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    Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/4194

    Fish, roots, tubers and bananas: opportunities and constraints for agri-food system integration

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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 root, tuber and banana (RTB) crops integration is scarcely available, despite their worldwide cultural, dietary, and economic importance. This paper, 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 RTB – 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, and food and nutrition security 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.
    • External link to download this item: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2020.1776815
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    • Sustainable aquaculture [1813]
    • Value chains and nutrition [200]
    Date
    • 2020
    Author
    • Atkins, M.
    • Byrd, K.A.
    • Pincus, L.
    • Naziri, D.
    • Agboola, J.O.
    • Yossa, R.
    Author(s) ORCID(s)
    • Kendra A Byrdhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4528-752X
    • Lauren Pincushttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8883-7264
    • Diego Nazirihttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8078-5033
    • Rodrigue Yossahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4792-0173
    Subject(s)
    • nutrition-sensitive intervention; rtb crops; agri-foodsystem; fish feed; integrated agriculture-aquaculture; Multi RTB crops; Fish
    AGROVOC Keywords
    • agriculture; aquaculture; food security; nutrition; food crops; bananas; tubers; food systems; roots; fish
    Type
    • Journal Article
    Publisher
    • Taylor & Francis
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