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Factors influencing cultivation of the Lilongwe and Linthipe River Banks ni Malawi: a case study of Salima District
Type: Journal Article
The study was conducted to investigate factors that influence farmers to cultivate along the river banks in Salima District, in the Central Region of Malawi. Using logit analysis the study revealed that household size, ...
Seasonality dynamics for investigating wetland-agriculture nexus and its ecosystems service values in Chibuto, Mozambique
Type: Conference Paper
This study is a subsection of CPWF-30 (Challenge Program on Water and Food) that centers on investigating the wetland, agriculture, and livelihoods interactions. Chibuto, the floodplain of Changane River in Mozambique is ...
Ecolabelling and fisheries management
Type: Book
National and intergovernmental regulation of fisheries has not prevented many failures of fisheries management around the world. New approaches to improving the environmental sustainability of fisheries have included the ...
Case studies of six CBFM-2 water bodies
Type: Report
The case studies report on how CBFM-2 interventions have affected aquatic productivity, income, employment and livelihoods in six case study sites, Beelbhora beel cluster (Kishoreganj), Sholuar beel (Narail), Chapundaha ...
Searching for a livelihood: the dilemma of small-boat fishermen in Eastern Indonesia
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter examines the situation of small boat fishermen in eastern Indonesia, a large number of whom are now engaged in illegal shark fishing in Australia waters. The paper looks at: 1) the historical background to ...
Equity, efficiency and identity: grounding the debate over population and sustainability
Type: Journal Article
If social scientists are to provide a more useful contribution to international debates over population and environment, we must find ways to combine the insights of our competing theoretical traditions. Political economy, ...
Coping with disaster: rehabilitating coastal livelihoods and communities
Type: Journal Article
This paper examines lessons from past approaches to natural disasters, as well as early lessons from the post-2004 Asian tsunami rehabilitation, to draw out general principles for rehabilitating livelihoods in poor coastal ...
Watershed governance: livelihoods and resource competition in the mountains of mainland Southeast Asia
Type: Other
This paper examines the challenges of managing the upper watersheds of mainland Southeast Asia, taking local livelihoods and resource competition as its point of departure. The analysis presents the factors of change that ...
Marketing of small indigenous fish species (SIS) and the socio-economic aspects of SIS producers, intermediaries and retailers with sustainable livelihood approach in three fish markets of Mymensingh
Type: Report
A year long survey was conducted in three fish markets of Mymensingh - a rural market (Sutiakhali market), a peri-urban market (KR market, BAU) and an urban market (Notun Bazar market, Mymensingh town) to study the qualitative ...
Rebuilding boats may not equal rebuilding livelihoods
Type: Brief
This brief on post-tsunami rehabilitation was developed by the WorldFish Center. It is one of a series of policy briefs being developed by CONSRN (Consortium to Restore Shattered Livelihoods in TsunamiDevastated Nations) ...