First SPARK-STREAM Workshop on livelihoods and languages, Bangkok, Thailand, 9-11 April 2003. Livelihoods and languages: a SPARK-STREAM learning and communications process

The First SPARK-STREAM Workshop on Livelihoods and Languages took place in Bangkok, Thailand, from 9-11 April 2003. It was the first activity in a SPARK-STREAM learning and communications process around livelihoods and languages. (PDF contains 53 pages)

Learning and communicating about livelihoods: a process guide. Draft 23 June 2005

The process helps to build shared understandings through three phases: Defining the Conversation Group, Sharing Meanings and Sharing Understandings. (PDF contains 42 pages)

Development of lobster traps: preliminary experiments with three new designs of rectangular, Australian pot and ink-well traps

Result of experimental lobster fishing with three new designs, namely rectangular, Australian pot and ink-well traps at Muttam, Kadiapatnam, Colachal, Enayam and Vizhinjam, south-west coast of India during 1979-80 are reported. Preliminary studies show that Australian pot and rectangular traps as more efficient to the ink-well type.