Untapped potential for sustainability: innovation in the Asian aquaculture industry – a WorldFish perspective
1. source: FAO
Untapped potential for sustainability: Malcolm Beveridge, Michael
Phillips, Wayne Rogers and Steve
innovation in the Asian aquaculture Hall
industry – a WorldFish perspective
2. overview
• WorldFish, sustainability and
innovation
• global analysis of
environmental sustain-ability
of aquaculture
• the role of innovation in
improving sustainability
– technological – breeds and
feeds
– business – social and
economic
3. where WorldFish is coming from
• reduce poverty and hunger by
improving fisheries & aquaculture
• develop and promote aquaculture
value chains that
– produce food that meets poor
consumer needs
– help reduce vulnerability of poor
producers and others involved in
aquaculture value chains
– achieves this without harming the
environment and those who
depend on it
6. BLUE FRONTIERS - background
• analyse global aquaculture production
across major species/ production
systems
– 75 species/system combinations
– accounted for 82% production
• compare biophysical resource
demands of each system and their
cumulative impacts
• compare the results with those from
other animal food production systems
• examine consequences of likely future
trends
11. what’s a better fish?
• meets the needs of farmers: faster growing, better survival, food conversion (costs); more
resistant to diseases; more docile (handling; grading)
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photo: Nabil Ahmed Ibrahim and Mohamed Yehia Abou Zaid
112 g
• meets the needs of society: affordable; nutritious; safe, environmentally friendly
12. family based fish selection programs in Asia
Number of Mean number Mean number of
programs of families traits selected for
Species
Common carp 8 76 2
Rohu carp 1 60-70 2
Silver barb 1 - 1
Tilapia – O. niloticus 20 229 3.6
Tilapia – O. aureus 2 90 2
Tilapia – red* 4 125 4
Tilapia – O. shiranus 1 51 1
* largely O. niloticus
source: Ingrid Olesen, Nofima; based on data modified from Gjedrem et al. (2012), after Rye et al. (2010)
13. improved strains and food production
• <10% of global aquaculture production is of genetically improved strains
33%
modified from Gjedrem (2012)
15. feeds
• how to produce greater quantities
of affordable, nutritious farmed
fish without increasing demands
for fishmeal and fish oil?
• increasing demands on oilseed
meals and oils and pulses for
human food
— better utilization of existing
scarce feedstuffs
— breed better fish
— improved FCRs
— improved ability to elongate
EFAs
source:
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16. Consortium for Research Excellence in
Agriculture Diversification
CropBase
Using ICT to bridge the Rural-Urban divide via access
to digital technologies across the value chain.
Web-‐based
pla>orm
for
under-‐u.lized
crops
Digital
Agriculture
FishPlus
Developing
StarchPlus
opportuni.es
at
the
interface
of
Iden.fying
High
Value
Nutri.onal
fish
–plant
alterna.ve
sources
of
Crops
Security
research
starch
Enhancing community nutrition and health by
Moving `up the value chain’ through diversifying range of crops and products
diversification of novel products.
22. business as usual will create unacceptable
environmental impacts
Aquaculture impacts Our planetary boundaries
Eutrophication
Freshwater use
Land use
Ecotoxicity
Biodiversity
Climate change
Energy use
source: Rockstrom et al. 2009
23. .. but by using better technologies
• develop and use better
breeds, while managing risks
• develop productive feeds
that address aquatic animal
nutritional needs while
producing nutritious aquatic
foods
• use systems and good
management practices
24. …
and
building
economically
sustainable
businesses
that
meet
poor
consumers’
needs
• there
is
an
emerging
business
case
for
investment
in
small
aquaculture
enterprises
that
can
generate
social,
economic
and
environmental
outcomes
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Produc.on,
revenues
and
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700
profits
on
fish
farms
in
Aceh
600
revenue
p.a.
per
farmer
500
$419
$435
400
$356
net
profit
p.a.per
farmer
300
$215
$202
$206
kg
produced
p.a.
per
200
farmer
110
183
100
133
119
$73
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2007
2008
2009
2010
• there
is
also
unmet
demand
for
farmed
aquaSc
products
that
meet
the
needs
of
poor
consumers
and
use
resources
be%er
25. … aquaculture can fulfill its potential to help reduce
poverty and hunger without costing the earth …
thank you
Malcolm Beveridge - M.Beveridge@cgiar.org - www.worldfishcenter.org
thanks
Ingrid Olesen, Nabil Ahmed Ibrahim and Md Yehia Abou Azid