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PAPUSSA Annual Report 2005

 

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>   view executive summary
>   view recommendations

Annexes
>   Annex 1 Initial results and Health protocols KVL/NIHE - view here
>   Annex 2: RIA1, UAF, RUA, KU: Production in Aquatic Peri-urban Systems in South    East Asia - view here
>   Annex 3: Initial Health and environmental study results and comparative analysis from the Household Baseline and Monitoring Survey - view here

Feeding cities - Dong My, a peri-urban community in Hanoi, Vietnam, involved in the cultivation of fish

    
  • Nguyen Thi Hanh Tien, Pham Anh Tuan and Nguyen Thi Dieu Phuong - Research Institute for Aquaculture No.1, Viet Nam
  • William Leschen, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, UK

Previously published in the Institute Of Aquaculture publication Aquaculture News

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Peri-Urban Aquatic Workshop, Dhaka, Bangladesh
22-23rd November 2005

A 2 day Workshop on Peri-urban Aquatic Production and Improvement of the Livelihoods of the urban poor in SE Asia was held between 22-23rd November 2005 in Dhaka Bangladesh. A wide range of stakeholders attended from Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia with the main objective of the workshop being to set up a Platform for communication and information exchange towards the sustainable development of peri-urban aquaculture in the region. Papussa representatives from Bangkok, HCMC, Hanoi and Phnom Penh gave presentations disseminating their findings from the project, whilst a 25 minute Papussa video entitled “ The Hidden Harvest” which describes the considerable importance of edible aquatic plants cultivation in the four cities was also shown. The workshop was funded through the Aquaculture Fish and Genetics Research Programme Stirling (DFID).    

                                                         Workshop presentations:
> view workshop minutes                        > Aquatic Production systems in peri-urban of Ho Chi Minh City  
> view photographs                               > An overview of the current status of peri-urban aquatic food production
> Dhaka, Nov 22 (BDNEWS article)              systems in Phnom Penh
> Dhaka, Nov 23 (BDNEWS article)           > Livelihood development of urban poor through urban and peri-urban
                                                            aquaculture
                                                         > Peri-urban aquaculture: constraints and potentials

DVD : A Hidden Harvest – Growing Edible Aquatic Plants in 4 SE Asian Cities

    The Papussa project has produced this 25 minute video which describes the considerable impact, value and importance of growing edible aquatic plants in the 4 Papussa study cities. It shows the production cycle from pond/field, through harvesting, processing and marketing to the growing numbers of urban consumers, highlighting the benefits in employment and income generation particularly for lower income peri-urban households whilst also in many cases using and recycling urban waste water as a readily available source of nutrients. Future constraints and increasing pressures from urbanisation are also discussed in relation to the many peri- urban dwellers whose livelihoods are dependent on aquatic plants cultivation.

This DVD is now also available in a Khmer language version.

Copies of the DVD can be obtained by contacting the Forum page of this website stating your background and interest in aquatic plants and peri-urban aquaculture.

Urban Agriculture Magazine - Urban Aquatic Production
No 14 - July 2005

This issue of UA Magazine draws on preliminary research findings from the PAPUSSA project.

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