CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems - FISH

Overview: FP2-2 - Fish in multifunctional landscapes

FP2-1 - FP2-3


Leader Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu, International Water Management Institute - IWMI
Coleader: Mark Dubois, WorldFish - WF

Team members: 17
Partner organizations: 3

Budget 2025
USD : 0

Activities/Products:  4


  Description
    
Cluster 2 focuses on refinements to ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management and associated innovations for fish production in integrated or alternate production systems. Innovations are developed to account for competing demands and tradeoffs between the different uses of land and water within these landscapes and with a focus on building capacities to adapt to external drivers of change and natural seasonal and inter-annual variability. Under Cluster 2, associated governance reform will be achieved through partnerships (government agencies, donors, development organizations, NGOs, communities) and convening structured dialogue to improve responsiveness of government development planning and decision-making to local needs and innovation potential. Horizontal and vertical uptake of management, technology and institutional models will be achieved through partnership, alongside research that employs, participatory analysis of stakeholder relationships and power dynamics. In this cluster, we undertake research to address how small scale fisheries (SSF) can be enhanced or sustained in multifunctional landscapes that include estuaries, rivers, wetlands, man-made water bodies and rice fields. Natural variability, land-use changes, hydropower development, competition for water resources and the effects of climate change are major drivers in these landscapes - and represent both opportunities and challenges for small scale fisheries. This cluster recognizes that these landscapes need novel governance, ecosystem-based planning and management and enhanced production strategies -particularly where drivers that may be considered ‘external’ to classic definitions of fisheries systems are found.
  Key Documents
    
  Atlas
    
   Key Results
    

Blog Outcome Impact Case Report Policy

Innovations

The adoption of local ingredients in nutritious fish feed increases the productivity and profitability of the fish farm showing great potential for impact to climate mitigation, food and nutrition security

Reporting year: 2021

Sustainable rice-fish management in Cambodia contributes to significant improvement in nutrition and livelihoods for over 365,045 people

Reporting year: 2021

The promotion of integrated farming systems increased rice yields by 18% and nutritious fish for farmers in Myanmar

Reporting year: 2020

Significant nutrition gains on nearly 150,000 people in Cambodia strengthen the validation of community-managed rice field fisheries attracting more investments for scaling

Reporting year: 2020

Community Fish Refuge best practice taken up into Cambodia's 10 year Strategic Plan; scaling up of increased fish production and improved food security

Reporting year: 2020

LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR FISHERIES RESEARCH IN MYANMAR

Publication year: 2020

Inclusion of co-management of community fish refuges (CFRs) into Cambodia’s 10-year Strategic Plan for Fisheries Conservation and Management

Reporting year: 2019

The Government of Myanmar extends the promotion of integrated farming systems to accommodate more fish for smallholder farmers

Reporting year: 2019

How rice field fisheries are netting nutrition gains for over 124,876 people in Cambodia

Reporting year: 2019

Significant advances in the policy dialogue on land-use reform to further assist the Government of Myanmar implement its Agriculture Development strategy

Reporting year: 2019

Governing Myanmar’s Inland Fisheries: towards a more sustainable fish production and inclusive benefit-sharing among fish-dependent communities

Reporting year: 2019

Feeding children's futures in rural Cambodia

Reporting year: 2018

Myanmar Government approved the Agricultural Development Strategy and the 'Naypyitaw Agreement' that enables the spread of nutritious and profitable rice-fish farming practices.

Reporting year: 2018

Contributions to revision of Hilsa Fisheries Management Action Plan, for the Padma-Meghna River ecosystem, Bangladesh.

Reporting year: 2018

Land-use modelling, scenarios and decision-support tools to optimize integrated fish-agri food systems for Myanmar

Reporting year: 2020

Social, political, environmental and technical adjustments for viability of rice-fish systems in Myanmar

Reporting year: 2020

Rice fish production practice typology in South and South-East Asia

Reporting year: 2020

A novel mixed-method approach to climate change vulnerability assessments for fish production systems in Myanmar

Reporting year: 2020

New generation of fish friendly irrigation innovations (sluice gates, irrigation canals, dams) to strengthen the resilience and sustainability and livelihoods of fisheries-dependent communities in Asia and Africa

Reporting year: 2020

Gender-sensitive financing mechanism for the fisheries sector in Malawi

Reporting year: 2019

A novel mixed-method approach to climate change vulnerability assessments for fish production systems in Myanmar

Reporting year: 2019

Land-use modelling, scenarios and decision-support tools to optimize integrated fish-agri food systems

Reporting year: 2019

Social, political, environmental and technical adjustments for viability of rice-fish systems in Myanmar

Reporting year: 2019

Co-management of community fish refuges (CFRs) in multifunctional rice/wetland landscapes to enhance fish production, water security and adaptive capacity to climate change in Cambodia

Reporting year: 2019

Co-management of community fish refuges (CFRs) to enhance fish production, water security and adaptive capacity to climate change

Reporting year: 2018
  Activities/Products
    
Code Activity/Product Name Leader Co-leader Total Outputs Output types View
FP2-2.001 Test and refine governance and ecosystem-based management models for sustaining fisheries in multi-use landscapes Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu Mark Dubois 6
FP2-2.002 Management of tradeoffs between SSF, infrastructure and land use understood Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu Mark Dubois 5
FP2-2.003 Cross-scale governance mechanisms tested and refined to account for impacts of external drivers and competition on SSF Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu Mark Dubois 2
FP2-2.004 SSF functions for food security and poverty alleviation and threats assessed Philippa Jane Cohen 2
  Projects
    
Acronym Project Title Year Section Leader Center Budget Start Date End Date View
  Outcomes and Impact
    
Code Outcomes and Impact Type Indicators View
001 Aquatic systems more sustainably and equitably managed development outcome 1
002 Improved opportunities and performance of fish based livelihoods for men and women development outcome 2
003 Food and nutrition security improved within and through SSF food systems development outcome 3
004 Public sector, development agencies and investment policies enable resilient SSF development outcome 0
005 SSF accounted for in planning and policy for infrastructure development, markets and trade development outcome 0
006 Governance, ecosystem, landscape management and improved production models applied widely, and productivity increased research outcome 0
007 Visibility of SSF functions raised in cross-sectoral donor and public sector policies research outcome 0
008 Increased capacity of national and regional institutions to implement SSF-supportive policies  research outcome 0
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