The Aquaculture & Fisheries Collaborative Research Support Program (AquaFish CRSP), headquartered at Oregon State University, brings together resources from US and Host Country institutions to promote sustainable solutions in aquaculture and fisheries. Through integrated, multidisciplinary partnerships, the program aims to increase aquaculture productivity, enhance environmental stewardship, address gender integration, and...
The Aquaculture & Fisheries Collaborative Research Support Program (AquaFish CRSP) fosters the development of technological innovations in aquaculture and fisheries to provide direct results for increased production and decreased environmental impacts in host countries. Ensuring the availability and accessibility of successful technologies through in ventive dissemination techniques is a high...
In aquaculture and fisheries, the value chain consists of all the various processes and activities involved in
bringing fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants to market. In some regions it can be an indicator of the
economic welfare of poor communities involved in small-scale operations. In order to maximize
smallholder participation...
While the focus of Lake Victoria Nile-perch fishery is to serve the global market and tilapia is mainly for
domestic market in Tanzania; Dagaa has a great potential for small scale trade in regional markets. In
2006 a survey was conducted to assess the regional fish marketing channel for the...
Marketing of Mukene (Rastrineobola argentea) has become a lucrative business in Uganda after decades
of underutilization but its value-chain from capture to market remains unknown. Consequently, a study
was undertaken at two selected landing sites located along L. Victoria and several Kampala markets.
Using a structured questionnaire a total of...
Women in fishing communities play multidimensional roles. Women pervade fisheries and their roles
were identified as workers in both fisheries, markets, processing plants and non-fishery, mothers who
give birth to successors, as caregivers of the family, as connecting agents of social networks, as
representatives of local culture, as community workers...
Mainstreaming aims at incorporating gender concerns as an integral element in the implementation,
monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes so that benefits are shared equally and inequality
isn’t perpetuated. UNDP (2008) opined that investing in women competencies and empowering them to
exercise their choice is the surest way to...
Nigerian women in fishing sector remain a potent force in the economic growth of fishing communities.
The basic objective of involving women in fisheries Development is to make them equal partners to men.
That will enable them to participate productively and self-reliantly to improve their family’s nutritional
and living standards....
The author gives the background for the importance of the value chain network and the challenges of sustaining this network in developing nations. She presents the context for the papers and presentations in this special session on aquaculture and small fisheries markets and value chains with focus on gender.
Capture fisheries and aquaculture in freshwater bodies play a very important role and is considered to have great potential for augmenting fish production as well as diversification of livelihoods in both Cambodia and Vietnam. In Cambodia, inland fisheries remain primary importance in the fisheries sector, while aquaculture is more important...