Growing Fish to Make Money in Africa

Rural development projects target food security and poverty alleviation. In Central Cameroon, a project providing extension of integrated farming technology to rural/subsistence farmers and to periurban/small-scale commercial farmers achieved incre...

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Main Author:	Brummett, Randall
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO MARKETS AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AGRICULTURE AQUACULTURE AQUACULTURE DEVELOPMENT CGIAR COMMERCIAL FARMERS CONFLICT CROP CROP PRODUCTION CROPS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS DROUGHT ECONOMIC GROWTH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES EQUIPMENT EXTENSION EXTENSION AGENTS FARM FARMERS FARMING FARMING COMMUNITIES FARMING SYSTEMS FARMS FIELD WORK FISH FISH AVAILABILITY FISH FARMS FISH PRODUCTION FISHERIES FOOD POLICY FOOD PRODUCTION FOOD SECURITY HIGH INEQUALITY INCOME INCOME GROWTH INCOMES INLAND FISHERIES INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIVELIHOODS MARKETING NATIONAL POVERTY NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH POOR INFRASTRUCTURE POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY REDUCTION PRODUCE PRODUCTION SYSTEM PRODUCTION SYSTEMS PROFITABLE FARMING SYSTEMS RAPID RURAL APPRAISAL RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL BUSINESSES RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL FARMER RURAL FARMERS RURAL POOR SMALL-SCALE FARMERS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL SECURITY SUBSISTENCE SUBSISTENCE FARMERS TARGETING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/11/16199048/growing-fish-make-money-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10427

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Summary:	Rural development projects target food security and poverty alleviation. In Central Cameroon, a project providing extension of integrated farming technology to rural/subsistence farmers and to periurban/small-scale commercial farmers achieved increases in fish pond productivity, number of fish farmers, and net returns from aquaculture. However, gains for commercial farmers were larger and more sustainable, and at less cost, than for subsistence farmers. This smart lesson describes the project and some of the lessons it provided.

Growing Fish to Make Money in Africa

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