With current and anticipated increases in magnitude of extreme weather events and a declining consistency in weather patterns, particularly challenging for agriculture, there has been a growing interest in weather index-based insurance (IBI) schemes in Bangladesh. A number of weather index-based...

This study tests the hypothesis that climate change, through its rice productivity impacts, induces out-migration in the Philippines. Results show that climate change effects such as increasing night time temperature and extreme rainfall pattern, by way of reduction in rice yield and farm...

This report from WorldFish is divided into two sections, with annexes. Section One contains the workshop report, including the workshop results and outputs. Section Two contains summary papers of the workshop presentations with a record of relevant points of discussion. The annexes contain...

This calendar illustrates some of the research in which WorldFish and Department for International Development (DFID) are engaged. The calendar has beautiful pictures of the people we helped, recipes included and facts about fisheries in developing countries.

From October 2006 to May 2008, The WorldFish Center coordinated a ZoNΘCo project to provide support to the Southern and Northern Provinces for decisions about how best to manage the sea cucumber fishery around La Grande Terre. We collected data during underwater population surveys,...

Research by the WorldFish Center and its partners on tilapia began in the late 1970s and focused on key issues that affect their production and conservation. WorldFish Center library as part of its effort to serve the information needs of the Center staff, partners and other external users...