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This edited book presents the emerging sustainable innovations in all areas of aquaculture in Africa with a view to create an opportunity whereby scientific outputs and recommendations can be endorsed for improved aquaculture outputs towards poverty alleviation and food security on the continent. Food insecurity and poverty are some of the challenges faced on the African continent. These challenges are further exacerbated by the growing human population and the impacts of climate change. Today, aquaculture has become one of the fastest food producing sectors in the world, with the potential to contribute significantly to food security and poverty alleviation in developing countries. In Africa, aquaculture is at an infant stage, however, many African countries have recognized the potential roles of aquaculture in food security, poverty alleviation and conservation of aquatic resources through their commitment to achieve the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals. The book reviews and synthesize research work from these thematic areas across Africa and provide a unique perspective on the emerging aquaculture innovations and illustrate how aquaculture practices could be feasible and cost effective while promoting social and environmental sustainability. The book also draws from global discussions on sustainable aquaculture practices and provides recommendations on what is feasible for Africa. This book is a great tool for the university students, scholars, aquaculture farmers, investors, and policymakers to understand the scientific based sustainable aquaculture innovations from an African perspective. This book is focused on SDG 2 and SDG 14.. .
Food security --- Sustainable aquaculture --- Aquaculture --- Sustainable agriculture --- Food deserts --- Food insecurity --- Insecurity, Food --- Security, Food --- Human security --- Food supply --- Zoology. --- Animal culture. --- Anatomy, Comparative. --- Sustainability. --- Animal Science. --- Animal Anatomy. --- Sustainability science --- Human ecology --- Social ecology --- Comparative anatomy --- Comparative morphology --- Zootomy --- Zoology --- Animal husbandry --- Husbandry, Animal --- Zoology, Economic --- Biology --- Natural history --- Animals --- Technology & Engineering
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This volume presents a series of case studies, at different levels of inclusivity, of how organisms exhibit functional convergence as a key evolutionary mechanism resulting in responses to similar environmental constraints in mechanically similar ways. The contributors to this volume have selected and documented cases of convergent evolution of form and function that are perceived to be driven by environmental abiotic and/or biotic challenges that fall within their areas of expertise. Collectively these chapters explore this phenomenon across a broad phylogenetic spectrum. The sequence of chapters follows the organizational principle of increasing phylogenetic inclusivity, rather than the clustering of chapters by perceived similarity of the phenotypic features or biomechanical challenges being considered. This is done to maintain focus on the evolutionary phenomenon that is the primary subject matter of the book, thereby providing a basis for discussion among the readership about what is necessary and sufficient to justify the recognition of functional convergence. All chapters stress the need for integrative approaches for the elucidation of both pattern and process as they relate to convergence at various taxonomic levels.
Evolution (Biology). --- Zoology. --- Anatomy, Comparative. --- Physiology. --- Ecophysiology. --- Materials. --- Bionics. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Animal Anatomy. --- Animal Physiology. --- Bioinspired Materials. --- Intellectronics --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Cybernetics --- Simulation methods --- Systems engineering --- Engineering --- Engineering materials --- Industrial materials --- Engineering design --- Manufacturing processes --- Ecological physiology --- Environmental physiology --- Physiological ecology --- Ecology --- Physiology --- Animal physiology --- Animals --- Biology --- Anatomy --- Comparative anatomy --- Comparative morphology --- Zootomy --- Zoology --- Natural history --- Animal evolution --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Materials --- Convergence (Biology) --- Evolution (Biology)
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