Eco-technological analysis of fish farming households in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.

2017 ◽  
pp. 77-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Pekar ◽  
N. V. Be ◽  
D. N. Long ◽  
N. V. Cong ◽  
D. T. Dung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Farming Households ◽  
Technological Analysis

Factors affecting farmers’ adoption of integrated rice-fish farming systems in the Mekong delta, Vietnam

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roel H. Bosma ◽  
Dang K. Nhan ◽  
Henk M. J. Udo ◽  
Uzay Kaymak
Keyword(s):  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Rice Fish

scholarly journals Food security assessment of NGO supported and own managed pond fish farmers of two districts in Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Akhi ◽  
MT Uddin ◽  
MM Islam
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Logit Model ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Calorie Intake ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Food Security Status ◽  
Farming Households ◽  
Daily Calorie Intake

The study was conducted to assess the food security status of pond fish farming under NGO supported and own managed and to evaluate the influential factors of NGOs’ intervention on pond fish farmers’ food security in two districts of Bangladesh. Random sampling technique was used to select farmers from two groups of pond fish farming: one is NGO supported and another is own managed farmers. A total of 120 farmers (60 for NGO supported and 60 for own managed) were selected for data collection. To identify the factors influencing the food security status of fish farming households, a food security index (Z) was constructed and food security status of each household was determined based on the food security line using the recommended daily calorie intake approach. Logit model was used to estimate the food security status of households as a function of a set of independent determinants. Based on the recommended daily calorie intake of 2122 kcal, it is observed that 95 percent of the households were food secure and 5 percent households were food insecure in case of NGO supported fish farmers. On the other hand, 30 percent of the households were food secure and 70 percent households were food insecure in case of own managed fish farmers. The result of logit model shows that six out of eight variables included in the model were significant in explaining the variation in food security status. These variables were: age of the household head, education level of the household head, farm size, intervention on fish farming, income from fish and non-farm income. The study, therefore, recommended improved access to technical supports of pond fish farming households is necessary to ensure food security status at the national level.J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 13(2): 273-281, December 2015

Case study on the National Aquaculture Strategic Plan in Malawi.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisungu E. Banda ◽  
Jeremiah Kang'ombe ◽  
Emmanuel K. W. Kaunda
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Fish Production ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Plan Study ◽  
The Government ◽  
Aquaculture Development ◽  
Farming Households

Abstract This case study provides an analysis of the implementation of the National Aquaculture Strategic Plan (NASP) for Malawi. The NASP is a strategic document for aquaculture development in Malawi that was created in response to a request from the Government of Malawi (GoM) to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to conduct a Master Plan Study on Aquaculture Development. The NASP was set to improve aquaculture development from 2005 to 2015. The aquaculture sector plays a significant role as a source of food, income and employment to Malawi's population. It is estimated that the sector provides about 2% of the nation's fish production and, among fish farming households, to contribute up to 17% of household income, depending on fish farming activities. Fish from both aquaculture and capture fisheries contribute about 4% to the country's GDP and provide almost 70% of animal protein and 40% of total protein thereby contributing to the country's food security and livelihood strategies. The purpose of the case study was to provide a clear understanding of the existing state of the NASP. The case study involves a number of stakeholders that were chosen randomly from the NASP document as partners in its implementation. The study analyses the progress of the NASP implementation by looking at whether the implementation structure was functioning, it also assessed the knowledge of the stakeholders on the document, the linkage of the stakeholders, the coordination among stakeholders and developments in fish production through aquaculture. The results show that the institutional structures that were proposed to implement and monitor all the NASP strategies and activities have not been formed. This has led to lack of knowledge of the document by some stakeholders. Poor coordination and networking among the stakeholders has also led to the failure of the strategic plan. The case study concludes that there is an urgent need for the formulation of a separate institutional structure to look into aquaculture development in Malawi with the help of the Departement of Fisheries (DoF) and all the stakeholders so as to help review and process the NASP action plans if quantitative progress is to be achieved.

Malnutrition among children in rural Malawian fish-farming households

2009 ◽  
Vol 103 (8) ◽  
pp. 827-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirotsugu Aiga ◽  
Sadatoshi Matsuoka ◽  
Chushi Kuroiwa ◽  
Sachio Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Fish Farming ◽  
Farming Households

scholarly journals Assessment of Household Food Security in Fish Farming Communities in Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akua S. Akuffo ◽  
Kwamena K. Quagrainie
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Quality ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Ecological Zone ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Food Consumption Score ◽  
The Government ◽  
Farming Households ◽  
Food Consumed

The Government of Ghana and international NGOs have been encouraging the adoption of fish farming to alleviate poverty and food insecurity through training workshops, financial contributions and creation of a fisheries ministry. Nevertheless, there is no study on how these efforts have influenced the household’s welfare, particularly their nutritional quality. Based on this, our objective is to identify the ways through which fish farming impacts the household’s nutritional quality. We hypothesize that engaging in fish farming will increase steady income flow and access to fish for the household’s direct consumption. We adopted the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) approach in a logit framework to achieve this objective and address the endogeneity from the bias of self -selection by creating a statistically similar-looking control group. The results suggest that fish farming households have higher nutritional quality and frequency of food consumed than the non-fish farming households through direct consumption. The probability of adopting fish farming increases with wealth, location, ecological zone and household size but decreases with household income per capita. The average effect of adopting fish farming on household nutritional quality is 15.5 Food Consumption Score points. Policies that encourage women to engage in not only fish processing, but production as well are advised.

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