Regional seminar on aquaculture for Embassies, Norad and fisheries advisers Michael Phillips, WorldFish

WorldFish is a member of the CGIAR

WorldFish Mission and Vision

Mission: To reduce poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture Vision: to be the research partner of choice for delivering fisheries and aquaculture solutions in developing countries

Research foci and impact

Reduce poverty and vulnerability through fisheries and aquaculture.

Improve the lives of 15 million people in priority countries within 6 years, increasing to 50 million by 2022 through scale up and scale out.

Sustainably increase food and nutrition security through fisheries

and aquaculture. Achieve annual production growth rates of over 10% in priority countries, leading to gender equitable increases in per capita consumption by over 20% for 20m poor consumers by 2018 and contributing to reduced micronutrient deficiencies among these populations.

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Focal Area Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Key research question

How will climate change affect fisheries and aquaculture in developing countries and how can adaptive capacity be built?

Improved value chains

How can we improve input and output value chains to increase the development impact of aquaculture and fisheries?

Nutrition and health

How can investments in fisheries and aquaculture best improved human nutrition and health?

Gender and equity

How can strengthening the rights of marginalized fish dependent people reduce inequality and poverty?

Sustainable aquaculture technologies Policies and practice for resilience

How do we increase productivity, ecological resilience and development impact of aquaculture?

What policy and management investments will increase the resilience of small-scale fisheries and increase their contribution to reducing poverty and hunger?

WorldFish Geographic focus

Reform

Old New

15 Independent Centers 1 Consortium Diffuse CGIAR priorities Focus on 15 research programs (CRPs) Recognition of impact Weak partnerships Focus on impact Effective partnerships

CGIAR Research Program 3.7

More Meat Milk and Fish by and for the Poor

CRPs Climate change agriculture and food security

and

Agriculture for nutrition and health

CRP 1.3 - Harnessing the potential of

Aquatic Agricultural Systems

for the poor and vulnerable

IRRI

Aquatic agricultural systems AAS - where annual aquatic production dynamics contributes to household income

Household approach - Improving productivity in AAS

• • Limited diversity of crops and varieties available to poorest farmers Over 75 varieties of rice, wheat and maize + tilapia and carps; but varieties not sufficiently targeted to locations • • • Increased dissemination and uptake of technologies High adoption rates of new practices Reduced gender gap in technology adoption rates • • • Improved incomes Equitable sharing by men and women Increased share for poorest and vulnerable

“CRP 1.3 is a clear example of best practice”

CGIAR Gender Scoping Study

Gender

• • • • • •

“Evidence of commitment to gender analysis in CRP 1.3 is

Reduced gender gaps in:

M&E plans and gender goals that are clearly stated and are

workload for activities access to/share of resources food availability and nutrition health and life expectancy survival rates after disasters

More Meat Milk and Fish by and for the Poor

Approach: Solution-driven R4D to achieve impact

An integrated value-chain approach for focused impact . . .

R4D integrated to transform selected value chains for selected commodities in selected countries.

Inputs & Services Production Processing Marketing Consumers

Value chain development team + research partners

Platform Research Breeds Feeds Health

Program components

Targeting Adaptive Research In country value-chain research and knowledge application Monitoring & Evaluation Process IPG’s (Action Learning) Technology IPG’s

.. target both households and SMEs

• Households – Income – Nutrition • SMEs – Commercial – Value chains – Business development – supplyingurban poor

(1) Targeting

- an example of research on

aquaculture and food security from Cambodia

Partnership • Excellence • Growth

Analyzing future fish scenarios

Cambodia’s future fish

• sectoral analysis • scenario setting for 2030 • map high and low impact pathways • investments needed

Difference in climate change impacts (t CO 2 eq per tonne)  Impacts of catfish and tilapia on climate change can be reduced by 3-4 times through applying technologies and management systems of existing “best performers”… catfish

2008

tilapia

2030

Breakdown of aquaculture production by source

Source Semi-subsistence homestead ponds Commercial semi-intensive ponds Commercial intensive ponds Shrimp & prawn Other Total Quantity (t)

399,389 391,668 395,000 97,746 71,114 1,354,944

% of total

29 29 29 7 5 100

Aquaculture is substituting for declining capture fisheries 1996 2006 Changes in farmed and wild fish consumption among 957 households in 4 districts, 1996-2006 (IFPRI survey data)

(2) Breeding and genetics

Quantitative Genetics – “new” technology in fish Little capacity – government and private sector Tilapia, Carps, Catfish, Freshwater Prawn

(3) Business returns to “project” can be significant, but it takes time

• SMEs and patient capital...

Aceh

2 000 000 1 800 000 1 600 000 1 400 000 1 200 000 1 000 000 800 000 600 000 400 000 200 000 0 2007 revenue from all farmers (USD$2.39m) net profit from all farmers (USD$1.44m) project investments (USD$1.90m) 2008 2009 2010

India

5 100 000 4 800 000 4 500 000 4 200 000 3 900 000 3 600 000 3 300 000 3 000 000 2 700 000 2 400 000 2 100 000 1 800 000 1 500 000 1 200 000 900 000 600 000 300 000 Revenue generated - total $8,884,444 Net profit generated - total $3,524,444 Baseline (2001 survey) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Incubating SMEs…

• Collective arrangements cooperatives, farmer producer companies..

• Collective arrangements allow – Reduce transaction costs and economies of scale – Makes investment easier • Capacity building takes time • Business not project • “Incubation” • Opportunities to build business ecosystem, network and build scale

The future of certification?

• Wider coverage of certification, or alternative management tools needed for the other 90%..

Thankyou