Assessing impacts and progress against development objectives means evaluating much more than agricultural yields or gross margins per hectare. We need new approaches that are fit for purpose to evaluate the multiple and complex benefit streams that modern agricultural research for development seeks to catalyse.

This project aimed to improve the sustainability of a large and well developed, but low technology, ornate spiny lobster grow-out industry in Vietnam, and to address the knowledge gap that is limiting the establishment of a P. ornatus grow-out industry in Australia. With most capture lobster fisheries either fully or more often over-exploited, and in decline, aquaculture appears to be the only long-term way of meeting the insatiable market demand for lobster. View project page

Focussed on the valuation of fish in rural livelihoods, with Cambodia as a case study of the Mekong Basin, this project developed a new methodology combining quantitative economic surveys and qualitative open discussions. The approach covers income, nutrition, labour, health, and resilience, resulting in a detailed, multifactor assessment of the various roles of fish in rural livelihoods.