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General information
| Innovation ID | 381 |
| Version ID | 93 |
| Innovation Title | Solar-social innovations to reduce waste and loss, increase incomes and improve equity in capture fisheries systems |
| Innovation description | The use of solar technology, including solar-powered freezers, offers opportunities to reduce value and quality losses experienced in fisheries value chains. When solar technologies are developed through action research and combined with social innovations (particularly gender transformative or gender sensitive approaches), the complementary outcomes ranging from increased gender equity, reduction of fish quality loss and increased likelihood of sustainability. |
| Reporting Staff | Hampus Eriksson (WF) |
| Year (Reporting) | 2019 |
| Reporting status | Approved |
| Innovation Type | Production systems and Management practices |
Stage reached
| Stage of Innovation | Stage 2: successful piloting |
| Year (Stage) | 2019 |
| Stage Description | In the Solomons, after a year, 487 people had used the freezers. Nearly 1000 kg of fish had been stored and the women’s freezer committees had saved over USD 3000. The piloting has been successful and the innovation is ready for being scaled up and impacts evaluated. |
| Has a lead organization | yes |
| Lead Organization | WorldFish |
| Top 5 contributors | Australian Center for International Agricultural Research; Stockholm Resilience Centre; The Pacific Community |
Contributions and mapping
| All partners | |
| Main CRP | CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems |
| Flagship project | FP2-Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries |
| Cluster | FP2-1-Resilient coastal fisheries |
| Other CRPs-Flagships-Clusters |
Scope
| Geographic scope | National |
| Regions | |
| Countries | Solomon Islands |
Targeted outcomes
| Main Sub-IDO | Reduce Market Barriers |
| Other Sub-IDO | Increased livelihood opportunities |
| Other Sub-IDO | Technologies that reduce women's labor and energy expenditure developed and disseminated |
Evidences
| Evidences | WorldFish 2019. The cool women of Malaita. [https://worldfish.exposure.co/cool-women-of-malaita] SwedBio Mid-term external review for East Timor and Solomon Islands [ http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/3341] Chiwaula, L. S., Chirwa, G. C., Binauli, L. S., Banda, J., & Nagoli, J. (2018). Gender differences in willingness to pay for capital-intensive agricultural technologies: the case of fish solar tent dryers in Malawi. Agricultural and Food Economics, 6(1), 1. [http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/677] Cole, S. M., McDougall, C., Kaminski, A. M., Kefi, A. S., Chilala, A., & Chisule, G. (2018). Postharvest fish losses and unequal gender relations: drivers of the social-ecological trap in the Barotse Floodplain fishery, Zambia. Ecology & Society, 23(2). [http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/676] |
Linked Elements
| Milestones |
| Outcome Impact Case |
| Policy | Increased recognition and support for sustainable national and sub-national Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) programs by the governments of Kiribati, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/0cb692 |