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The successful development of aquaculture depends on the use of a common language and standardization of terminology. This publication, validated by international experts, contains over 2 500 terms and includes definitions, information sources, synonyms and related terms, in Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish.
The workshop reviewed progress in post-harvest fish utilisation in Africa and made recommendations to FAO, its member countries and institutes interested in fish utilisation in Africa. The experts reviewed in particular fresh or live fish handling, fish processing, post-harvests loss assessment, quality and safety, and marketing and socio-economic issues.
An estimated 70 countries grow poplars and willows in planted forests and as landscape trees. This book synthesizes the latest knowledge, technology and research on poplars and willows in an accessible format, providing a practical worldwide overview and guide to their basic characteristics, cultivation and use, and issues, problems and trends.
The main objective of these guidelines is to assist countries, institutions and policy-makers in the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure the sustainability of the aquaculture sector, integration of aquaculture with other sectors and its contribution to social and economic development.
Presents the Codex standards for waters and codes of hygienic practice for bottled/packaged drinking waters, and for collecting, processing and marketing of natural mineral waters. This first edition includes texts adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission up to 2007. Also published in French and Spanish.
Identifies the positive and negative impacts of aquaculture with their far-reaching socio-economic implications. While they agreed that multi-criteria decision-making framework using analytical hierarchy process as a measurement technique is a suitable method for assessing socio-economic impacts of aquaculture, experts recognised that other methods could also be used depending on circumstances.
