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Undervalued and overlooked: sustaining rural livelihoods through better governance of wetlands
Type: Working Paper
Increasing awareness about wetlands is essential to improving their management, but it is not enough. Also needed are fundamental shifts in the ways that wetland resources are valued, and in the ways that decisions are ...
A guide to mangrove rehabilitation in Solomon Islands
Type: Brochure
There are about 30 species of mangroves in Solomon Islands, representing 40% of the world’s mangrove species. They can be found on most islands and it is estimated that mangroves here cover an area of about 50 000 hectares. ...
Piecework (Ganyu) as an indicator of household vulnerability in rural Zambia
Type: Journal Article
Piecework (ganyu) is short-term, casual labor common in rural Zambia and neighboring countries. Reliance on piecework as a strategy to cope during food shortages in the rainy/cultivation season can restrict own-farm ...
Lived experiences of Covid-19: impacts on an atoll island community, Papua New Guinea
Type: Report
This report details the findings from in-depth interviews with community members in an atoll island community in Manus Province, about their experiences during and after the PNG state of emergency. The interviews were ...
Using the sustainable livelihoods framework to identify constraints and opportunities to the development of freshwater prawn farming in southwest Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
A conceptual framework, drawn from an approach to poverty reduction known as the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA), is applied to understanding the role of freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii, farming in gher ...
Economic valuation of aquatic resources in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia
Type: Journal Article
The direct values of aquatic resources (freshwater) used in livelihood activities by rural households in Siem Reap, Cambodia were estimated using the net economic value method. The constraints faced by households to access ...
Crisis sentinel indicators: Averting a potential meltdown in the Coral Triangle
Type: Journal Article
The Coral Triangle (CT) includes some or all of the land and seas of six countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste (CT6). It covers only 1.1% of the world's ...
Influence of built structures on Tonle Sap fisheries : synthesis report
Type: Report
This document is a synthesis of the major findings and recommendation of a study on the influence of built structures on the fisheries of the Tonle Sap Lake. The multidisciplinary study analysed the influence and impact ...
Food security and the coral Triangle Initiative
Type: Journal Article
The 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 ...
Indigenous knowledge system for managing the flooding water commons in Zambia
Type: Presentation
Presentation from the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), Nairobi, Kenya, 19-24 June 2023.