Circle of life:Remote communities are learning to adopt an aquaculture method that is good for them and for the environment

摘要

Give a person a fish, the proverb goes, and they can feed their family for a day. Teach them to fish, and you have fed them for life. US-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) World Neighbors takes the proverb a step further: "Teach that person tofarm fish and you have helped them not only to feed their family, but generate enough income to invest in their future and that of their children."World Neighbors is helping people in locations as diverse as Peru, Haiti and East Africa to develop fish farming on a small scale - and to do it in a way that minimises their initial outlay and the impact on the environment. Its projects are examples ofthe "circular economy" in action that wealthier societies could learn from.