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Disaggregated projections on supply, demand,and trade for developing asia: preliminary results from the Asiafish model
Type: Conference Proceedings
The AsiaFish model is a quantitative tool for making disaggregated projections and impact analysis for fish supply, demand, and trade. It has recently been applied to nine major fish producers in Asia (Bangladesh, China, ...
Effect of water hyacinth and chlorella on water polluted by heavy metals and the biochemical and pathophysiological response of exposed fish
Type: Conference Paper
This study aimed to investigate the capacity of selected aquatic plant (water hyacinth and Chlorella) to remove some metal pollution from the water and the effect of such reaction on the serum bichemistry and histopathology ...
Priority setting for research on aquatic resources: an application of modified economic surplus analysis to natural resource systems
Type: Journal Article
In contrast to research on farming systems, research on natural resource systems seldom applies rigorous priority setting techniques, mainly due to difficulties associated with estimating research impact ex ante for such ...
Cambodia's aquarian reforms : the emerging challenges for policy and research
Type: Working Paper
The main objective of the document is to make a modest attempt to highlight the challenges which are emerging with the current phase of Cambodia's aquarian reforms -- the most important component of which is the current ...
SLODS: slow dissolving standards for water flow measurements
Type: Journal Article
In this study, we report the development of slow dissolving standard (SLODS™), designed to estimate water flow over a lunar period (30 days). To demonstrate the usefulness and validity of this technique, we describe ...
Economic valuation and socioeconomics of coral reefs: methodological issues and three case studies
Type: Book Chapter
In most tropical countries, coral reef ecosystems provide coastal populations with a number of goods and services. However, a variety of anthropogenic practices threatens reef health and therefore jeopardizes the benefits ...
Future research directions in coral reef management
Type: Report
At 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 ...
Malawi: fighting poverty - impacts from collaborative research in southern Africa
Type: Brochure
WorldFish established an African aquaculture project office at the National Aquaculture Center in Domasi, Malawi, in 1987 with funding from Deutsche Gesellschaft fiir Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). The office now services ...
Ex-ante impact assessment for research on natural resources management: methods and application to aquatic resource systems
Type: Journal Article
Under a particular representation of the impact path way of natural resource management (NRM) research, economic surplus techniques can also be used for ex ante impact assessment. The method is applied to the case of the ...
Rice research, technological progress, and poverty: the Bangladesh case
Type: Book Chapter
This 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 ...