Improving livelihoods from productive aquatic farming systems and sustainable fisheries The Fisheries Program brokers research partnerships to improve food security and fishers’ livelihoods through productive aquatic farming systems and sustainable wild-catch fisheries. It aims to improve human health and wellbeing by making food systems and policies more nutrition-sensitive.
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.
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.
Laying a foundation for a functional South-East Asia regional biosecurity network.
Capitalising on local community knowledge and capabilities in PNG is the focus of new research that will build community resilience against growing livelihood threats.
Local farmers in the Pacific are beginning to enjoy increased economic benefits, thanks to research aimed at better understanding agribusiness development in the region.
ACIAR-funded research is supporting agritourism operators in Fiji to create sustainable livelihood opportunities.
This project aims to identify and review options, opportunities and risks for brackish aquaculture in the southern Indus Basin, as a potentially transformative adaptation strategy for areas affected by salinity. Salinity problems in Pakistan’s agriculture have been apparent since 1892, and much work has been done over the years, largely adopting engineering approaches to the problem.
Aquaculture of high-value finfish species, such as groupers, is an industry of increasing importance throughout the Asia-Pacific
