This project aimed to provide a sustainable basis for the further development of a mariculture sector in PNG and to further build capacity within country partner organisations and coastal communities to support this development. Outputs from this project have had regional uptake and impacts. For example, NIMRF staff participated in the SPC Regional Exchange on Sandfish Aquaculture where they disseminated project-developed sandfish culture procedures, particularly relating to the use of micro-algae as a larval food source.

Laying a foundation for a functional South-East Asia regional biosecurity network.

The mariculture of sea cucumbers, and in particular sandfish (Holothuria scabra), is regarded as an economically attractive enterprise to meet several challenges faced by small-scale coastal fishing communities in the Philippines. Community-based sandfish sea ranching is still in its early stages in the Philippines, but potentially can contribute to livelihoods and help replenish wild stocks.

An evaluation of how and in which contexts Farmers’ Hubs facilitate the dissemination of new products, practices, and services to smallholder farmers and the broader farming community as commercial service providers.

Developing and promoting market-based agroforestry options to improve livelihoods and enhance forest and landscape management in northwest Vietnam.

Exploring opportunities for implementing conservation agriculture and sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems in selected countries of the Pacific.

Establishing and validating a practical, economically viable system for mechanical harvest of mungbean in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan, understanding how it would affect women; traditionally, the main harvesters.

Promoting socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable agricultural intensification in West Bengal and Bangladesh, with an emphasis on water.

Building a network that attracts new members and investors in mungbean research, helping to unlock the potential of mungbean to improve system productivity and livelihoods.

Addressing the threat to wheat production, caused by wheat blast, in Bangladesh and South Asia, by deploying resistant wheat varieties. 

A research project aimed at improving the livelihoods of the people living in the coral atolls of Kiribati and Tuvalu.

Increasing the crop yields of dryland farmers in Aceh to help them make a better living.