The STREAM Initiative: support to regional aquatic resources management. Promoting participation, communication, and policies that support the livelihoods of poor aquatic resource users in the Asia-Pacific. Memorandum

Throughout the Asia-Pacific region capture fisheries and certain less intensive forms of aquaculture can and do play a vital role in livelihoods management, food security, and health and nutrition. Knowledge and experience exist that could be more effectively used in policy for poverty alleviation. (PDF contains 89 pages)

STREAM Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-12. January-March 2002

CONTENTS: Learning from each other about conflict, by Ronet Santos. E-learning to support knowledge sharing in aquatic resources, by Robert T. Raab and Jonathan Woods. Livelihood strategies, gender and participation in aquaculture: findings from participatory research in northwestern Sri Lanka, by Lindsay J. Pollock and David C. Little. Farming of giant tiger shrimp in northern central Vietnam, by Jesper Clausen. Interacting with stakeholders and policy-makers, by To Phuc Tuong. The role of nutrition communications in meeting the nutritional challenges of the Asia-Pacific region, by Georgina Cairns. (PDF has 16 pages.)