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Integrating water and waste management to support sustainable inland aquaculture

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Publication date
31/05/1999
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Other
Focus Region:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Focus Topic:
Land / Water / Resource Management
Type of Risk:
Biological & environmental
Type of Risk Managment Option:
Risk reduction/mitigation
Commodity:
Crops
Source
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/RLAquaR7064CPLittle.pdf
Author
Little, D.C.; Haylor, G.S.

This presentation covered the following topics:

  • Stand-alone aqua-production
  • How flood and drought promote integration
  • Why integration has occurred where it has
  • Water availability and fish production
  • How nutrient availability affects the evolution of aquaculture
  • Options where nutrients are limiting
  • Nutrient concentration
  • Options where nutrients are polluting
  • Wastewater use – nutrients and water
  • Recycling nutrients and water-land availability
  • Constraints and conflicts
  • Urban planners and engineers threaten future of peri-urban systems
  • Future directions