Productivity and Efficiency

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, water efficiency is the smart use of our water resources through water-saving technologies and simple steps. Using water efficiently will help ensure reliable water supplies today and for future generations. Topics addressed in this theme provide insights, lessons, and guidance on how diverse stakeholders are working to improve water management and reduce water use.

Productivity and Efficiency Resources

Fisheries Stock Assessment CRSP

Published: 
January 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
Summarizes an external evaluation and a management review (XD-AAZ-903-A and XD-AAZ-903-B) of a project to develop and document improved methodologies for determining the level of fish stocks in multispecies tropical systems. External evaluation covered the period through 7/88. The project has...Read more

Manpower Training Needs Assessment for the Sultanate of Oman Fishery Sector

Published: 
December 30, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
The purpose of this consultancy was to conduct an assessment which would: (1) identify the human resource requirements of the sector, including the fisheries private sector, the Fisheries Department at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), and the Directorate General of Fisheries (DGF); and (2) propose...Read more

Comparative Study of Postlarval Life - History Schedules in Four Sympatric Species of Cancer (Decapoda, Brachyura, Cancridae)

Published: 
December 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
The methods and ideas presented in this working paper are derived primarily from Garrison Bay which is a north temperate homologue to the Bay of Nicoya. Both bays are shallow, subjected to seasonal input of fresh water and extremely muddy. Whereas many of the shallow parts of the Bay of Nicoea are...Read more
Regional focus: 
Costa RicaLatin America and the Caribbean

Inferring the Distribution of the Parameters of the Von Bertalanffy Growth Model from Length Moments

Published: 
December 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
The primary foal of the paper is to provide a framework for future research in generalizing Sainsbury's approach by considering (k, L) to be a random vector described by a joint probability density function and by allowing broader classes of distributions to be considered. Minimum cross-...Read more

Effects of Parameter Variability on Length - Cohort Analysis

Published: 
December 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Virtual Population Analysis and its approximation, Cohort Analysis are standard techniques for stock assessment when historical catch-at-age data are available. Jones proposed a length-cohort analysis in which length frequency data are used to construct a synthetic cohort when information about...Read more

Djibouti Fisheries Development Project

Published: 
December 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report is one of a series of Center for Development Information and Evaluation (CDIE) special studies analyzing the Agency for International Development's (A.I.D) experience in technology transfer. Whereas most previous CDIE evaluations emphasized the impact of projects on intended...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

USAID and World Bank Workshop on Training Needs and Strategies for Irrigated Agriculture, Washington, Dc, June 1-3, 1988

Published: 
December 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
During the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage Congress at Casablanca, Morocco in September of 1987 Worth Fitzgerald of A.I.D. and Peter Sun of the Economic Development Institute (World Bank) invited a number of people to discuss the prospect of holding a "Workshop on Training...Read more

Development of a Swimming Crab Fishery in Ecuador

Published: 
November 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
This paper looks at the development of a swimming crab fishery in Ecuador. Since the 1950's, lesser developed countries have made increasing efforts to examine their fishery resources. Fishery development activities have multifaceted objectives but basically one overall goal: to improve the...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Progress Report: Integration of Aquaculture in Irrigation Schemes

Published: 
November 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report describes experimental work performed on Israel from November 1987 to November 1988. It also describes the contact between the Costa-Rican and Israeli team and the reasons for the delay in starting the project in Costa-Rica.Read more
Regional focus: 
IsraelMiddle East and North Africa

Sultanate of Oman: Fisheries Development Master Plan

Published: 
November 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
The goals for fisheries development in the Sultanate of Oman have been established by the Sultan, His Majesty Qaboos bin Said. The four goals are: 1) diversify the national economy; 2) promote rural development and halt urban migration; 3) improve nutrition among the Omani people; and 4)...Read more
Regional focus: 
Middle East and North Africa

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