Handbook on community-based aquaculture for remote rural areas of Southeast Asia

Abstract

The role of freshwater aquaculture in providing means of livelihood and ensuring sustainable food supply to the people particularly in the remote rural areas of Southeast Asia has become very apparent in the situation where fishery resources from the wild are over-exploited and affected by multiple water resource use and pollution. While recognizing the need to balance socio-economic and environmental dimensions in the development of freshwater aquaculture, SEAFDEC initiated a project on the “Promotion of Sustainable Freshwater Aquaculture for Rural Communities” under the Trust Fund Program of the Government of Japan with Lao PDR as the main participating and beneficiary country. As a main activity under the project, a twoweek Joint Regional Training on Community-based Aquaculture for Remote Rural Areas of Southeast Asia was conducted in Lao PDR from 1 to 15 July 2007 in collaboration with the Department of Livestock and Fisheries of Lao PDR, Department of Fisheries of Thailand, the Mekong River Commission-Fisheries Programme, the World Wide Fund for Nature in Lao PDR, and the Asian Institute of Technology. Adopting a Training-of-Trainers approach, the training aimed to promote rural aquaculture in support of rural development for poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihood. [Extract]