Impact Assessment of Aqua Silviculture of Milagros and Placer, Masbate
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11594/ijmaber.03.09.17Keywords:
Aqua silviculture, Asid Gulf, FishCoralAbstract
With the alarming poverty incidence among fisherfolks communities, the Department of Agriculture – Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) embarked a project dubbed as Fisheries, Coastal Resources and Livelihood (FishCORAL) funded by United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (UN-IFAD) to address the problem by providing livelihood project to the coastal areas of different regions in the country. To assess the impact of the said project in the Bicol region, Bicol University in collaboration with different State Colleges and Universities in the region conducted a project called impact assessment on different project of the FishCORAL livelihood projects. The aim of the study is to assess the key indicators of the project if the goals of the project was met with the implementation of the livelihood project. The study used convenience sampling in the field surveys and focus group discussions to draw conclusion wherein the respondents are the recipient of the aqua silviculture livelihood project. The study reveals that the beneficiaries is under big household category making them hard to financially sustain the basic needs of the family because there is large percentage of dependent individuals. It was also noted that they do not have their own lot where they built their houses and the source of drinking water is unprotected well. In addition, the livelihood project is not sustainable because of various problems such as no profit from the first production cycle, most of the beneficiaries backed out during the implementation and the association itself is not technically prepared to implement the project to sustainable ends. Conduct of more technical capability training along varied aspects of aqua silviculture shall be caried out. Also, trainings on financial literacy, business management and basic record keeping are very necessary. There is also a need to craft a clearcut guideline and operational protocol to guide the aqua silviculture venture. Maybe, a root cause analysis of the previous production cycle should be
carried-out to highlight lessons and undertake corrective measures. The association must be reorganized, reoriented and retooled.
Downloads
References
Alkire, S., Meinzen-Dick, R., Peterman, A., Quisumbing, A., Seymour, G., Vaz, A., (2013) The women’s empowerment in agriculture index. World Development, 52, 71-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.06.007.
Calculating the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Indext, (N.D). https://agrilinks.org/sites/default/files/resource/files/WEAI%20Presentation%20110912.pdf
Castaño, M. 1997. An Aquasilvufarm in the Philippines. AFDEC Asian Aquaculture Vol. XIX No. 5. 18-20 https://aquadocs.org/bitstream/handle/1834/35111/castanos1997-aquasilvifarm-in-the-philippines.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
CHED_Philippine_National_Aquasilviculture_Program_in_Bataan_A_Strategy_for_Mangrove_Rehabilitation
Chen, J. & James, M., (2021, March 20). Financial asset. Investopedia. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financialasset.asp
Dieta, R.E. and Dieta, F.C. 2014. The Philippine National Aqua silviculture Program. National Brackishwater Fisheries Technology Center, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Department of Agriculture, Quezon City, Philippines, 77-83. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/77980931.pdf
Dioneda R.R., Asejo, R.B., Burce, R.B., Balangawan, R.R., & Tumbaga, B.S. 2019. Status of Corals and Coral Reef Fishes in Asid Gulf, pp. 33-51. In Dioneda, R.R., Naz, G.A.A. & Torres, E.E. (Eds), Participatory Resource and Socio-Economic Assessment of Asid Gulf. Terminal report submitted for the Fisheries, Coastal Resources and Livelihood Project, De-partment of Agriculture Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Quezon City. Bicol University Center for Policy Studies and Development, Legazpi City. 144 pp.
Dioneda, R.R., Naz, G.A.A. & Torres, E.E. (Eds), Participa-tory Resource and Socio-Economic Assessment of Asid Gulf. Terminal report submitted for the Fish-eries, Coastal Resources and Livelihood Project, Department of Agriculture Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Quezon City. Bicol University Center for Policy Studies and Development, Legazpi City. 144 pp.
Fisheries, Coastal Resources, and Livelihood Project (FishCORAL), 2020. http://fishcoral.bfar.da.gov.ph/about-us
Flores, R.C, et al., 2015. BFAR-CHED Philippine National Aquasilviculture Program in Bataan: A Strategy Towards Fisheries Sustainability and Excellence. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280627611_BFAR-
Guiriba, M.A.B., R.B. Asejo, M.T.B. Bron and G. Espinosa, H.L. Marana and D.N. Sy. 2019. Status of seagrass and seaweeds communities in Asid Gulf, Philip-pines. Pp 52-69. In
Hayes, A. (2019, July 8). Physical asset. Investopedia. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/physicalasset.asp
International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), (N.D). Fisheries, Coastal Resources and Livelihood Project.
International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), 2015. Evaluation Manual, Second Edition. https://www.ifad.org/documents/38714182/39748829/manual.pdf/bfec198c-62fd-46ff-abae-285d0e0709d6
Kenton, W. & Sonnenshen, M., (2020, September 4). Hu-man capital. Investopedia. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/humancapital.asp
Mahawan, A. M., Velza, J. F. P., Ibañez, Jr. , R. Y., Dioneda, Sr. , R. R., Belardo, S. B., & Agonos, E. M. (2022). Women Empowerment in Selected Fisheries-Related Livelihoods In Asid Gulf, Masbate, Philippines. International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research, 3(6), 1219-1230. https://doi.org/10.11594//ijmaber.03.06.24
Mailath, G. & Postlewaite, A., (2006). Social assets. Inter-national Economic Review, 47(4), 1057-1091. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3877453
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Develop-ment [OECD], (n.d.). Natural assets. Glossary of Statistical Terms. https://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=1729
Philippine Statistics Authority, Volume 27, 2018. https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/Fisheries%20Statistics%20of%20the%20Philippines%2C%202016-2018.pdf
Rao, B.M, et al., 2017. Aqua silviculture: A Strategy to Preserve the Future for Next Generation Farming. Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai-400061, India. Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture,Bhubaneswar-751002,India. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340266137_aquasilviculture-23-26
Torres, E.E., Carrillo, A.J.G., & Lopos, M.A. 2019. Socio-Demographic and Economic Assessment of Coastal Communities in Asid Gulf, pp 1-12. In Di-oneda, R.R., Naz, G.A.A. & Torres, E.E. (Eds), Partic-ipatory Resource and Socio-Economic Assessment of Asid Gulf. Terminal report submitted for the Fisheries, Coastal Resources and Livelihood Pro-ject, Department of Agriculture Bureau of Fisher-ies and Aquatic Resources, Quezon City. Bicol Uni-versity Center for Policy Studies and Development, Legazpi City. 144 pp.
World Health Organization, 2019. Sanitation. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/sanitation
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See the Effect of Open Access).
