Category: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion

NbS can play a crucial role in promoting elderly inclusion in aquaculture by reducing labor intensity and aligning production systems. Rather than viewing population aging as a barrier to sustainability, labor-reducing NbS offer a pathway to enable older farmers to remain productively engaged in aquaculture with dignity, autonomy, and reduced physical strain.

Positioning persons with disabilities as active contributors within nature-based aquaculture systems allows Vietnam to mobilize underutilized local knowledge, reinforce community stewardship, and ensure that the transition toward sustainable aquaculture genuinely leaves no one behind.

Men and women worked together to found in 2010 the Blue Crab Bank, a Nature-based Solution (NbS), that bred and released egg-bearing crabs to restore the sea’s fertility. Women took central roles in this transition.

Only by fully recognizing and integrating Indigenous knowledge can Vietnam build an aquaculture sector that is ecologically sustainable, socially just, and resilient to future climate challenges.

For NbS to reach their full potential within aquaculture-dependent communities, women cannot be relegated to passive recipients of aid, nor can men be reduced to one-dimensional decision-makers. Both must be recognized as active agents and knowledge-holders, whose complementary perspectives are essential for building resilience.