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Fish for whom?: Integrating the management of social complexities into technical investments for inclusive, multi-functional irrigation
Type: Journal Article
Irrigation represents a long-standing water sector investment in South East Asia. However, despite the undeni-able benefits of food production, an irrigation/rice-centric strategy is insufficient in a multi-dimensional ...
Fish for whom? Integrating the management of social complexities into technical investments for inclusive, multifunctional irrigation
Type: Brief
Most interventions in the water sector remain technocratic and blind to trade-offs that undermine
overall development outcomes. The relationship between irrigation and inland capture fisheries is
a case in point, as ...
CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems: A synthesis
Type: Brief
The fish agri-food system connects supplies of fish and other aquatic foods through multiple pathways and scales to diverse consumers across the planet and is a key component of the global agri-food systems. Fish and other ...
Advancing research and development outcomes with fish in regional food systems
Type: Brief
Food systems encompass actors and interactions from production to consumption and disposal of food as well as social, economic and environmental outcomes. Food systems frameworks provide a holistic approach for research ...
Enhancing productivity and resilience of water systems by integrating fisheries
Type: Brief
Inland capture fisheries are the primary source of livelihoods and food and nutrition security in many low- and middle-income countries, but are often adversely impacted by irrigation infrastructure.
With over 300 million ...
Rice-fish pathways to sustainable development impact in Cambodia and the Lower Mekong: Report on ACIAR and the WorldFish-IRRI-IWMI symposium and theory of change
Type: Report
Rice and fish are central to the livelihoods and nourishment of the people of Cambodia and of other
nations in the Lower Mekong Region. They are vital to progressing many of the targets of the Sustainable
Development Goals ...
Fish friendly irrigation: Enhancing production, livelihoods and health
Type: Video
Each year, 12 Mt of aquatic foods caught in inland fisheries provide the primary source of animal protein and essential micronutrients for at least 200 million people worldwide. They are vital for livelihoods, human health ...
Rethinking irrigation modernisation: realising multiple objectives through the integration of fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Irrigation has been, and will remain, instrumental in addressing water security (Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6), food insecurity (SDG 2) and poverty (SDG 1) goals. However, the global context in which irrigation ...
Rice-fish Systems – Back to the Future
Type: Blog
Research by World Fish, IWMI and IRRI, some of which is summarized in a newly published journal article, demonstrates that rice-fish systems can make efficient use of increasingly scarce water and land resources and reduce ...