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PART 3 HIGHLIGHTS OF ONGOING STUDIES
BOX 20
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Livelihood Programme for South and Southeast Asia
(RFLP) are shared through lessons learned notes on
the potential uses and users’ benefits, tips, issues to
consider and potential pitfalls, as well as critical
questions to ask before committing to the use of any
information or communication technology (FAO,
2012c).
Lessons learned
As experience in the use of ICT for small-scale
fisheries and aquaculture grows, so does
knowledge on the benefits and risks associated with
different ICTs and on good practices in their
development and implementation. For example,
recent experiences of the Regional Fisheries
FIGURE 42
ABALOBI – A RANGE OF INTEGRATED MOBILE PHONE APPLICATIONS FOR SOUTH AFRICAN
SMALL-SCALE FISHERS
ABALOBI FISHER ABALOBI MONITOR ABALOBI MANAGER ABALOBI CO-OP ABALOBI MARKETPLACE
The foundation of the app
suite where fishers
co-produce knowledge
Personal logbook with
sharing options
Safety-at-sea integrations Digitized community catch
monitoring at the landing
site and along the shoreline Real-time fishery data and
communications for
co-management Co-operative member and
fleet management
Transparent collective
accounting
Catch value-adding Fish with an ecological and
social "story"
Towards community-supported
fisheries
Empowerment in
the value chain
SOURCE: ABALOBI, 2017
» past, the status, potential, limitations and
to rural livelihood development. In 2008, at an
expert workshop in Nha Trang, Viet Nam, FAO
and partners launched the development of
assessment indicators to measure the
performance of the sector and to support local,
regional and national policy-makers in
accounting its contributions (Bondad-Reantaso
and Prein, 2009). The Nha Trang indicator system
is intended to enhance understanding of the risks
and threats to small-scale aquaculture as a basis
for designing appropriate inter ventions, setting
constraints of small-scale aquaculture at the
countr y level could only be evaluated through
case studies or the use of methods such as rapid
rural appraisal, participator y rural appraisal or
impact assessment to evaluate its role in povert y
alleviation and food securit y. These approaches
were useful for sectoral planning and
development; however, they did not permit
systematic assessment of the contribution of
small-scale aquaculture to aquaculture overall or
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