Shrimp farming industry in Vietnam: An aquaculture performance indicators approach

Submitted by Luat Do on
EfD Authors:
Huu-Luat, Do
Thong, Ho Quoc
Eggert, Håkan

This study evaluates the Vietnamese shrimp farming industry through a Triple Bottom Line (TBL) perspective, using the Aquaculture Performance Indicators (API) to assess social, economic, and environmental performance. Over the past 25 years, Vietnamese shrimp farming has grown rapidly and diversified into four systems: Extensive, Semi-intensive, Intensive, and Super-intensive, and data is collected for all these systems.

Peer Reviewed
Agriculture, Fisheries, Policy Design

Poverty and gender perspectives in marine spatial planning: Lessons from Kwale County in coastal Kenya

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on
EfD Authors:
Mulwa, Richard
Turpie, Jane
Ndwiga, Michael
Musembi, Elly

Abstract: Kenya, like many other countries, is increasingly relying on a Blue Economy approach to ensure its sustainable development, an approach founded on the premise of poverty eradication by providing sustainable livelihoods and decent work, supplying food and minerals, generating oxygen, absorbing greenhouse gases, mitigating the impacts of climate change, and serving as highways for sea-based international trade.

Other Publications
Fisheries, Gender

Consumers are willing to pay more for HAB-free mussels

Submitted by Meseret Birhan… on
EfD Authors:
Nie, Zihan
Jiang, Yueting
Jaime Torres, Mónica Marcela
Salazar, César
Thong, Ho Quoc

Key Messages
●    Consumers may avoid consuming mussels if they perceive a high risk of HAB contamination, even under government monitoring.
●    HABs have significant welfare losses for consumers, but policies to ensure food safety in seafood markets can improve social welfare.
●    Perceptions about HABs and mussel attributes play a role in explaining consumer preferences, but the link varies across contexts.

Research Brief
Agriculture, Biodiversity, Fisheries

Transforming China’s Fisheries: A 40-Year Journey toward Sustainable Management (1980–2019)

Submitted by Luat Do on
EfD Authors:
Thang, Do Nam

As the world’s largest producer of fish, China has faced significant challenges in developing its fisheries. Over the past four decades, China has implemented and adjusted multiple regulations and measures to reverse the decline of aquatic resources and achieve sustainable fisheries. This study analyzes the production trends and efforts during the period 1980–2019, highlighting the key features of and structural shifts in China’s fisheries. Our results reveal a significant shift in seafood production from capture to aquaculture and from offshore to inshore waters.

Peer Reviewed
Fisheries
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