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Development of Freshwater Fish farming and Poverty Alleviation

A Case Study from Bangladesh

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Publisher: Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific

Creation date: June 2002

Half of the 130 million people in Bangladesh are poor and 30 million are living in extreme poverty. Poverty reduction and improvement of the livelihoods of the poorest of the poor has always been one of the major goals of development programmes in Bangladesh and is a major objective in all the aquaculture development programmes. Whether the benefits of these programmes have been made available to the poor can be questioned, as their basic strategy: "growth of the overall fish production through fish farming" was in most cases not consistent with the socio-economic reality of the rural poor in Bangladesh. We want to illustrate this point with two case studies: the Compartmentalisation Pilot Project and the Char Development and Settlement Project.

Key Words: NACA • Bangladesh • Socioeconomics • Poverty Alleviation • Carp • Case Study • FAO