how can intensive aquaculture be the solution to combat food crises in developing countries?
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Question by mary mary: how can intensive aquaculture be the solution to combat food crises in developing countries?
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I would start looking at countries were fish is a basis of their diet. Access to the intensive aquacultures would have to be free to all fishermen (I live in a city with huge langostine farms, and where onlythe owner of the farm has access to the fish and its revenues). Perhaps treat it like a commons, but then read Tragedy of the Commons to understand how u could avoid the mishaps of shared resources. UNless you would have a distributor to manage this, but this also leads to issues of corruption. However, accountability (if systems for it are arranged) is clearer in the latter than in the former.
Then there is the issue of investment. Perhaps there are doctoral studies out there that are dealing intensive aquacultures that could testdrive their proposals in developing nations (rather than test it through the market, because developed nations have far too much access to food anyway) You would need good scientists in the field to study the avaiable yields and ensure that the base population does not decrease. That said, all incentives to combat food crises in developing countries are worth pursuing.
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January 31, 2012 at 4:05 pm