIntroduction to a special issue on the geography of mega-deltas in South and Southeast Asia -
Guide du logiciel ECOPATH II (version 2.1)
(1992)Type: ManualThis guide documents the use and background of the ECOPATH II software system written for MS DOS computers for straightforward construction and parametrization of steady-state trophic models of aquatic ecosystems. ECOPATH ...
