Gender Training in Aquaculture in Northern Vietnam: A Report

Voeten, Jaap; Ottens, B.J.

doi:10.1080/09718524.1997.11909870

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“…For example, Vietnamese women were seen to improve their self-confidence (perceptual pathway) through gaining knowledge about aquaculture (cognitive pathway) (Voeten and Ottens 1997). In Bangladesh, groups of women who were given access to ponds (material pathway) and knowledge about aquaculture (cognitive pathway) have improved their self-esteem and status in the household (perceptual and relational pathways) (Nathan and Apu 1998).…”

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Women's involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand

Kusakabe¹

2003

Development in Practice

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In Northeast Thailand, women are heavily involved in small-scale aquaculture. However, as aquaculture becomes more intensive, women are in charge of less. Women's decision-making power in aquaculture and in the household is stronger when women have greater material resources and knowledge than their husbands; and the case studies on which the article draws show that what is important is not how much women have, but how much they have in relation to their husbands. The case studies also illustrate that women's gender roles and responsibilities, as well as the social expectations placed upon them, limit what they will gain through aquaculture. In intensive aquaculture in particular, women are expected to invest all their resources in this activity in order to sustain the family enterprise.

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Women's involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand

Kusakabe¹

2003

Development in Practice

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“…In Vietnam's integrated VAC (vuonglaolchuong = garden/pond/ animal husbandry) fish farming, poor women are responsible for most of the regular management activities in ponds. Women, through their contribution to food security and income generation, are allowed to take more decisions in management of VAC aquaculture as a result of the knowledge they acquire through training and practical involvement in management (Voeten and Ottens, 1997). In south-eastern Cambodia, small-scale fish culture also shows a higher rate of success with the participation of women in household ponds.…”

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Women in Small-Scale Aquaculture in North-West Bangladesh

Barman

2001

Gender, Technology and Development

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Fish culture in small ponds, ditches, or rice-field plots has become important to a large number of poor farmers in north-west Bangladesh. In a situation of decreased fish supply from natural resources due to degradation and/or over-exploitation, small-scale aquaculture has been identified as the best alternative to ensure fish supply for household consumption and income generation. However, the involvement of women in this activity is very limited. Social and cultural constraints cause less mobility of women with less involvement in outside income-earning activities. Women are largely involved in unpaid housework and crop production and livestock rearing within their homestead areas. This study shows that there is a great potential for integration of crop-livestock-fish in smallscale aquaculture production with active involvement of women.

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“…One possible explanation for this finding is that aquaculture requires fairly continuous labor input, not to mention the hard labor needed for pond construction and maintenance (Onumah et al 2010). An earlier study by Voeten and Ottens (1997) also showed that in the RRD, men were more involved in the management and operation of aquacultural activities, and thus it is reasonable to argue that men play an important role in improving the efficiency of the fish farm.…”

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Performance of Fish Farms in Vietnam–Does Financial Access Help Improve Their Cost Efficiency?

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IJFS

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For a common small- to medium-sized fish farm in an agricultural-based economy, monitoring costs is very important, since financial constraints are always a problem for these farmers. This will be thus easier if the farmers can get access to external funds. This paper used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to examine the technical efficiency, cost efficiency and allocative efficiency of 639 fish farms in the Red River Delta (RRD) in Vietnam in 2018 to see how fish farmers control their costs and if financial access can really help in this matter. We found that these fish farms were very inefficient, meaning that they did not succeed in monitoring and allocating their costs and resources. Among the factors that could improve their efficiency, we found that developing the rural banking system to provide more financial access for RRD fish farms is an important solution.

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Gender Training in Aquaculture in Northern Vietnam: A Report

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

Women's involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand

Women's involvement in small-scale aquaculture in Northeast Thailand

Women in Small-Scale Aquaculture in North-West Bangladesh

Performance of Fish Farms in Vietnam–Does Financial Access Help Improve Their Cost Efficiency?

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