expanding Sustainable Aquaculture to

help meet MDGs

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aquaculture

• one of the most innovative and rapidly growing food sectors

– technical developments

– market opportunities

– investment

• majority of aquatic foods

– food security

• provides opportunities for millions

– 120 million directly dependent upon aquaculture

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aquaculture and economic growth

but …

• can production meet growth in demand?

– rate of aquaculture growth slowing

• impacts of expansion, intensification and globalization

– makes unsustainable demands on the environment

– perpetuates/aggravates inequity and social exclusion

• can the poor benefit from engaging in aquaculture production?

– susceptible to climate change, increasing vulnerability

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our Mission and Development Challenge for

Sustainable Aquaculture

our Mission

• to reduce poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture

• focus our work to maximize the impact of aquaculture on the MDGs

• this means specifying

– our research focal areas

– where in the world we will be active

– who we will partner with

• … and what we will not do

our Development Challenge

Sustainable Aquaculture

• provides food, nutrition and economic opportunity for those who most need it

• uses ecosystem services wisely and efficiently, avoiding the accumulation of environmental problems for the future

• is integrated into national economies in ways that maximize its development impact

Sustainable Aquaculture

• provides food, nutrition and economic opportunity for those who most need it

• uses ecosystem services wisely and efficiently, avoiding the accumulation of environmental problems for the future

• is integrated into national economies in ways that maximize its development impact

Aquaculture realizes its full potential to deliver sustainable development goals for income, food security nutrition , health and gender equity.

Strengthened input an output markets

Increased fish production

Increased profitability

Improved health and nutrition through fish consumption

Strengthened rural and peri-urban economies

Improved and resilient livelihoods through aquaculture development

Increased incomes and employment from fish farming

Increased number of aquaculture based enterprises

Improved and equitable access to fish to eat.

Improved access to market and trade information

Improved supply-chain and marketing infrastructure

Increased security and equity of access to land and water

Effective and efficient producer or marketing organizations and institutions

Improved access to financial services

Improved policy and regulatory environment

Increased value added processing and improved compliance with quality standards

Improved management of land and water.

Improved business, managerial and technical skills

Appropriate technologies adopted

Improved access to high quality and sustainably produced feeds

Improved and environmentally responsible access to quality seed

Increase investment in supply chain, marketing and communication infrastructure

Provide training and support to regulatory agencies

Develop and communicate policy alternatives and regulatory arrangements that support them

Support and facilitate national and regional aquaculture fora and networks

Strengthen mechanisms for adaptive learning and knowledge exchange

Provide technical support to and invest in breeding programs and dissemination systems

Provide technical support to feed producers to improve quality and product range

Markets and Trade

Multi-level and multi-sectoral governance

Aquaculture technologies and innovation systems

Aquaculture and Environment

Support organizations and institutions that increase access of the poor to markets

Key areas to improve the knowledge base

Entry points for advice, support and investment

Impact areas for assessment

Outcomes areas for monitoring

Ecosystem services maintained at acceptable levels

Sustained ecosystem services

Increased adaptive capacity

Reduced vulnerability of aquaculture systems to external drivers

Improved responses to changing circumstances

Support market instruments to improve aquaculture governance

Global Drivers of Change

Roadmap for our Sustainable Aquaculture Development ChallengeRoadmap for our Sustainable Aquaculture Development Challenge

Development Challenges and MTPs

MTP project content

• each project comprises sub-projects

SustainableAquaculture

Resilient Small-Scale

Fisheries

ProductiveTechnolog

ies

Environment

Governance

GlobalDrivers

ResilienceIn

Practice

MarketsAnd

Trade

cross-cutting issues • gender

• impact

how we are organized

• three Disciplines - Natural Resources Management (NRM); Policy, Economics and Social Sciences (PESS); Aquaculture (AQ)

• three Disciplines - Natural Resources Management (NRM); Policy, Economics and Social Sciences (PESS); Aquaculture (AQ)

our MTP

MTP 4 – sustainable aquaculture technologies

Goal

Increased productivity, resilience and development impact of smallholder and SME aquaculture-based livelihoods

SustainableAquaculture

Resilient Small-Scale

Fisheries

ProductiveTechnologi

es

Environment

Governance

GlobalDrivers

ResilienceIn

Practice

MarketsAnd

Trade

Objectives

MTP 5 – aquaculture and the environmentGoal

Adoption of aquaculture that benefits the poor and makes better use of ecological services without unacceptably compromising ecosystem structure and function

SustainableAquaculture

Resilient Small-Scale

Fisheries

ProductiveTechnologi

es

Environment

Governance

GlobalDrivers

ResilienceIn

Practice

MarketsAnd

Trade

Objectives

in practice ….

• working in some 15 countries

• working with dozens of partners (ARIs, NARs, NGOs)

• participating in some 25 research/ development projects

• impacting on household incomes, nutrition,

• building capacity

• producing dozens of IPGs

– research papers, policy briefs, genetically improved strains

some key challenges

balance our research portfolio

• three drivers of project portfolio recognized

– funding opportunities at country level

– strategic choices in the develop-ment of the sub-sector at country level

– defining a global research agenda for aquaculture in developing countries

• strategic drivers should play a greater role

• how to secure research funds?

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determine our target groups

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SMEs

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our proposed future focuspresent focus

indirectIAA

• to maximize impacts of Sustainable Aquaculture on the poor we must focus on less poor producers

• chronic poor are best helped through facilitating engagement in other parts of the market chain

• … but we need a globally coordinated research agenda to test this

develop an extension research agenda

• we need a globally integrated research agenda that determines how to most effectively - and cost effectively – scale out sustainable, productive aquaculture technologies in different contexts

– incl. mechanisms to multiply and disseminate genetically improved strains

… and finally

• aquaculture has the potential to sustainably meet the gap between supply and demand for aquatic foods

• at the same time, it has the potential to lift substantial numbers of poor people out of poverty

• needs clearly articulated research agenda and support to implement it