Capacity Building

Identifying best practices to improve the giant river prawn industry in Thailand

Part of the AquaFish Project: Improving Sustainability and Reducing Environmental Impacts of Aquaculture Systems in China, and South and Southeast Asia

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Assessing the Impacts of CRSP Research: Human Capital, Research Discovery, and Technology Adoption

This project focused on characterizing and assessing AquaFish CRSP’s Phase II (2009 – 2011) investigations.

CRSP:

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Assessing the Impacts of CRSP Research: Human Capital, Research Discovery, and Technology Adoption

Part of the AquaFish Project: Improving Competitiveness of African Aquaculture Through Capacity Building, Improved Technology, and Management of Supply Chain and Natural Resources

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Aquaculture information sources for small-scale fish farmers: the case of Ghana

Abstract: The Ghana ministry of fisheries and the ministry of Agriculture provide free extension services and other technical services to fish farmers in Ghana, e.g. producing […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): Kwamena K Quagrainie; Stephen Amisah; Charles C Ngugi
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

The International Plant Diagnostic Network (IPDN) in Africa: Improving capacity for diagnosing diseases of banana and other African crops

Coming soon

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): S.A. Miller; Z.M. Kinyua; F. Beed; C.L. Harmon; J. Xin; P. Vergot; T. Momol; R. Gilbertson; L. Garcia
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Impact of Trust on Farmer Learning: Results from Economic Experiments in Ecuador

Coming soon

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): S. Buck; J. Alwang
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Adaptive watershed management in the South American highlands: Learning and teaching on the fly

This chapter describes the Chimbo watershed in the Bolivar Province in Ecuador and efforts that are being made to increase agricultural productivity and soil quality in […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): J. Alwang; V. Barrera; R. Andrade; S. Hamilton; G.W. Norton
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Community organizing for natural resource management: Strategies for mitigating farmer-pastoralist conflict through decentralized governance

This chapter describes how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local institutions are addressing the issues of decentralization, natural resource management (NRM), and ethnic conflicts in the Inland […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): M. Bertelsen; S. Cisse; K.M. Moore; A. Toure
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Community-based wetland comanagement in Bangladesh

This chapter explains new solutions to problems resulting from top-down approaches to resource conservation and sustainability. The management of natural resources – in this case, wetlands […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): D.B. Sherwood
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Developing conservation agriculture production systems: An analysis of local networks

Abstract: Conservation agriculture (CA) has been trumpeted as the solution for reducing soil degradation and increasing agricultural productivity around the world. Some farmland settings, such as […]

  • Date of Publication: 2009
  • Author(s): S. Swenson; K.M. Moore
  • Type of Document: Research Report