Category: Environmentally Friendly Aquaculture
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Managed Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Native Fish in Thailand’s Omkoi District
The integration of conservation and sustainable utilization strategies represents a promising approach for managing freshwater resources in rural highland regions. The experience of Omkoi District demonstrates that community-based aquaculture can effectively enhance food security and at the same time reduce pressure on natural fish populations.
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Roles, Limitations, and Opportunities for Women to Work in Cambodia’s Integrated Shrimp-Mangrove Systems
In terms of shrimp-mangrove farming in Cambodia, the existing evidence implies that women are key laborers, marketers, and household decision‑makers, but are poorly represented in formal farm, cooperative, and mangrove‑governance decisions. Designing farming systems to be equitable requires explicit inclusion of women in producer groups, co‑management institutions, training, and benefit‑sharing mechanisms.
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Harnessing Genetic Improvement as a Nature-based Solution for a Sustainable and Resilient Aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific
As policymakers and development partners increasingly prioritize the concepts of both NbS and Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), integration of genetic improvement programs into aquaculture strategies offers a practical and scalable method to foster resilient, equitable, and sustainable aquatic food systems for all.
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Invisible Hands in the Water: Women’s Roles in the Small-Scale Aquaculture of the Mekong Delta
The nature-based aquaculture systems of the Delta have survived centuries of flood, drought, and market upheaval in no small part because of the accumulated ecological knowledge of those who tend the systems; and the greater part of that wisdom has flowed through the hands of women.
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Invisible Ripples: Small-Scale Aquaculture Ponds Through a Gender Lens
They manage the money, they monitor the water levels and they guard the ponds. Yet in many aquaculture households, women are rarely recognized as the primary breadwinners. Behind assets worth billions of VND are grandmothers, mothers and wives labelled “homemakers”, with little say over the property they helped build.
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