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- This case study of aquaculture in Indonesia is one of a series of individual country case studies which, together with synthesis papers and the report of a workshop, provide a detailed overview of feed and fertiliser use in sustainable aquaculture development in developing countries. The full report, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No.497, was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2007. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Abidin Nur
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a1444e/a1444e09.pdf
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- This case study of aquaculture in Thailand is one of a series of individual country case studies which, together with synthesis papers and the report of a workshop, provide a detailed overview of feed and fertiliser use in sustainable aquaculture development in developing countries. The full report, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No.497, was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2007. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- S Thongrod
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a1444e/a1444e11.pdf
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- This is one of two case studies of aquaculture in Vietnam from a series of individual country case studies which, together with synthesis papers and the report of a workshop, provide a detailed overview of feed and fertiliser use in sustainable aquaculture development in developing countries. The full report, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No.497, was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2007. Other sections of this publication are also catalogued in the e-library.
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- Le Thanh Hung; Huynh Pham Viet Huy
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a1444e/a1444e12.pdf
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- This report attempts to estimate the social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution damage categories: urban air pollution, inadequate water supply and indoor air pollution as well as four natural resource damage categories: agricultural damage, rangeland degradation, deforestation and natural disasters. The report provides estimated costs in Rupees for all of the above categories. This report was published by The World Bank in 2012.
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- Muthukumara Mani; Anil Markandya; Aarsi Sagar; Elena Strukova
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- The World Bank Group
- https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/12065
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- This report explores the benefits, risks and threats and negative economic impacts of using fish aggregating devices (FADs) as a method of boosting fish production and increasing food security. Specialist technical information is also included including how to choose a site and how to construct and install an FAD. This report was published by FAO in 2012.
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- Steve Beverly; Don Griffiths; Robert Lee
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/i3087e/i3087e00.htm
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- This study provides an overview of the global packaging industry, assesses the status and trends of food packaging in developing countries and identifies some food packaging solutions in developing countries.
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- Nerlita M. Manalili; Moises A. Dorado; Robert van Otterdijk
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3684e.pdf
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- This report examines the impacts of aquaculture development on poverty, markets and trade research in support of pro-poor aquaculture development, global trends in aquaculture, key issues for reducing poverty and hunger, assuring the growth in aquaculture in Asia generates livelihoods for the poor, assuring higher rates of fish consumption by the poor and emerging priorities for research on markets and trade. This report was published by WorldFish in 2011.
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- A. Gordon; L. Kassam
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2828.pdf
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- This study investigates the sustainability of aquaculture extension projects in Kapasia Upazila in Gazipur District in Bangladesh, surveying the household socioeconomic changes and pond aquaculture practices and changes since the end of earlier specific extension efforts. It also presents the results of detailed monitoring of sixty-nine ponds in Kapasia, a fish consumption survey in Kapasia, case studies of aquaculture technologies in Kapasia and a survey of fish markets and consumers.
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- P. M. Thompson; P. Sultana; A. K. M. Firoz Khan
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_559.pdf
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- This report reviews the importance of rice and fish in rural Cambodia, the current status of the aquaculture sector in Cambodia, the challenges for poor people adopting fish farming and examples of small-scale aquaculture development initiatives. This report was published by WorldFish in 2010.
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- O. Joffre; Y. Kura; J. Pant; S. Nam
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2769.pdf
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- This brief report highlights some of the key findings relating to the ASEAN region taken from a global review of the impacts of aquaculture on the environment including an overview of aquaculture in the region, an analysis of how aquaculture affects the ocean life cycle and a prediction of future demand.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2819.pdf
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- This brief report describes the livelihood options adopted by participants of the Adivasi Fisheries Project in Bangladesh, including pond aquaculture, rice-fish farming, cage culture of fingerlings, habitat restoration, fingerling trading, food fish trading and netting teams.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2484.pdf
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- This short article examines the effects aquaculture has on agriculture through a study on rice fields skirting three shrimp farms and finds that aquaculture and agriculture can coexist in coastal areas if there are buffer zones between them. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldFish Center, in 2000.
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- S. A. Khan; P. Lyla; N. Veerappan; S. Rajagopal
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/aq1.pdf
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- This paper identifies how the contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to poverty reduction and food security can be enhanced while maintaining sustainability in over-exploited and over-capitalized capture fisheries and improving environmental performance. This paper was published by WorldFish in 2011.
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- The WorldFish Center
- http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/WF_2971.pdf
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- This report ranks countries and river basins worldwide based on their exposure water-related risks. It provides national and basin-level scores derived from more localized water-risk scores from the Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas.
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- Francis Gassert; Paul Reig; Tianyi Luo; Andrew Maddocks
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-country-river-basin-rankings
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- This report contains 14 indicators of water quantity, water variability, water quality, public awareness of water issues, access to water and ecosystem vulnerability for the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia. The results of this study helped to inform and shape the global Aqueduct Water Risk Framework.
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- Francis Gassert; Pragyajan Rai; Paul Reig; Matt Luck
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-metadata-document-mekong-river-basin-study
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- This report contains 14 indicators of water quantity, water variability, water quality, public awareness of water issues, access to water and ecosystem vulnerability for the Yangtze River Basin in China. The results of this study helped to inform and shape the global Aqueduct Water Risk Framework.
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- Francis Gassert; Tianyi Luo; Tien Shiao; Matt Luck
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-metadata-document-yangtze-river-basin-study
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- This report contains 14 indicators of water quantity, water variability, water quality, public awareness of water issues, access to water and ecosystem vulnerability for the Yellow River Basin in China. The results of this study helped to inform and shape the global Aqueduct Water Risk Framework.
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- Francis Gassert; Tianyi Luo; Tien Shiao; Matt Luck
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-metadata-document-yellow-river-basin-study
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- This report describes the Aqueduct Water Risk Framework, the indicators it includes and the methodology used to combine them into aggregated, comprehensive risk scores. The Aqueduct Water Risk Framework includes indicators of water quantity, water variability, water quality, public awareness of water issues, access to water and ecosystem vulnerability.
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- Paul Reig; Tien Shiao; Francis Gassert
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- World Resources Institute (WRI)
- http://www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-water-risk-framework
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- This document studies agricultural trade policies in five countries, including Bangladesh, analyzing the country's agricultural trade policy issues, trade-related support measures for agriculture and mainstreaming trade policy. This document was published by FAO in 2011.
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- Ramesh Sharma; Jamie Morrison (editors)
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i2305e/i2305e00.htm
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- This document reports on the regional consultation of the proposed voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land attended by representatives from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam which was held to assess regional priorities and issues to be considered when the guidelines were drafted.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/ak802e/ak802e00.pdf
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- This report assesses the current situation of environmental pollution in the craft villages in Vietnam; the awareness and level of concern of rural communities about environmental management, particularly on environmental pollution; the nature and extent of collaboration among rural stakeholders to manage environmental problems; and analysed the current situation and provided actions plans and recommendations within the context of two upland areas in Vietnam.
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- Nguyen Khac Quynh; Tran Van The; Le Viet Luu
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/af332e/af332e00.htm
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- This report (in 21 parts) presents a set of objectives, goals, methodologies and a checklist for assessment and communication of environmental risks potentially associated with coastal aquaculture. Six case studies illustrate the use of environmental risk assessment methodologies in coastal aquaculture discussing benthic community changes, shellfish farming, interbreeding of wild and escaped farm cod, fish farming waste, soil salinisation due to low-salinity shrimp farming and coastal aquaculture's potential effects on algal blooms.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/i0035e/i0035e00.htm
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- This report (in 21 parts) presents a set of objectives, goals, methodologies and a checklist for assessment and communication of environmental risks potentially associated with coastal aquaculture. Six case studies illustrate the use of environmental risk assessment methodologies in coastal aquaculture discussing benthic community changes, shellfish farming, interbreeding of wild and escaped farm cod, fish farming waste, soil salinisation due to low-salinity shrimp farming and coastal aquaculture's potential effects on algal blooms.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/i0035e/i0035e00.htm
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- This report (in 21 parts) presents a set of objectives, goals, methodologies and a checklist for assessment and communication of environmental risks potentially associated with coastal aquaculture. Six case studies illustrate the use of environmental risk assessment methodologies in coastal aquaculture discussing benthic community changes, shellfish farming, interbreeding of wild and escaped farm cod, fish farming waste, soil salinisation due to low-salinity shrimp farming and coastal aquaculture's potential effects on algal blooms.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/i0035e/i0035e00.htm
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- This report (in 21 parts) presents a set of objectives, goals, methodologies and a checklist for assessment and communication of environmental risks potentially associated with coastal aquaculture. Six case studies illustrate the use of environmental risk assessment methodologies in coastal aquaculture discussing benthic community changes, shellfish farming, interbreeding of wild and escaped farm cod, fish farming waste, soil salinisation due to low-salinity shrimp farming and coastal aquaculture's potential effects on algal blooms.
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/i0035e/i0035e00.htm
