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Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems: Program summary: Solomon Islands
(2012)Type: BrochureThe Program will achieve impact at multiple scales (household, community, province and national as well as amongst program countries) through pathways that include partnerships, knowledge sharing and learning. In Solomon ... -
Resharpening Ockham's razor
(1994)Type: Journal ArticleOckham's dictum is discussed in this essay. -
Resilient livelihoods and food security in coastal aquatic agricultural systems: Investing in transformational change
(2012)Type: Working PaperAquatic agricultural systems (AAS) are diverse production and livelihood systems where families cultivate a range of crops, raise livestock, farm or catch fish, gather fruits and other tree crops, and harness natural ... -
Resource and ecological assessment of Lagonoy Gulf, Philippines (volume 2: technical monograph)
(1995)Type: ReportThe overall objective of this project is to promote the equitable and sustainable use of coastal resources in the Asian region through the development and implementation of integrated coastal management training tools. The ... -
Resource conflict, collective action and resilience: an analytical framework
(2010)Type: Working PaperIn developing countries where access to and use of renewable natural resources essential to rural livelihoods are highly contested, improving cooperation in their management is increasingly seen as an important element in ... -
Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience: an analytical framework
(2013)Type: Journal ArticleWhere access to renewable natural resources essential to rural livelihoods is highly contested, improving cooperation in resource management is an important element in strategies for peacebuilding and conflict prevention. ... -
Resource ecology of the Bolinao coral reef system
(1992)Type: Working PaperThe book describes an intensive four-year program of monitoring the community ecology and harvest patterns of a large fringing coral reef system in northeastern Philippines. Reef harvest methods included principally ... -
Resources ecology of the Bolinao coral reef system
(1992)Type: Journal ArticleThe book describes an intensive four-year program of monitoring the community ecology and harvest patterns of a large fringing coral reef system in northeastern Philippines. Reef harvest methods included principally ... -
Respecting the other: Leading practitioner calls for greater research collaboration at MARE conference
(2019)Type: BlogA WorldFish honorary fellow has called for scientists and policymakers from around the world to listen and respect each other’s values more to better serve the fisher people of the world. This is critical to strengthening ... -
Results of bottom trawl surveys carried out in Vietnamese waters (20-200 m) in 1996-1997
(2002)Type: Journal ArticleBottom trawl surveys were conducted in the southwest monsoon season in 1996 (survey 1) and in the northeast monsoon season in 1996-97 (survey 2) throughout Vietnamese waters. The surveys mainly covered the depth zone 50-200 ... -
Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleLeadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the "crisis of governance" facing the Earths natural systems. While political, economic, and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically ... -
Review of knowledge on mangroves in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific, with emphasis on management applications
(1979)Type: Journal ArticleThe author gives an account of mangroves ecosystem in the region and how it relates to fisheries. -
Rhinella Marina. Predation by a Philippine crocodile
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleRHINELLA MIRANDARIBEIROI. PREDATION. Rhinalla mirandaribeiroi is a medium-sized bufonid belonging to the R. granulosa group found in the Cerrado Biome and in Cerrado enclaves in the Amazon. Here, we report predation of R. ... -
Rice fields to prawn farms: a blue revolution in southwest Bangladesh?
(2010)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper examines freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) farming in southwest Bangladesh where a large number of farmers have converted their rice fields to export oriented prawn farms, locally known as gher. The ... -
Rice research, technological progress, and poverty: the Bangladesh case
(2007)Type: Book ChapterThis case study assesses the impact on poverty of the technological changes in rice cultivation made by IRRI and its national partners in Bangladesh. Modern varieties (MVs) with higher yield potential were first introduced ... -
Rivers of the Lower Guinean rainforest: biogeography and sustainable exploitation
(2003)Type: Book ChapterThe Lower Guinean rainforest of Southern Cameroon, continental Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the People's Republic of the Congo and its associated biodiversity is being destroyed at a rate of 1 million ha per year by poorly ... -
The role of voluntary commitments in realizing the promise of the Blue Economy
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleVoluntary (or non-binding) commitments offer an action-oriented mechanism for addressing interconnected, complex and pressing issues. Though not designed to replace negotiated or binding outcomes, voluntary commitments can ... -
Safeguarding seagrass poster
(2017)Type: PosterLau Lagoon is the largest seagrass area in Solomon Islands. Dugong, fish and people depend on the seagrass. Support the efforts to save the lagoon: (1) protect dugongs, (2) respect fishing closures, (3) refrain from using ... -
Salaphoum and local governance
(2009)Type: OtherVillage-based action research in Stung Treng province, known locally as Salaphoum research, is a process of participatory research driven by villagers themselves. It aims to document local knowledge on the relationship ... -
Salinity preference of two diatoms and their growth performance in three prepared and two alternative on-farm media sources
(2008)Type: Journal ArticleSalinity and preferred nutrient composition of <i>Chaetoceros affinis</i> and <i>Skeletonema costatum</i> were tested. Salinity was tested at 12, 16, 23, 28, and 32 ppt. Three compositions of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), ...
