Benefits from aquaculture for livelihood of producers and global food security are well documented, however, concerns from potential impacts on the environment and human health can put this industry
Socioeconomic status (SES) is a multidimensional concept that involves objective markers, such as income, education, and occupation, along with subjective data, which indicate how people perceive their socioeconomic position. Gaps and the lack of linear relationships in objective SES data have supported the need to include subjective markers. This study evaluates the effect of certain critical predictors on the subjective SES of small-scale aquaculture producers in Central-Southern Chile, addressing a gap in research.
The success of Chilean salmon farming’s early cultivation stages is largely facilitated by access to high-quality water, which is provisioned by watersheds dominated by native forests and defined by high precipitation levels. In recent decades, human activities have increasingly affected both attributes. This study analyzed the risk of climate change in 123 watersheds that supply water to land-based salmon farms in south-central Chile (36.5−43°S).
The diverse aquaculture sector makes important contributions toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)/Agenda 2030, and can increasingly do so in the future. Its important role for food security, nutrition, livelihoods, economies, and cultures is not clearly visible in the Agenda 21 declaration. This may partly reflect the state of development of policies for aquaculture compared with its terrestrial counterpart, agriculture, and possibly also because aquaculture production has historically originated from a few key hotspot regions/countries.
Many international and national programmes seek to promote insurance for disaster risk reduction in developing countries including Ghana. Despite these programmes, the uptake of weather insurance for
Extreme climate variability increasingly threatens many Global South coasts. Storm surges and inundation damage the production, livelihood, and daily life of millions of people who are residing in
Aquaculture is an important alternative for capture fisheries, which have experienced over-exploitation and fish stock degradation. While cage fish farming has widely been practised in Vietnam and
Fishing subsidies that enhance fishing capacity by reducing fishing costs could negatively impact the ecological, economic, and social performances of capture fisheries. This is because harmful
In conservation and sustainable fisheries management understanding the motivations of fisher’s non-compliant behavior and developing effective interventions to promote behavioral change is challenging