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    Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/3917

    Fish & Roots, Tubers and Bananas in Agri Food Systems: Opportunities for, and constraints to integrated production, value addition and human consumption

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    • Agri-food system integration has the potential to increase and add value to agricultural production, reduce cost of and dependency on external inputs, generate additional income to farmers, and encourage the diversification of outputs and diets. Agri-food system integrations such as livestock-fish, poultry-fish, crop-livestock and rice-fish farming have been well documented in academic literature. However, information on fish and roots, tubers and banana crop (RTBs) integration is scarcely available, despite their worldwide cultural, dietary and economic importance. This article, which is informed by a narrative literature review and ground-truthing through key informant interviews, documents existing linkages between two agri-food systems—fish and RTBs—and identifies opportunities and challenges for strengthening their integration. We found that recorded instances of fish-RTB integration are limited and predominantly discuss production-related activities. Nevertheless, initial evidence suggests that there are important livelihood-enhancing opportunities as well as environmental, nutrition and food-security related benefits, which need to be considered. These include the potential to improve the nutritional status of vulnerable populations and lower the cost of fish production and thus improve the livelihoods of small-scale fish farmers. Further field-based research is recommended to explore these outcomes in more detail.
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    • Fish_Roots_Tubers_and_Bananas_Presentation_SDGs.pdf (3.098Mb)
    Date
    • 2019
    Author
    • Atkins, M.
    • Agboola, J.O.
    • Byrd, K.A.
    • Naziri, D.
    • Pincus, L.
    • Thilsted, S.
    • Yossa, R.
    Author(s) ORCID(s)
    • Kendra A Byrdhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4528-752X
    • Diego Nazirihttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8078-5033
    • Lauren Pincushttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8883-7264
    • Rodrigue Yossahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4792-0173
    Subject(s)
    • root; banana; root tubers
    AGROVOC Keywords
    • integration; fish
    Type
    • Presentation
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