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|  | | | | Title | Modelling for aquaculture related development, poverty and needs in the Mekong basin
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| | Author(s) / Editor(s) | Van Brakel, M.L.; Muir, J.F.; Ross, L.G. | | Description | Agriculture, including fisheries, will remain the prime economic activity in the Mekong River basin in the foreseeable future. The majority of the basin’s approximately 60 million inhabitants, of whom about 50 million live in the Lower Mekong basin, are farmers and fishers. Agriculture and fisheries production is concentrated in the lowlands areas of the basin and is interlinked with annual flooding of the Tonle Sap and the Mekong Delta. Maintenance of the annual flood cycle is essential to the continued production of rice and fisheries. Poverty is predominantly rural and associated with working in a low productivity agricultural sector. Major increases in farm productivity and profitability can probably be made if these systems are integrated with aquaculture. If well targeted, livelihoods of the rural poor could benefit substantially from integration of aquaculture with floodplain fisheries, rice production and crop-livestock production systems. Depending on the availability and access to land and inputs (feeds and seeds), aquaculture could compensate at least partly for the annual shortfall of fish supply, while providing an alternative livelihood to those users who are excluded from access to fishing areas. Spatial assessments at district and commune level provide a good starting point to adequately focus aquaculture development on areas where the poor depend disproportionately on aquatic resources. At this level, however, the next step is to disaggregate the available data into a poverty and vulnerability profile, and emphasise shortfalls to poor people’s basic needs. Using the spatial approach, design and planning of aquaculture development could effectively be adapted to local contexts in order to introduce appropriate aquaculture related livelihood options and help alleviate rural poverty. PDF file. | | Keywords | AQUACULTURE DEVELOPMENT; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; MODELLING | | Geography Keywords | SOUTH EAST ASIA; MEKONG RIVER | | Content Language(s) | English | | File Location | | |
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| Publication Date | 2003 | |
| Source | Proceedings of the 2nd Large Rivers Conference. Phnom Penh. Cambodia. | | Reference Info | | |
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Editor(s) | | · | James Muir | | · | Chief Editor | |
Sub-topics | | · | ARCHIVE | | · | Poverty and livelihoods | |
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