Lower Mekong Food Security Database

Project Information

A renewed interest in and support towards fisheries management and sustainable livelihood enhancement was urgently needed in order to forestall severe poverty and halt ecosystem degradation to the detriment of fishers, fisher communities and entire coastal populations and economies. The key problem areas that needed attention included the following:

• Lack of mechanisms and capacity for joint management of the fisheries between the fishers and government authorities;
  
• Vulnerability of small-scale fishers and their families in view of the risky occupation and exposed habitation;
  
• Loss of income from fish and fishery products due to poor handling, preservation and processing practices and inequitable returns from marketing systems;
  
• Need for alternative incomes to supplement the livelihood when fishing activities have to be reduced for sustainable resource management and; and
  
• Access to micro-finance to diversify income, adapt fishing equipment to new management regulations and to reduce vulnerability.
  

Complementary Information

Project Locations

Cambodia, Vietnam