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Fishing Communities Seek Security in Aquaculture and Mangrove Restoration
Winner
2009-3333
Trowel Development Foundation, Inc.
Phillipines
182284
Climate Risk Management with Multiple Benefits
Environment
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In Northern Samar, about 20,000 poor fishing households engaged in capture-fishing and small-scale aquaculture, and dependent on aquatic resources for their livelihood, face severe economic dislocation if impacts of sea-level rise and strong storms due to climate change are not mitigated. The situation is further aggravated by the existence of hundreds of hectares of abandoned fishponds lying idle in a once vast mangrove forest that previously served as source of diverse food and livelihoods, and protected coastal villages from storms and extreme climatic events.
Objectives:
To build and strengthen adaptive capacities of coastal villages to impacts of climate change with the aim of securing livelihoods of subsistence fishing households, restoring biodiversity of aquatic resources, and contributing in the long term to the protection of coastal areas from strong storms and sea-level rise.
Rationale:
In Northern Samar, about 20,000 poor fishing households engaged in capture-fishing and small-scale aquaculture, and dependent on aquatic resources for their livelihood, face severe economic dislocation if impacts of sea-level rise and strong storms due to climate change are not mitigated. The situation is further aggravated by the existence of hundreds of hectares of abandoned fishponds lying idle in a once vast mangrove forest that previously served as source of diverse food and livelihoods, and protected coastal villages from storms and extreme climatic events.
Innovation / Expected Results:
The project’s innovation involves integration and management of a three-tiered strategy that secures livelihoods and enhances adaptive capacities of poor fishing households to storms and sea-level rise: popularization of disaster-resilient, tie-crab fattening technique, comanagement approach in ecological mangrove restoration, and value-chain development in crab fattening and marketing.