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Policy, planning and management at the land-water interface
Type: Book Chapter
Historically, land and water management within many coastal deltas has focused on the exclusion of saline water flows that move upstream from the coast. However, this approach fails to recognize the diversity of rural ...
Flow modelling with ECOPATH: providing insights on the ecological state of agroecosystems
Type: Book Chapter
This paper summarizes the major findings in modelling and analysing agroecosystems using ECOPATH.
Fish for Livelihoods Nutrition Update - June
Type: Newsletter
The update in June features the training on good post-harvest practices to over 25 fresh fish vendors in Pekhon, Nyaung Shwe, Tarlay, Bhamo and Myitkyina (Shan and Kachin States). The aim of the training was to enhance ...
The magnitude of global marine species diversity
Type: Journal Article
The question of how many marine species exist is important because it provides a metric for how much we do and do not know about life in the oceans. We have compiled the first register of the marine species of the world ...
Changes in models of aquatic ecosystems approaching carrying capacity
Type: Journal Article
Using a top-down modeling approach, published mass-balance models of trophic interactions and state variables in the western central Pacific Ocean and the northern Gulf of Mexico shelf were used to explore how large increases ...
Training resource book on a participatory method for modelling bioresource flows
Type: Brief
This guidebook helps researchers and extensionists learn an easy rapid appraisal technique that enables farmers to draw conceptual models of their farm systems. The drawings help researchers and extensionists to understand ...
On microcomputers vs. thinking and their respective roles in fisheries research in developing countries
Type: Journal Article
A discussion is presented on the topic of microcomputers and fishery research in developing countries, consideringin particular the advantages of the use of computers for data storage and examination as compared to ...
Increasing water productivity in agriculture
Type: Book Chapter
Water productivity is defined as the amount of agricultural output per unit of water depleted and can be applied to crops, trees livestock and fish. This chapter reviews challenges and opportunities to improve water ...
Food and nutritional security in Bangladesh: going beyond carbohydrate counts
Type: Journal Article
The progress towards achieving household nutritional food-security in Bangladesh has remained slow. So far the food security is cereal-based (mainly rice) and food basket has not yet diversified towards high nutritive/ ...
A bibliography of the giant clams (Bivalvia: Tridacnidae)
Type: Book
In compiling this bibliography the authors have attempted to draw together all scientific papers and reports published to date which deal specif cal ly with aspects of the biology, ecology, exploitation and cultivation of ...







