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Agriculture

World Bank okays $50 m credit for Assam farm project

The World Bank has approved a $50-million additional credit for an ongoing agricultural project in Assam.

Publication Date: 
12/03/2012
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, World Bank, Assam, Groundwater, Rural Roads, Poverty, Orissa (Odisha), Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Livestock, Fisheries, Irrigation

Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security

The purpose of these Voluntary Guidelines is to serve as a reference and to provide guidance to improve the governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests with the overarching goal of achieving food security for all and to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security.

Publication Date: 
09/03/2012
FAO
Tags:
Land Tenure, Fisheries, Forests, Food Security, Climate Change, Natural Disasters
Agriculture

ATCL to venture into dairy farming

Jorhat, March 7: Assam Tea Corporation Limited will soon add milk to its tea.

Publication Date: 
09/03/2012
Telegraph (North East)
Tags:
Tea, Agriculture, Dairy Development, Milk, Jorhat (D), Assam, Fisheries
Fisheries

Pact with Malaysian body to develop fresh water fish

The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) has entered into an agreement with the Malaysia-based international body INFOFISH for the development and marketing of freshwater fish in In

Publication Date: 
06/03/2012
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Malaysia, Fisheries, Fish Marketing, Technology Transfer, Exports
Fisheries

Mukul launches acqua culture mission

Meghalaya today launched the State Aquaculture Mission with great fanfare to develop fishery as an alternate industry, amidst growing concern about rivers in the State turning acidic due to years o

Publication Date: 
06/03/2012
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Meghalaya, Fisheries, Rivers, Water Resources, Mining, Water Pollution, Fish Biodiversity, Farmers, Freshwater Ecosystems, Jaintia Hills, Coal, River Pollution, Hydroelectricity
Fisheries

Freshwater Dolphins get new protections in Asia

The Government of Bangladesh recently declared three new wildlife sanctuaries for endangered freshwater dolphins in the world's largest mangrove ecosystem — the Sundarbans, according to the Wildlif

Publication Date: 
05/03/2012
Environment News Network
Tags:
Fish, Asia, Dolphin, Marine Life, Endangered Species, Mangroves, Ganga, Sundarbans, Wildlife, Climate Change
Natural Disasters

Community based disaster preparedness in Mongla

An attractive session of Jarigaan (folk song) enthralled a large number of people including hundreds of students at Haldibunia Secondary School premises under Chila union of Mongla upazila in Bager

Publication Date: 
03/03/2012
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Bangladesh, South Asia, Natural Disasters, Climate Change, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Management, Agriculture, Fisheries, Livestock, Climate Mitigation, Floods
Fisheries

Community concerns

A two-day workshop, titled “Fishery-dependent Livelihoods, Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity: The Case of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas in India”, was held in New Delhi during 1-2 March 2012. The workshop was a follow-up to the one held in Chennai in 2009, which was titled “Social Dimensions of Marine Protected Area (MPA) Implementation in India: Do Fishing Communities Benefit?”.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2012
Sumana Narayanan
Samudra
61
40-46
Tags:
Fisheries, Fisherfolk, Legislation, Protected Area Conservation, Gulf Of Mannar Marine NP, Marine (Malvan) SA, Gahirmatha Marine SA, Sundarban NP, Gulf Of Kachchh, Marine Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Coastal Regulations, Turtles, Coexistence Strategies, Forest Personnel, Benefit Sharing
Fisheries

The people who spear pollock

The Passamaquoddy tribe in eastern Maine, US, are indigenous fishers who are trying to exercise sovereign rights to resources.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2012
Paul Molyneaux
Samudra
61
18-22
Tags:
Fisheries, Fisherfolk, United States Of America (US), Traditional Knowledge, Marine Fisheries, People
Fisheries

Fairness or efficiency?

As Europe moves towards privatization of fisheries, it is faced with the dilemma of balancing social and economic objectives in the new Common Fisheries Policy.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2012
Jeppe Host
Samudra
61
15-17
Tags:
Fisheries, European Union (EU), Private Sector, Marine Fisheries, Fisherfolk

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