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Posted on 2 March 2007 Some 60 stakeholders in the aquaculture sector converged to help the government define priorities for aquaculture research in a two-day workshop last February 27-28 at Rembrandt Hotel. The gathering, one of the last crucial activities under the Asian Development Bank-funded Aquaculture Development Technical Assistance (ADTA 4708-PHI) otherwise known as Strategy for Sustainable Aquaculture Development for Poverty Reduction, aimed to assist the Philippine Government prioritize its investments in aquaculture research and related capacity building that will support an emerging national strategy for sustainable aquaculture, contributing to poverty alleviation. PRIMEX is the project's consultant provider along with Malaysia-based WorldFish Center. Dr. Crispino Saclauso of the National Integrated Research Development Extension Agenda and Programs (NIRDEAP) and Dr. Westly Rosario of National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI) helped set the context for the succeeding workshops by respectively presenting overview papers on networking in Philippine aquaculture research and related capacity building, as well as the status and impacts of Philippine aquaculture research. Through breakaway workshops, participants reviewed recent and ongoing aquaculture research and the existing government support to aquaculture development and brainstormed on criteria upon which aquaculture research could be prioritized in terms of the likely contributions of its results to poverty alleviation. Workshop grouping and discussions were split in three groups in the context of six major groups of aquaculture products some understood to have distinctive but shared issues: Group A for for seaweeds, Group B. for shrimp, molluscs and other invertebrates; and Group C for all finfishes (milkfish, tilapia and other finfishes). Participants were made up of representatives from the public sector (government agencies, public institutes and universities), non-government organizations (NGOs), and the private sector (corporations, individual farmers, and farming associations). Research topics were selected for the aquaculture sector as a whole and for the six major commodity groups which were then assessed against the broad criteria earlier identified for aquaculture research. This resulted in the prioritized listing of research topics followed by the review of their needs for related capacity building. Aquaculture in the Philippines is a relatively new means of food production whose contributions to human well-being especially poverty alleviation are yet to be maximized. A way to achieve this is through supportive research that can help solve the sector’s problems and create new opportunities for Filipinos later. Back to Top |Back to News/Events
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