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Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling (UOS) Stirling, Scotland The Institute is involved in a variety of research projects developing new approaches to aquatic resource management that are environmentally friendly and focus on improving the livelihoods of poor people in Asia. This work is usually undertaken in partnership with local and other European partners. Current projects are active in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and India. The work is typically carried out using an interdisciplinary approach and geared towards problem-orientated issues. Research that is relevant to local people is favoured and all the research projects involve a range of stakeholders including policy makers and development agencies. Much of the research has been funded by DFID, UK but the group's work has also been supported through other EC funded projects. These projects all involve a variety of stakeholders from the outset in both problem identification and strategic research and concentrate on effective communication with potential end-users using local language reporting and workshops. Principal investigator; Dr David Little is a senior researcher of the Environment and Systems group with over twenty years experience in tropical aquaculture. He has worked extensively with all the Asian partners in various aspects of research and development. He has published widely and worked in post-graduate education and research based in Asia for over two decades. He currently co-ordinates research projects between the University of Stirling and a range of partners in South and Southeast Asia with both DFID and EU funding. Stuart Bunting, co-ordinator of the DFID
NRSP project 'Renewable natural resource-use in livelihoods at the Calcutta
peri-urban interface' has 6 years experience working on collaborative
development projects with local NGO and government partners. Key relevant
experience includes developing a systems perspective of natural resource
management, research on horizontally integrated aquaculture and wastewater
aquaculture, bioeconomic modelling, assessment of ecological footprints
and fieldwork employing livelihoods analysis and participatory research. David Little Stuart Bunting Royal Veterinary and Agricultural
University (KVL) At the Department of Veterinary Microbiology, KVL, the
research group of Anders Dalsgaard is active in a number of research projects
on sanitary and health aspects of management of water resources, in particular
drinking water and wastewater in developing countries. The KVL group to
be involved in the project covers a broad expertise on occurrence and
importance of pathogens in aquatic environments and foods, water microbiology
and quality, epidemiology, and risk assessment. The KVL partner is responsible
for the planning and implementation of WP 2 and WP5 in close collaboration
with the national partners. Anders Dalsgaard has more than 10 years experience in SE Asia working on water, sanitation and health, mainly in Thailand and Vietnam. In 1996, he carried out an exploratory study on public health aspects of the reuse of wastewater in aquaculture in Vietnam for AIT in Bangkok, a study that has been important for the preparation and design of WPs 2 and 5. This study was carried out with UAF, RIA 1, and NIHE. The group of Anders Dalsgaard has published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and has an extensive international network. Also, the newly established FAO/WHO Collaborating Center on Food-borne Parasitic Zoonoses at the Department of Veterinary Microbiology, KVL will provide input to the PAPUSSA project, in particular on trematode parasites. The Post-doc position will be taken up by Dr. Peter K. Jensen, who recently got his Ph.D. as described above on studies of water quality and health in Pakistan Anders Dalsgaard National Institute of Health and
Epidemiology (NIHE) The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE) is a leading scientific research institute committed to health research in Vietnam. As a national institute, NIHE can conduct research all over the country through its provincial Centers of Preventive Medicine. The Enteric Pathogens Division at the Department of Microbiology is headed by Associate Professor Phung Dac Cam and currently consists of four medical doctors, two biologists, five Ph.D. students, and two laboratory technicians. Research focuses on occurrence and importance of pathogenic bacteria and parasites causing gastro-intestinal diseases and include areas within bacteriology, parasitology, immunology and epidemiology. Recently, the Department has increased its activities within water, sanitation and health. NIHE is the local project responsible in the research capacity building project entitled Sanitary Aspects of Drinking Water and Wastewater Reuse in Vietnam funded by DANIDA. Both MSc and PhD students in this project will do part of their research in the PAPUSSA project (WPs 2 and 5) and will receive training at KVL (partner 2) in Denmark through sandwich training programs. Expenses for M.Sc. and Ph.D. fellowships will be covered by the DANIDA-funded project. In PAPUSSA, NIHE will together with KVL be responsible for planning, design and implementation of WPs 2 and 5 in northern and southern Vietnam, but NIHE will also provide substantial inputs to the planning and implementation of the two WPs in Thailand and Cambodia. Other relevant projects at NIHE include a project investigating the occurrence of protozoan parasites in drinking water in Hanoi, which is funded by France, and the participation of NIHE in the project on wastewater irrigation in agriculture, which is headed by IWMI with participation by KVL. Thus, NIHE is very familiar with the wastewater-fed aquatic production systems in Vietnam, in particular the systems in the Thanh Tri district. Phung Dac Cam has for more than 10 years been carrying out research activities in collaboration with partners from Europe, the United States and elsewhere. He has paid extended research visits to laboratories in Denmark, Sweden, France and the United States. Through this work he has established a wide institutional network internationally as well as in Vietnam. The group of Phung Dac Cam has published more than 45 papers of which 18 have been in peer-reviewed international journals. If the proposal is accepted, Ph.D. and M.Sc. students and technicians in the active research environments of Phung Dac Cam, including the students mentioned from the DANIDA research capacity building project, will participate in the project. When necessary, NIHE may take in expertise from its other Departments, e.g. the Department of Epidemiology. Phung Dac Cam University
of Durham (UD) The Department of Geography at the University of Durham is one of the UK's leading geography departments with the top (5*) research rating and around 45 academic members of staff. The Department has attracted substantial research grants not only from the EU but also from (among others) the UK's Department of International Development (DFID), the ESRC, ICRISAT, Oxfam, the Nuffield Foundation, the Royal Society, FAO/World Bank, and the British Council. The Department has maintained a strong interest and commitment to research in the developing world much of which is co-ordinated through the Centre for Overseas Research and Development (CORD) and the Development Studies Research Group (DSG). The members of the DSG share a commitment to understanding patterns and processes of change in poorer countries, primarily through applied field research using participatory methods with substantial local collaboration and long-term engagement with people and places. They have a common concern for inequality (broadly defined) and for the pressures of progress, and how these pressures are manifested, analysed and ameliorated. Regionally research encompasses all the major regions of the poorer world. Dr Jonathan Rigg is a
Reader in the Department of Geography and has been working on issues of
rural and agricultural development for more than 20 years, largely in
Southeast Asia. He has field experience in Thailand, Laos and Indonesia
and an international reputation for his work on rural change and agrarian
transitions. Inputs into WPs 1, 4 and 7 in particular will ensure that
the social and institutional analysis is high quality and that technical
and production aspects are adequately informed by the context. Research Institute for Aquaculture
1 (RIA 1) Research Institute for Aquaculture 1 was founded in 1963 with its head office in Hanoi and several experimental stations located throughout the northern provinces of Vietnam. RIA 1 has expanded to become one of the largest institutes researching aquaculture in the country. There are five research departments: fish genetics, freshwater aquaculture systems, coastal aquaculture, aquaculture environment and socioeconomic studies. The institute has over 250 staff with various experiences/expertise related to aquaculture research and development. RIA 1 has three major activities: research, education and extension of aquaculture. A range of aquaculture research has been undertaking by RIA 1 toward aquaculture development in both inland and coastal areas in Vietnam. Research at RIA 1 includes genetic improvement, induced breeding of fish and shellfish, development of various systems of aquaculture and investigation into socioeconomic aspects of aquaculture activities. The institute has successfully developed techniques of induced breeding for a number of commonly cultured species and assisted in establishing productive hatcheries for fish and shrimp. Quality broodstock for several species have been produced through genetic improvement and selective breeding programmes. RIA 1 has experiences in developing sustainable systems of aquaculture in earthern ponds and cages suited to varying geographic and socioeconomic conditions. Furthermore, RIA 1 has undertaken a variety of research related to peri-urban aquaculture, particularly in Thanh Tri (Hanoi), aspects investigated include the technical and socio-economic aspects of the systems, potential approaches for improvement and water and fish quality. Dr. Pham Anh Tuan, Deputy Director, RIA 1, will coordinate inputs to WP 3 and 6 and has expertise in aquaculture R&D, project design and management, development of aquaculture techniques suited to varying geographic and socioeconomic conditions, socioeconomic impact of aquaculture extension and development, aquaculture extension and development as a component of integrated rural development.
University of Agriculture and Forestry
(UAF) The Faculty of Fisheries, UAF, was set up to train BSc students in three major disciplines namely aquaculture, aquatic resources management and aquatic processing technology. The faculty has three departments (fisheries biology, freshwater aquaculture and coastal aquaculture) with 26 staff members including 2 PhD, 15 MSc. Holders and 9 technicians. Besides training students in aquaculture and fisheries, the faculty has carried out research and extension service for the public and private sector in southeast Vietnam. The faculty has actively conducted the following research:
Dr. Le Thanh Hung, senior scientist of the faculty, specializes in aquaculture systems, fish nutrition and feeding. He had 20-year experiences in aquaculture systems and has spent several years studying the sewage-fed aquaculture systems around Ho Chi Minh City.
Royal University of Agricultural
(RUA) RUA was originally founded as The Royal University of Agronomy Sciences (URSA) in 1964 during the Prince Norodom Sihanouk regime as one of the 9 national universities established as parts of the development plan for higher education in Cambodia. Statistically, 200 students in different fields of agriculture graduated from the University from 1965-1975. During the Pol Pot era, the University was completely closed, being converted into an ammunition factory. During this dark period, a lot of infrastructure facilities including buildings, equipment, laboratories, electricity and water supply systems, libraries and others were seriously damaged or completely destroyed. During the Soviet era (1980-1990) the university mainly offered short course training programs ranging from 2 to 6 months before resumption of degree-level training as the Institute of Agricultural Technology (IAT) in 1984 in general agriculture, animal production and health, agricultural machinery, forestry and fisheries. It should be mentioned that Russian lecturers designed the academic program and the courses were also offered in Russian. After the withdrawal of the Soviet Union in 1990 IAT faced a lot of problems, especially the replacement of the teachers. With the aim of expanding agricultural education in Cambodia, IAT was officially re-named as the Royal University of Agriculture (RUA) on 22 February 1994. On 27 December 1999, the University was firstly declared to be a public autonomous institution, supervised by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The University has five salient missions:
Key personnel are Mr Chhouk Borin and Mr Seng Saphal
of the Faculty of Fisheries. The Faculty are having increasing experience
in the diagnosis of real researchable issues in collaboration with a DANIDA-funded
grant to support capacity building. Several teaching faculty members now
have post-graduate degrees from Australia and AIT in which they have experienced
research on practical issues. A core team now exists that can undertake
household level monitoring of social and technical nature. Institutional
capacity still remains to be strengthened and the faculty members are
viewing this project as a mechanism for gaining experience and building
new partnerships. The goals and objectives of this Faculty are to offer
educational opportunities to learn and study how to produce, process,
utilize, control and manage aquatic resources. Its research mission is
to conduct research activities in aquaculture production and marketing,
aquatic ecology, nutrition, genetics and breeding, physiology, diseases,
water quality, management of fish population in large and small impoundments
and recreational fisheries. Kasetsart University (KU) The Faculty of Fisheries was established as one of the first at Kasetsart University in February 1943. It offers a four year program of at least 135 credit-hours leading to the Bachelor's degree of science in Fisheries, majoring in department as follows: Aquaculture, Fishery biology, Fishery Management, fishery Products and Marine Science. The Master of Science in Fisheries Science, Aquaculture, Fishery Management, Fishery Products and Marine Science are conferred upon students who have completed the requirement of their designated programs. The Faculties of Fisheries has 149 staff members including 25 PhD., 37 M.Sc. and 20 technicians. Besides teaching students in the field of aquaculture and fisheries, the faculty staff have also carried out research and international training courses in different areas. The department has well equipped labs and can employ staff of a temporary basis for research projects. The main research foci include, development of integrated strategies to recycle discharge water treatment systems, development of aquaculture technology to increase production both in quantity and quality, management and conservation of aquatic resources and environmental impact assessment in natural water bodies, management of fishery resource, fishery socio-economics, marketing and fishery policy and development of aquatic animal feed technology. Dr. Ruangvit Yoonpundh, Lecturer of the faculty, specialized in aquaculture systems, water quality and fish breeding. He has 10-year experience in aquaculture systems and spent several years studying the effects of urbanisation on fish culture in the Central plains of Thailand. He subsequently published some of this work as a PhD. Dr. Varaunthat Dulyapurk,
(Phd., University of Illinois) specialized in environmental and natural
resource economics. Kasetsart University (KU) staff:
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