Is Aquaculture Pro-Poor? Empirical Evidence of Impacts on Fish Consumption in Bangladesh

By K. Toufique, B. Belton. 2014

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Aquaculture is widely held to contribute to poverty reduction and food security in the Global South, but robust evidence is limited. Using nationally representative data from Bangladesh, this study analyses changes in fish consumption from 2000 to 2010. Rapid expansion of commercial aquaculture pegged down fish prices, resulting in increased fish consumption by extreme poor and moderate poor consumers and those in rural areas. These outcomes are closely linked to the pro-poor nature of national economic growth during this period. These findings contribute to a broadening of the debate on whether the growth of aquaculture in Bangladesh has been pro-poor.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Nutrition and Dietetics

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Christophe Béné
2. E. Allison
3. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
4. D. Little

In Global and Planetary Change

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2. Christophe Béné
3. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
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In Nutrition and Dietetics

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3. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
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Citations in the corpus

• Sustainable intensification of aquaculture value chains between Asia and Europe: A framework for understanding impacts and challenges (2017, background): “Some studies have suggested (e.g. Toufique and Belton, 2014) that movement away from open access exploitation of aquatic resources to more intensified management can lead to erosion of rights and benefits to poorer groups and that consolidated intensive aquaculture in turn often results in a…”
• A Revolution Without People? Closing the People-Policy Gap in Aquaculture Development (2015, background): “…by such institutional arrangements and academic interests, thus policy directions may not necessarily reflect their concerns, priorities or necessities, leading to the question of which type of aquaculture and for whom (Belton and Little, 2008; Belton and Little, 2011; Toufique and Belton, 2014).”
• Sustaining healthy diets: The role of capture fisheries and aquaculture for improving nutrition in the post-2015 era (2016, background): “However, the price of indigenous small fish from capture systems, which are more nutrient-rich and more likely to be consumed by the poor, has risen sharply (Belton et al., 2014; Toufique and Belton, 2014).”
• Fair Enough? Food Security and the International Trade of Seafood (2015, unknown): “2 Moreover, Toufique and Belton (2014) find that aquaculture might have indirect, positive welfare impacts on the poor via increased fish consumption.”
• Feeding 9 billion by 2050 – Putting fish back on the menu (2015, background): “Similarly, Betru and Kawashima (2009) and Toufique and Belton (2014) present data from Ethiopia and Bangladesh, indicating that urbanization affects animal food consumption rates independently of income.”