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

Monitoring and Evaluating the Impacts of Small-Scale Fishery Projects

Publication date:
January 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
The special nature of the fishery sector creates the need for approaches to project monitoring and evaluation which differ significantly from those used in other sectors. this volume cover a range of issues associated with fishery project impact monitoring and evaluation: (1) A.I.D.'s...Read more

Aspects of Small-Scale Fisheries Development

Publication date:
January 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
Small-scale fisheries development is a complex process. It involves consideration of everything from the availability of the resource to consumer acceptance of the product. The present volume reflects this complexity in that consideration is given to the areas of stock assessment, fisheries...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Latin America and the Caribbean

Fisheries Stock Assessment CRSP

Publication date:
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

Publication date:
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)

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Costa Rica
Latin America and the Caribbean

Effects of Parameter Variability on Length - Cohort Analysis

Publication date:
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

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa

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

Publication date:
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

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