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Farmer participatory procedures for managing and monitoring sustainable farming systems
This paper aims to devise a farmer participatory method that not only improves farmer management of natural resources, but also monitors the impact of improvements. This assessment is made in terms of: economic efficiency, biological material recycling, ...
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Flow modelling with ECOPATH: providing insights on the ecological state of agroecosystems
This paper summarizes the major findings in modelling and analysing agroecosystems using ECOPATH. Ecosystems Agriculture Dalsgaard, J.P.T. Christensen, V. 4 083 Download Thursday, February 16, 2017 Wednesday, January 1, 1997 p. 203-212. In: Teng, P.S. et ...
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A Manual for improving fish production in Northern Zambia through integrated farming systems
This manual was written as part of the Integrated Research in Development for Improved Livelihoods Programme in Northern Province, Zambia (IRDLP) and is primarily intended for extension agents to use with smallholder farmers engaged in semi-intensive fish ...
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Measuring nutritional quality of agricultural production systems: Application to fish production
Reorienting food systems towards improving nutrition outcomes is vital if the global goal of ending all forms of malnutrition is to be achieved. Crucial to transitioning to nutrition-sensitive agriculture is valuing and measuring nutritional quality of ...
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Innovation platforms in agricultural research for development: Ex-ante appraisal of the purposes and conditions under which innovation platforms can contribute to agricultural development outcomes
Innovation platforms are fast becoming part of the mantra of agricultural research for development projects and programmes. Their basic tenet is that stakeholders depend on one another to achieve agricultural development outcomes, and hence need a space ...
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Consultation on wild resources and livelihoods in the Ayeyarwady Basin
Field consultations on the role of wild resources in people’s livelihoods were conducted in the Ayeyarwady Basin from the delta in the south to Putao in the north of Myanmar. Interviews and group discussions with local people, key government, and non ...
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Building coalitions, creating change: An agenda for gender transformative research in agricultural development
The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) has developed its Gender Research in Development Strategy centered on a transformative approach. Translating this strategy into actual research and development practice poses a considerable ...
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Building resilient community fisheries in Cambodia
By bringing together diverse stakeholders in a collaborative process, a WorldFish initiative has strengthened the collective capacity of an emerging grassroots network of fishing communities to: identify and articulate threats; negotiate with authorities ...
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Cage-pond integration of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) and Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) with carps
Cage-pond integration system is a new model for enhancing productivity of pond aquaculture system. A field trial was conducted using African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) and Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in cages and carps in earthen ponds. This ...
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CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health
In the developing world, more than 1 billion people depend on fish for most of their animal protein, and another 1 billion people depend on livestock. Poor people, especially women and children, typically eat very little meat, milk and fish. This ...
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