Farmers and fishponds in South East Asia: let the fish talk about the water

Ruerd Ruben

Farmers and fishponds in South East Asia: let the fish talk about the water

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Ruerd Ruben

Ruerd Ruben Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN), Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands; r.ruben@maw.ru.nl

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Pages:: 281–292

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086865963_026

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Fish plays an important role in the livelihood strategies of rural households in Southeast Asia, both as a source of protein and as a component of family income. In response to the reduced availability of natural capture fisheries, integration of fishponds into agriculture-based systems is frequently considered as a feasible alternative. Notwithstanding the increasing availability of knowledge regarding appropriate technological regimes for integrated agriculture-aquaculture management, farmers appear to be rather reluctant towards such resource use intensification. This is explained by the simultaneous adjustments in external market conditions and institutional regimes that make fishponds more suitable as a defensive risk management strategy, but far less attractive as a pathway towards rural modernisation and poverty alleviation.

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Fishponds in farming systems

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Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 30 Oct 2007

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