A contributing factor to the 2008 “cottonii crisis” was the lack of timely, reliable decision critical information to stakeholders at all value chain levels – and especially to buyers. SEAPlant.net is contributing toward a solution to this problem by supplying the following products:

An Analysis of the Trade in Tropical Red Seaweed sand their Products 2000-2007. SEAPlant.net Monograph no. HB2B 1108 V2 TD

Structure and Development of Tropical Red Seaweed Value Chains. SEAPlant.net Monograph no. HB2A 1008 V2 VC

www.jasuda.net posts price discovery and data crop-logging information. This site is currently only in Bahasa Indonesia but an English language mirror site is in preparation.

GTZ and SEAPlant.net are presently seeking means for getting current trade data from the BIMP-EAGA countries so we can provide the most recent data by month for:

These data will be posted on www.seaplant.net in the future if there is sufficient industry interest.

www.jasuda.net posts industry news, notices of meetings and other information of interest to TSV stakeholders. This site is currently only in Bahasa Indonesia but an English language mirror site is in preparation and the site content is constantly expanding.

A reference list for commercially cultivated tropical red seaweeds. (SEAPlant.net Monograph no. HB2I 1008 V3 REF) indexes all of the references used in preparing SEAPlant.net monographs and also includes other references. SEAPlant.net is continually updating and expanding this list and hopes to provide links to many of these documents in the future.

www.seaplant.net links to Agriculture and Industry; Biopolymers; Environment, Society, and Art; Farming and Biotechnology; Nutraceutical, Pharmaceutical and Wellbeing; Sea Vegetables; Seaplant Science and Technology; and Other Links of Interest.

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2006. State of World Aquaculture 2006. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No. 500 (FAO Rome), 162 pp. This is a very useful eference with exhaustive treatment of fisheries and aquaculture data.

Tropical Red Seaweeds as a Foundation for Integrated Multi-trophic Aquaculture (IMTA); Four propositions and an action plan for this major opportunity in the Coral Triangle. SEAPlant.net Monograph no. HB2E 1008 V1 IMTA. Partly based on FAO 2006.