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Thursday, 9th May 2013
Shahnaz Dewan, a former elected member of local government, lives in Adabari village in Tangail...
Tuesday, 16th April 2013
I had just arrived at our training venue in Dhaka and watched as the manager stood at the top of...
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Thursday, 16th May 2013
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Tuesday, 14th May 2013
Jessore, Bangladesh (4-5 May 2013)
To promote the...
Wednesday, 24th April 2013
The government of Timor-Leste has developed a National Aquaculture Development...
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Wednesday, 2nd January 2013
Aquaculture, Fisheries, Poverty and Food Security
Allison, E.H. 2011.
Fisheries and aquaculture play important roles in providing food and income in many developing countries, either as a stand-alone activity or in association with crop agriculture and livestock rearing. The aim of this paper is to identify how these contributions of fisheries and aquaculture to poverty...
Friday, 14th December 2012
Recently Director General Stephen Hall received a letter from a concerned seven year old, Bella Andrew, on the health of the oceans, climate change and the state of global fisheries. She clearly describes the problems she has observed, and offers some solutions to these problems. Below is their correspondance.
Thursday, 13th December 2012
Women selling fish on the roadside, Egypt. Photo by Samuel Stacey, 2012
A group of women fish retailers in the Egyptian region of Shakshouk near Fayoum are realizing better profits from the sale of their fish after acquiring iceboxes. Iceboxes help them keep their fish fresh in the market, allowing them to sell more stock each day.
The iceboxes were supplied by...
Monday, 10th December 2012
Presentation by Douglas Beare at the 2nd International Conference on Climate Change and Social Issues, held in Kuala Lumpur from 28 to 29 November, 2012.
Strategies for adaptation to climate change in Timor Leste: the importance of climate thresholds from WorldFish
Monday, 10th December 2012
Presentation by Afrina Choudhury and Melody Braun at the 2nd International Conference on Climate Change and Social Issues, held in Kuala Lumpur from 28 to 29 November, 2012.
Impacts of climate smart integrated farming systems on women's nutrition and health in Bangladesh from WorldFish
Friday, 16th November 2012
At least one-third of the species that inhabit the world’s oceans may remain completely unknown to science. That’s despite the fact that more species have been described in the last decade than in any previous one, according to a report published online on November 15 in the Cell Press publication Current Biology that details the first comprehensive register of marine species of the world—a...
Friday, 9th November 2012
Despite 40 years of gender being on the development agenda, inequalities have persisted which are greatly hampering progress in reducing poverty and food insecurity. A rethink is needed in how agricultural research and development addresses gender, with a new focus on approaches that challenge the norms and power relations that enable social inequalities to exist and persist. This was the...
Thursday, 8th November 2012
A presentation by Patrick Dugan, Program Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems, at the 2012 Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development. Held in Uruguay from the 27th of October to the 2nd of November, 2012.
Establishing effective livelihood research partnerships for impact at scale from WorldFish
Thursday, 8th November 2012
By Caity Peterson
Source: CCAFS Blog
Catfish farmers in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta are barely scraping by. They operate on the tightest of profit margins – 3% to 5% in a good year – and deal with a highly volatile, boom-and-bust export market. For an industry that’s already on the brink, could the addition of negative climate change impacts push it over the edge?
Researchers at...
Tuesday, 6th November 2012
Biodiversity loss and food insecurity are two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century.
The Asia-Pacific's Coral Triangle is defined by its extremely high marine biodiversity, with over one hundred million people living in its coastal zones who use this biodiversity to support their livelihoods.
Biodiversity and its values to society are threatened by demographic and...