Aquaculture and poverty alleviation: II. cage culture in coastal waters of Vietnam

摘要

This is the second of two articles that assess the potential of cage culture for the alleviation of poverty in some of the world's poorest countries. The first article, which appeared in the last issue of World Aquaculture magazine (March 2001), described freshwater activities in Bangladesh. This second article describes developments in the coastal waters of Vietnam. The approaches in the two countries were different. In Bangladesh cage culture was developed specifically as a poverty alleviation tool in association with local NGOs and the help of supporting research. The project in Vietnam was less technology focused, and sought to understand the causes of poverty and the needs, resources and capacity of poor people, using rapid and participatory rural appraisal techniques. Existing marine cage culture technologies were then compared with a range of possible alternatives in terms of their suitability for poverty alleviation.