Improving women's lives in Cambodia through fish on farms
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2014
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WRENmedia
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Outcomes story describes emerging outcomes from the Fish on Farms Project.
Households who adopt fishponds to raise small and large fish, in addition to vegetable growing, earn significant extra income (worth 60% of average monthly income) and have fish to eat, thereby improving nutritional security. Fishponds and homestead gardens have empowered women by giving them more control over household income. 75% of women in homestead food production (HFP) households reported having disposable income, compared with only 20% in control group households. The project brief describes a randomized control trial involving 900 women farmers, with future plans to scale up the model
Households who adopt fishponds to raise small and large fish, in addition to vegetable growing, earn significant extra income (worth 60% of average monthly income) and have fish to eat, thereby improving nutritional security. Fishponds and homestead gardens have empowered women by giving them more control over household income. 75% of women in homestead food production (HFP) households reported having disposable income, compared with only 20% in control group households. The project brief describes a randomized control trial involving 900 women farmers, with future plans to scale up the model
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CAMBODIA, FAR EAST ASIA, AQUACULTURE, FISH ON FARMS, NUTRITION RESEARCH, INCOME GENERATION, GENDER MAINSTREAMING, FOOD SECURITY, POND CULTURE, WOMEN FARMERS