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Community-based Participatory Initiatives on Climate Change Resiliency and Sustainability in Aquaculture


In 2012 December, a year before the Typhoon Yolanda devastation, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) launched the Philippine National Aquasilviculture Programme (PNAP) jointly with the Commission on Higher Educations' 74 State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in Fisheries to implement an environment friendly-cum-sustainable production in aquaculture utilising the mangrove resources managed by the coastal community aimed to provide livelihood and self-sufficiency in food-fish, environmental protection while preserving the mangrove resource in its natural estate. Recently, two years after the Haiyan phenomenon, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (UNFAO) launched the 'Blue-Growth Initiative' (BGI) programme addressing climate change adaptability and sustainability in the aquaculture production intensification of which the Philippines was among the economic-state recipient countries to showcase model aquafarming projects in tilapia and seaweeds (Gracilaria spp.) involving small-scale fisherfolks. This paper described the project implementation in designated production areas vulnerable to climate change impacts and the participatory efforts of various stakeholders.


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