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Climate-smart aquaculture: Evidences and potentials for northern coastal area of Vietnam

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Title Climate-smart aquaculture: Evidences and potentials for northern coastal area of Vietnam
 
Creator Tu Trinh
Nhuong Tran
Quyen Cao
 
Subject climate change
climate-smart agriculture
agriculture
food security
 
Description Coastal aquaculture, particularly brackish water shrimp farming, plays an important role in the
socio-economic development of most coastal communities on the North Central Coast (NCC) of
Vietnam. However, coastal aquaculture in the region is among the activities most affected by
increasing global climate change, which threatens sustainable development of the fisheries
sector, as well as food security of the country. Within the action plan framework for adaptation
and mitigation for climate change in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS),
climate-smart aquaculture (CSA) trials have been conducted in Hoang Phong commune, Thanh
Hoa province in 2015 by WorldFish, the Vietnam Institute of Economics and Planning (VIFEP)
and Thanh Hoa Agriculture Extension Center (TEC). In the farm-level climate-smart aquaculture
trials, tilapia was raised in rotation with tiger shrimp, mud-crab and seaweed in a traditional
extensive aquaculture system. Initial results show that the aqua-smart practice under the CSA
approach is a “triple win” for local aquaculture farmers through: (1) sustainably improving
aquaculture productivity and farming efficiency of the current production system; (2) increasing
adaptive capacity and resilience of coastal aquaculture to climate change; and (3) contributing to
climate change mitigation. However, a number of constraints, such as lack of high-quality fish
seed and feeds, low market uptake for tilapia and uncertainty from extreme climate events,
should be considered in scaling out the aqua-smart practice throughout the region.
 
Date 2016-05-30
2016-06-01T15:02:19Z
2016-06-01T15:02:19Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Trinh T, Tran N, Cao Q. 2016. Climate-Smart Aquaculture: Evidences and Potentials for Northern Coastal Area of Vietnam. CCAFS Working Paper No. 169. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75543
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Language en
 
Relation Working Paper
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security