Improving Productivity and Environmental Performance of Aquaculture
Fish—including finfish and shellfish—are an important item in the human food basket, contributing 17 per cent of the global animal-based protein supply in 2010. They are an especially valuable food ...
Protecting Fish Habitat
Preserving fish habitat is often just a matter of proper planning and following a few simple rules as you carry out projects along your shoreline ...
Water Quality and Agriculture: Meeting the Policy Challenge
The key challenges for policy makers in addressing water quality issues in agriculture are to reduce farm contaminant lost into water systems while encourage agriculture to generate or conserve a ...
Opportunities for optimization of in-field water harvesting to cope with changing climate in semi-arid smallholder farming areas of Zimbabwe
In-field water harvesting for improved crop yields in the semi-arid regions is one approach that has been used to adapt to changing the climate. ...
BRACED: Resilience Exchange
An increased and stable income, supported by access to appropriate financial services, can help build people’s capacity to manage hard times, particularly if they are linked to climate services that ...
Global Water Partnership (GWP) Integrated Water Resources Management ToolBox
Global Water Partnership (GWP) Integrated Water Resources Management ToolBox. The IWRM ToolBox is a free and open database with a library of background papers, policy briefs, technical briefs and ...
Report- Aquaculture Planning Guidelines
In some cases, community perceptions of aquaculture are drawn from overseas experiences and popular press that tend to characterise the industry in one basket. In reality, aquaculture features a wide ...
Fisheries Management
Fishing vessels have traditionally been uncontrolled. However, with fish stocks declining around the globe, effective fisheries management has become essential if fish stocks are to regain some sort ...
Creating a fertile future for smallholder farmers in Africa
The main obstacle to training is literacy, he says, “so a lot of training has to be farmer-trains-farmer, or it has to be visual, or it has to be co-op-based where people meet and discuss things – you ...
FIGARO
FIGARO (Flexible and Precise Irrigation Platform to Improve Farm Scale Water Productivity) is an EU-funded project, focused on significantly reducing the use of fresh water on farm level through ...
Solutions
Do you have a solution that matches one of the identified water-related needs of African stakeholders? Please submit it to the AfriAlliance Solutions Hub here.