Lower Mekong Food Security Database

Project Information

The project aimed to make shrimp brackish water aquaculture sustainable in order to increase households’ revenues and reduce rural depopulation while protecting the ecosystem.

Its immediate objectives included:

• Confirm on a significant sample of sites the reliability of quantifiable relationships between shrimp production and ecological indicators, issued from previous research work (STD3);
• Analyze farming practices and social behavior on the same sites in order to determine those allowing lowest environmental and economic costs;
• Carry out mapping of mangrove vegetation, soil and intrusions and land use over the 3 sub-areas;
• Implement and feed a database focused on farms, start point of future monitoring;
• Increase capacity building of scientist, local fisheries authorities and farmers groups through a strong involvement in the program.
• Provide the Vietnamese counterparts with the tools and methods making them able to devise a follow-up development project extended to the whole of the Mekong Delta.

The targeted groups were decentralized administrations and shrimp farmers in Ca Mau and Tra Vinh.

Project Locations

Ca Mau, Tra Vinh