CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems - FISH

Overview: FP2 - Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries

FP1 - PMT


Leader Philippa Jane Cohen, WorldFish - WF

Team members: 44
Partner organizations: 9

Budget 2025
USD : 0

Clusters: 3

  Description
    
The objective of FP2 is to secure and enhance the contribution SSF make to poverty reduction and food security by addressing these three barriers in select geographies. FP2 is motivated by the vision that strategic investments in fisheries research, embedded in partnerships and networks, and building on the strengths of fishing communities, will sustain and improve the contributions fisheries make to the wellbeing and social-ecological resilience of fishery systems. We view SSF from a systems perspective (Sayer and Campbell 2004; Andrew et al. 2007; Pomeroy and Andrew 2011) and pursue research through a combination of global and regional analysis and place-based research in strategic coastal and inland geographies.
  Key Documents
    
  Atlas
    
   Key Results
    

Blog Outcome Impact Case Report Policy

Innovations

The Nijhum Dwip Management Plan led by WorldFish now approved by the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MoFL) in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2021

Research and application of co-management strategies enhance the biodiversity conservation while providing socio-economic resilience for over 46,486 fishers in Bangladesh

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 technical collaboration between WorldFish and the Government of Odisha (India) reaches nutrition and income goals for over 151,407 people

Reporting year: 2021

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

Fish Cage Culture in Reservoirs promoted by the Government of Odisha, India, following the technical guidance of WorldFish now taken up by private sector actors

Reporting year: 2021

More than 300 households living in coastal fisheries communities are improving their livelihoods conditions thanks to complementary participatory aquatic foods farming in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2020

Malawi Department of Fisheries incorporates solar tent dryers technology into an African Development Bank investment in Malawi.

Reporting year: 2020

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

Reporting year: 2020

Research on hilsa conservation incentives provides strong evidence to the government of Myanmar in designing a fisheries management mechanism that promotes livelihood diversification and resilience

Reporting year: 2020

Research and application of co-management strategies enhance the contribution to sustainable increase in hilsa production while providing socio-economic resilience for over 34,676 fishers in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2020

The Fisherwomen Community Savings Groups (CSGs) in Bangladesh empower 6,000 poor women by providing visible economic and social benefits while conserving the biodiversity

Reporting year: 2020

15,690 km2 marine area under improved fisheries management through the real-time monitoring of fishing activities and catch in Timor-Leste

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

Illuminating Hidden Harvests study led by FAO, Duke University and WorldFish, in the spotlight at Committee on Fisheries (COFI) virtual dialogues

Reporting year: 2020

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

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

World-first monitoring system for small-scale fisheries adopted by the Timor-Leste government at a national scale

Reporting year: 2020

USD 7.92 Million grant by the World Bank allocated to promote the aquaculture development in the State of Odisha, India, based on FISH research and technical inputs

Reporting year: 2020

WorldFish strengthens its support to the Government of Myanmar in the design and implementation of an incentive-based hilsa management in the Ayeyarwady Region

Reporting year: 2020

Contribution to the development of an inclusive, evidence-based National Fisheries Strategy for Timor-Leste that sets the direction for future fisheries and food security investments

Reporting year: 2020

Revision of the legal regime for the management and regulation of fisheries in Timor-Leste

Reporting year: 2020

FISH research activities in India provide robust foundations for the Government of Odisha in securing a funding USD 25.41 million towards unleashing the Blue Revolution

Reporting year: 2020

WorldFish assisted the Government of Odisha (India) in preparing the policy guidelines for taking up of Fish Cage Cultures in Reservoirs by private sector actors

Reporting year: 2020

Operationalization of the Hilsa Conservation and Development Fund (HCDF) in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2020

Allowable mesh size for hilsa gillnets recommendations now officialized by the Government of Bangladesh through a gazette notification

Reporting year: 2020

WorldFish supports the Government of Bangladesh to develop a national management plan as a legal instrument for the management of Nijhum Dwip Marine Protected Area

Reporting year: 2020

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning platform adopted within and outside CGIAR

Reporting year: 2020

Substituting outdated methods: Adoption of contemporary technology for Small Scale Aquaculture (SSA) in Myanmar

Publication year: 2020

LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR FISHERIES RESEARCH IN MYANMAR

Publication year: 2020

The declaration of Nijhum Dwip Marine Protected Area (MPA) to generate more sustainable fishing and livelihoods while protecting the marine biodiversity in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Development of Dried Small Pelagic Standards to be adopted by the Malawi Bureau of Standards

Reporting year: 2019

Decentralized Fisheries Law and regulations to establish and legalize community fishery associations in Myanmar

Reporting year: 2019

Proposition of fiscal reforms to allow more sustainable and inclusive hilsa fisheries management in Myanmar

Reporting year: 2019

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

Reporting year: 2019

FISH research provides support to develop the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy in Uganda.

Reporting year: 2019

Standard harmonization for fish products in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region

Reporting year: 2019

Inclusion of fish within commodities covered by the One Stop Border Post at Busia to facilitate cross-border fish-trade between Kenya and Uganda

Reporting year: 2019

Allowable mesh size for hilsa gillnets determined and recommended in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Hilsa Conservation and Development Fund (HCDF) created and operational guideline formulated in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Investment to enable implementation of the COMESA Green Pass for fish on the Zambia-Zimbabwe-Mozambique border.

Reporting year: 2019

Revision of the legal regime for the management and regulation of fisheries in Timor-Leste

Reporting year: 2019

Contribution of FISH research to global fishery policy through the FAO International Symposium on "Fisheries Sustainability: strengthening the science policy nexus"

Reporting year: 2019

Inclusive, evidence-based development of a National Fisheries Strategy for Timor-Leste that sets the direction for future fisheries and food security investments.

Reporting year: 2019

WorldFish contributed to the declaration of the Nijhum Dwip Marine Protected Area (MPA) in Bangladesh through S.R.O. No.211-Law/2019

Reporting year: 2019

National adoption of small-scale fisheries data system in Timor-Leste

Reporting year: 2019

Fiscal reform: Design of a incentive-based system of hilsa fisheries management in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta for more sustainable and inclusive fisheries

Reporting year: 2019

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

Reporting year: 2019

Hilsa Production and Fishers’ Income Increased due to co-management strategies aimed to enhance the socio-economic resilience of fishing communities in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Community Savings Schemes Financially Empower Coastal Fisher Women in Bangladesh

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

Inclusive, evidence-based development of a National Fisheries Strategy for Timor-Leste that sets the direction for future fisheries and food security investments.

Reporting year: 2018

Feeding children's futures in rural Cambodia

Reporting year: 2018

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

Reporting year: 2018

Inclusive, evidence-based development of a National Fisheries Strategy for Timor-Leste that sets the direction for future fisheries and food security investments.

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

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

Reporting year: 2020

Model resilient fishing village: an approach of livelihood transformation of fishery communities in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2020

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

Reporting year: 2020

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

Reporting year: 2020

Big data technology and system (PeskAAS) to improve small-scale fisheries management in Timor Leste

Reporting year: 2020

Methodological innovation for ‘Illuminating Hidden Harvest’ of small-scale fisheries

Reporting year: 2020

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

Reporting year: 2020

Community-based green mussel production system in Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh)

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

Fish powder for new livelihood opportunities for women in Timor-Leste

Reporting year: 2020

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

Reporting year: 2019

Big data technology and system (PeskAAS) to improve small-scale fisheries management in Timor Leste

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

Solar-social innovations to reduce waste and loss, increase incomes and improve equity in capture fisheries systems

Reporting year: 2019

Gangetic Hilsa ecotypes/races and its return to natal river for spawning discovered by genetic analysis

Reporting year: 2019

Coral Triangle (CT) Atlas database portal built upon open source geospatial solutions to enable its sustainability

Reporting year: 2019

Gender-inclusive sustainable livelihood diagnostic tool

Reporting year: 2019

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

Reporting year: 2019

Nearshore fish aggregating devices (FADs) for food and nutrition security and distributive justice in Timor-Leste

Reporting year: 2019

Smartphone-based Citizen Science Approach for Improved Fish Catch Monitoring in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Gender-sensitive financing mechanism for the fisheries sector in Malawi

Reporting year: 2019

Boneless Hilsa products (Hilsa soup, Hilsa noodles and Hilsa minced cubes) developed for Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

Community Fish Guards (CFGs) enhanced compliance in coastal biodiversity conservation in Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2019

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

Reporting year: 2019

Four scaling approaches for community-based, co-management for coastal fisheries in Solomon Islands

Reporting year: 2019

Methodological innovation for ‘Illuminating Hidden Harvest’ of small-scale fisheries

Reporting year: 2019

Predictive analytical and data tools enabling nutrition-sensitive management of fisheries

Reporting year: 2019

Gender inclusive methodologies for co-management of fisheries

Reporting year: 2019

Hilsa fisheries co-management and livelihood buffering strategies

Reporting year: 2018

Methodological innovation for ‘Illuminating Hidden Harvest’ of small-scale fisheries

Reporting year: 2018

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

Reporting year: 2018

Solar-social innovations to reduce waste and loss, increase incomes and improve equity in capture fisheries systems

Reporting year: 2018

A co-management strategy for Lake Fisheries

Reporting year: 2018

A framework for assessing and building adaptive capacity to climate change in small-scale fisheries communities

Reporting year: 2018
  Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs)/Sub-IDOs
    
IDO
  • Sub-IDO
      Indicators

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1.3-Increased incomes and employment
1.4-Increased productivity
2.1-Improved diets for poor and vulnerable people
3.2-Enhanced benefit from ecosystem goods and services.
3.3-More sustainably managed agro-ecosystems
A.1-Mitigation and adaption achieved
B.1-Equity and inclusion achieved
C.1-Enabling environment improved
  Clusters
    
Code Cluster Name Leader Co-leader View
FP2-1 Resilient coastal fisheries Philippa Jane Cohen Alexander Tilley
FP2-2 Fish in multifunctional landscapes Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu Mark Dubois
FP2-3 Fish in regional food systems Fiona Simmance Philippa Jane Cohen
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