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Aquaculture for improving productivity, income, nutrition and women's empowerment in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

BACKGROUND: A steady increase in the international production and consumption of fish has positioned aquaculture as a development option. Previous literature has highlighted the potential of aquaculture to improve economic, nutritional and gender equality outcomes, however, the evidence on the effec...

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Autores principales: Gonzalez Parrao, Constanza, Shisler, Shannon, Moratti, Marta, Yavuz, Cem, Acharya, Arnab, Eyers, John, Snilstveit, Birte
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8988765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37018454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1195
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author Gonzalez Parrao, Constanza
Shisler, Shannon
Moratti, Marta
Yavuz, Cem
Acharya, Arnab
Eyers, John
Snilstveit, Birte
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Shisler, Shannon
Moratti, Marta
Yavuz, Cem
Acharya, Arnab
Eyers, John
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description BACKGROUND: A steady increase in the international production and consumption of fish has positioned aquaculture as a development option. Previous literature has highlighted the potential of aquaculture to improve economic, nutritional and gender equality outcomes, however, the evidence on the effectiveness of these programmes remains unclear. OBJECTIVES: The review assessed whether aquaculture interventions increase the productivity, income, nutrition, and women's empowerment of individuals. We additionally aimed to identify barriers and facilitators that could affect the effectiveness of these interventions, and the cost‐effectiveness of such programmes. METHODS: We searched for experimental and quasi‐experimental studies focused on low‐ and middle‐income countries. We used standard methodological procedures expected by The Campbell Collaboration for the data collection and analysis. RESULTS: We identified 21 impact evaluations assessing the effect of 13 aquaculture interventions in low‐ and lower‐middle income countries. Twelve of these studies have a high risk of bias. Aquaculture interventions lead to a small increase in the production value, income, total expenditures and food consumption of participants. The limited availability of evidence prevented us from assessing other nutritional and women's empowerment outcomes. We identified barriers and facilitators affecting the programmes' set up, the participation of beneficiaries, and the level of productive activities. Insufficient cost data hindered full comparisons across programmes. CONCLUSIONS: The review suggests a lack of rigorous evidence assessing the effectiveness of aquaculture programmes. Future research could focus on evaluating nutrition and women's empowerment impacts, promoting reporting standards, and the use of cost data to continue building quality evidence around aquaculture interventions.
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spelling pubmed-89887652023-04-03 Aquaculture for improving productivity, income, nutrition and women's empowerment in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis Gonzalez Parrao, Constanza Shisler, Shannon Moratti, Marta Yavuz, Cem Acharya, Arnab Eyers, John Snilstveit, Birte Campbell Syst Rev SYSTEMATIC REVIEW BACKGROUND: A steady increase in the international production and consumption of fish has positioned aquaculture as a development option. Previous literature has highlighted the potential of aquaculture to improve economic, nutritional and gender equality outcomes, however, the evidence on the effectiveness of these programmes remains unclear. OBJECTIVES: The review assessed whether aquaculture interventions increase the productivity, income, nutrition, and women's empowerment of individuals. We additionally aimed to identify barriers and facilitators that could affect the effectiveness of these interventions, and the cost‐effectiveness of such programmes. METHODS: We searched for experimental and quasi‐experimental studies focused on low‐ and middle‐income countries. We used standard methodological procedures expected by The Campbell Collaboration for the data collection and analysis. RESULTS: We identified 21 impact evaluations assessing the effect of 13 aquaculture interventions in low‐ and lower‐middle income countries. Twelve of these studies have a high risk of bias. Aquaculture interventions lead to a small increase in the production value, income, total expenditures and food consumption of participants. The limited availability of evidence prevented us from assessing other nutritional and women's empowerment outcomes. We identified barriers and facilitators affecting the programmes' set up, the participation of beneficiaries, and the level of productive activities. Insufficient cost data hindered full comparisons across programmes. CONCLUSIONS: The review suggests a lack of rigorous evidence assessing the effectiveness of aquaculture programmes. Future research could focus on evaluating nutrition and women's empowerment impacts, promoting reporting standards, and the use of cost data to continue building quality evidence around aquaculture interventions. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8988765/ /pubmed/37018454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1195 Text en © 2021 International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). Campbell Systematic Reviews published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Campbell Collaboration. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shisler, Shannon
Moratti, Marta
Yavuz, Cem
Acharya, Arnab
Eyers, John
Snilstveit, Birte
Aquaculture for improving productivity, income, nutrition and women's empowerment in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
title Aquaculture for improving productivity, income, nutrition and women's empowerment in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
title_full Aquaculture for improving productivity, income, nutrition and women's empowerment in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
title_fullStr Aquaculture for improving productivity, income, nutrition and women's empowerment in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
title_full_unstemmed Aquaculture for improving productivity, income, nutrition and women's empowerment in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
title_short Aquaculture for improving productivity, income, nutrition and women's empowerment in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
title_sort aquaculture for improving productivity, income, nutrition and women's empowerment in low‐ and middle‐income countries: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
topic SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8988765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37018454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1195
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