Category: Nature-based Tools and Guides

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.

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.

Ulva cultivation has great potential as an aquaculture-based climate solution. It can improve coastal livelihoods, enhance food security, and build circular economies. For Southeast Asia in particular, the opportunity to lead in algal decarbonization could position the region as both a climate nature-based innovator and economic beneficiary.

The rice-shrimp farming system presents a viable solution to the growing climate change complexities facing Vietnam’s Mekong Delta (VMD) through rotating rice and shrimp crops during the dry and rainy seasons and by taking advantage of each crop’s leftovers to produce organic products.

LCA can be used in aquaculture, to quantify environmental impacts (e.g. global warming, eutrophication) and identify environmental “hot spots” (key processes or activities that contribute most significantly to the overall environmental impacts).