aquaculture

Please download the final factsheet of ARF-3 project ProFish in Benin, in which the consortium shares its final research findings, confirming that farmers included in the test of the new fish feeds show great interest in the new product developed. »

The Global Challenges Programme project “Sustainable aquaculture to support mangrove forest restoration in Indonesia (PASMI)” held its closing stakeholder workshop on September 19, 2019 at the Diponegoro University (UNDIP) in Indonesia, also to support the related project Demak-Building with Nature (BwN). »

Aquaculture improvement projects (AIPs) have emerged as a novel form of market-based sustainability governance. Mariska Bottema, a researcher in the Global Challenges Programme (GCP) project SUPERSEAS, recently published a paper in Aquaculture that identifies some key challenges that private actors leading AIPs face when trying to address aquaculture risks that reach beyond the farm. »

GCP-2 project “Serious games for sustainable shrimp farming in Vietnam (ALEGAMS)” shows that playing the game gave farmers better understanding of the impact of their decisions linked to risks&opportunities of various farming systems. The ALEGAMS project has now published a factsheet with their final research findings. »

This book provides the authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key aquaculture and hydroponic and other integrated systems, socio-economic and environmental aspects. Aquaponics, which combine aquaculture and vegetable food production offer alternative technology solutions for a world that is increasingly under stress through population growth, urbanisation, water shortages, land and soil degradation, environmental pollution, world hunger and climate change. »

The ARF project “Improving resilience of inland fisher communities in Benin” developed a road map creating productive stakeholder engagement to balance interests of fisher community against quality & sustainability of inland waters. Please download the factsheet with final findings of this Applied Research Fund Call 2 project. »