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| R7064: Small scale farmer managed aquaculture in engineered water systems: critical design and management approaches |     All images copyright Francis Murray 2001 |
| Purpose The purpose of the project is to identify the constraints to aquaculture being integrated within farmer-managed irrigation systems and to promote effective approaches through which it can be developed and promoted with positive impacts on the livelihoods of poor people. Overview The project focused on two areas of the Sub-Continent that suffer water stress and where aquaculture has little tradition, up-state Karnataka, India and Northwest province Sri Lanka. The research was designed in the context of a world-wide need for improved strategies for multiple use of water resources and an apparent separate development between fish production and irrigation systems. Despite investment in aquaculture there has been little emphasis on developing appropriate methods for poor people living in marginal, rain-fed environments. Preliminary assessment identified that poorer groups are more likely to benefit from improved availability of freshwater fish at both sites. -- -- -- To view the Objectives, Activites, Outcomes and Partners of this project, click the link you want, or use the links at the top of every page. |
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| The Aquaculture and Fish Genetics Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) is managed by the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland. FK9 4LA. UK. Tel: +44 1786 467900 Fax: +44 1786 451462 e-mail: afgrp@stir.ac.uk |