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Incorporate Sustainable Livelihood Strategy on Recovery of Fisheries Livelihood in Krueng Raya Bay-Aceh, Indonesia

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  • Strategy of livelihood recovery should be promoted by community participation and their shelf-lesson learnt. This research assess the integration of sustainable livelihood strategies into fisheries livelihood recovery using indicators (poverty and income), external aid role, and fishing community engagement in arranging fisheries livelihood recovery.  It was conducted in Krueng Raya Bay-Aceh Province during September - October 2012. Survey, focus group discussion and interview were carried out to explore the state of income, poor, and the characteristics of fishing community. Poverty alleviation through increase of income was a main target of sustainable livelihood. It was indicate that increase of poverty was caused by a drop of income, a depletion of fish resource, assets production damage, and ecosystem degradation in fishing communities.  Their high dependency on fisheries resources, ranging between 0.61 and 0.81, also influenced poverty hikes. Reduced a number of poverty to 56.6% in 2009 from 97.7% in 2005, was supported by the recovery program of fisheries livelihood and the strong internal characteristics of fishing community. But, their capacity on financial capital was insufficient to restore fisheries livelihood without any aid delivered from Government of Indonesia and other donor agencies. Lesson learnt from engagement in reconstruction process, people in fishing communities recommended to integrate alternative livelihood development and social-ecological approach into development of fisheries livelihood.
  • Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, held July 11-15, 2016 at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
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  • Challenging New Frontiers in the Global Seafood Sector: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, July 11-15, 2016. Compiled by Ann L. Shriver. International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), Corvallis, 2016.
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  • Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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