Maintaining Diversity of Integrated Rice and Fish Production Confers Adaptability of Food Systems to Global Change

Freed, Sarah; Barman, B.K.; Dubois, Mark; Flor, Rica Joy; Funge-Smith, S.; Gregory, Rick; Hadi, Buyung; Halwart, M.; Haque, Mahfuzul; Jagadish, S. V. Krishna; Joffre, Olivier; Karim, Muhammad Rezaul; Kura, Yumiko; McCartney, Matthew; Mondal, Manoranjan K.; Nguyen, Van Kien; Sinclair, F.L.; Stuart, Alexander M.; Tezzo, Xavier; Yadav, Sudhir; Cohen, Philippa J.

doi:10.3389/fsufs.2020.576179

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“…Hicks et al., 2019). Whilst not applying the food systems concept, other scientists have also highlighted the importance of a diversity of aquatic foods to local food and nutrition security; for example, in rice fields of the Lower Mekong Basin (Freed, Barman, et al., 2020), coastal reef flats of Timor‐Leste (Tilley et al., 2020), and the river floodplains of Tanzania, where many aquatic foods are more accessible than terrestrial animal‐source foods, particularly during times of seasonal hunger (Moreau & Garaway, 2018). Nutritional value can also vary between and within species, due to nutritional differences, dietary preferences and consumption behaviour (e.g.…”

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Nudging fisheries and aquaculture research towards food systems

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Food system is a powerful concept for understanding and responding to nutrition and sustainability challenges. Food systems integrate social, economic, environmental and health aspects of food production through to consumption. Aquatic foods are an essential part of food systems providing an accessible source of nutrition for millions of people. Yet, it is unclear to what degree research across diverse disciplines concerning aquatic foods has engaged food systems, and the value this concept has added. We conducted a systematic review of fisheries, aquaculture and aquatic food literature (2017-2019) to determine the following: the characteristics of this research; the food systems components and interrelations with which research engaged; and the insights generated on nutrition, justice, sustainability and climate change. Sixty five of the 88 reviewed articles focussed on production and supply chains, with 23 considering human nutrition. Only 13% of studies examined low-and middle-income countries that are most vulnerable to undernutrition. One third of articles looked beyond finfish to other aquatic foods, which illuminated values of local knowledge systems and diverse foods for nutrition. When aggregated, reviewed articles examined the full range of food system drivers-biophysical and environmental (34%), demographic (24%) and socio-cultural (27%)-but rarely examined interactions between drivers. Future research that examines a diversity of species in diets, system-wide flows of nutrients, trade-offs amongst objectives, and the nutritional needs of vulnerable social groups would be nudging closer to the ambitions of the food systems concept, which is necessary to address the global challenges of equity, nutrition and sustainability. | 35 SIMMANCE Et Al. 42 4.2.1 Relationships between food systems components researched 44 4.3. Emerging challenges for food systems 45 4.4. Nudging towards the concept of food systems 46 4.4.1 Consider a broader set of aquatic food types amidst diverse diets 47 4.4.2 Examine system-wide flows of nutrients and tradeoffs amongst objectives 47 4.4.3 Focus on vulnerable and marginalized social groups 47 5. CONCLUSION 48

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“…Researchers have examined how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice [7] . It also looks at what these projects actually achieve.…”

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Impact of Commercial Floodplain Aquaculture on Common-pool Resource Dependent Community

Nazia

Daizy

2021

Jour. of fish. Sci.

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Aquaculture in pond and floodplain was accelerated in Bangladesh in the 90s as a means of better production and income which was backed by the donor agencies, NGOs, and the government of Bangladesh. The commercial actors are involved in the aquaculture systems due to the availability of production technologies and inputs. As a result, fish production has been gone up but poorer households become marginalized due to the commercialization of the production systems and poor access rights to the common pool resources. This paper aims to explore how the commercialization and privatization of floodplain aquaculture become the cause of the sufferings of the resource-dependent people and biodiversity loss in the rich floodplains. Seasonal floodplains were an important source of livelihood for small-scale fishers (SSF), whose livelihood has been destroyed and affected their overall wellbeing. Influential people hold control of the common pool resources and restricted the access of the SSF to manage the aquaculture. So, a new group of poor has emerged and their sufferings also got worse. Together with growing inequalities, natural resource degradation is creating social vulnerabilities. However, no development initiative will ever be sustainable and entirely effective if the existing socio-ecological setting is not considered. Bangladesh government should take robust attempts to revisit fisheries policies to ensure livelihood resilience of fisheries resource-dependent community by managing the access rights of the common pool resources.

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“…Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Myanmar have been highly dependent on inland fisheries for supporting local livelihoods and food security (Funge-Smith & Bennett 2019). Long-term presence of WorldFish programs in these countries, with collaborators including the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), culminated in a regional synthesis paper highlighting the diversity of fisheries-based production systems that are adapted to local social-ecological conditions and evolving to the changes in climate as well as market demands (Freed et al 2020b). Research on inland fisheries co-management and ecosystem-based enhancement of wild fish populations in the Mekong River and in rice field environments in Cambodia (Fiorella et al 2019, Freed et al 2020a) contributed to the government's new draft Strategic Plan for Fisheries Conservation and Management 2019 -2028.…”

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“…Béné (2010 &2011) described pathways through which fish can contribute to nutritional security at household level, and also compiled emerging evidence that locally available small fish have considerable potential as cost-effective food-based strategies to enhance micronutrient intakes or as a complementary food for undernourished children. WorldFish continued to build evidence at global scale (Hicks et al 2019) and regional scale (Freed et al 2020b), and has collaborated with other CGIAR Research Centers to strengthen integration in crop production systems, animal feed, and nutritional products (Atkins et al 2020) and with the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) on stock enhancement of small indigenous fish species (SIS) (Kura 2019). Further research needs to rigorously assess the role of fish consumption as part of broader diets and health, considering the nutritional qualities and availability to the most vulnerable population.…”

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Fish in Sustainable Food Systems of the 21st Century: Role of WorldFish Research on Food and Nutrition Security, Gender Equity, and Natural Resource Conservation

Yumiko¹,

Kawarazuka

2021

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Fisheries research and development challenges have diversified significantly as we entered the 21 st century. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development demands that agriculture research communities take more holistic approaches towards addressing global issues, such as poverty alleviation, environmental conservation, and food and nutrition security. There remains a growing need for considering both fisheries and fishing communities as part of social-ecological systems. In this paper, we review how over the last two decades WorldFish has framed its research, with an emphasis on small-scale fisheries in low-and middle-income countries, and the contribution Japanese researchers have made in topics relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): sustainable fisheries management and conservation; resource access and benefit-sharing; and food and nutrition security. Research in the past has shown collaborative forms of natural resource governance, social inclusion and gender equity play a critical role in ensuring food production translates to income and livelihoods outcomes, and to food and nutrition security in low-and middle-income country contexts. To fulfill its potential in a wider range of SDGs, future research needs to consider fisheries and aquaculture as an integral component of "food systems", encompassing production systems, their environments, postharvest value chains, and consumer behavior and diets.

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Maintaining Diversity of Integrated Rice and Fish Production Confers Adaptability of Food Systems to Global Change

Cited by 31 publications

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Nudging fisheries and aquaculture research towards food systems

Nudging fisheries and aquaculture research towards food systems

Impact of Commercial Floodplain Aquaculture on Common-pool Resource Dependent Community

Fish in Sustainable Food Systems of the 21st Century: Role of WorldFish Research on Food and Nutrition Security, Gender Equity, and Natural Resource Conservation

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