The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) has announced Aquaculture Improvement Projects in Indonesia, China, and Thailand, with funding from the Walmart Foundation.
The Walmart Foundation is funding the projects.
Shrimp farmers in Indonesia and Thailand and tilapia farmers in China will receive training and knowledge to help them improve their livelihoods and increase collaboration to manage and improve water quality and reduce incidences of disease outbreaks. The Aquaculture Improvement Projects will create a zonal approach to form local management groups for greater sustainability in the fish-farming environment.
The Indonesian project will focus on the local shrimp farming industry and developing local resource management groups across much of Indonesia to benefit from training programs, knowledge-sharing and resource use. SFP will reach 10,000 farmers in Indonesia with close collaboration with suppliers and the government.
The Thailand shrimp project will focus on local resource co-management and specifically target underserved women in farming families through the delivery of training around disease control, water quality monitoring and business management. The grant from the Walmart Foundation will help SFP target a wider area of Thailand to engage more stakeholders in the pursuit of safe, sustainable aquaculture.
In China, the grant will help further the work of SFP and help SFP develop a Code of Good Practice that farms will follow both individually and collectively. In addition, the grant will help SFP engage with more than 2,000 small-scale farmers of which a third are women. Women play a particularly pivotal role in family-owned hatcheries and training will be targeted toward their technical empowerment in terms of water quality and business management.
