Replication Data for: Integrating fish into water control infrastructure in Myanmar: Rice Fish What If? (doi:10.7910/DVN/QKVXOP)

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Replication Data for: Integrating fish into water control infrastructure in Myanmar: Rice Fish What If?

doi:10.7910/DVN/QKVXOP

Harvard Dataverse

2020-03-24

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Dubois, Mark; Akester, Michael; Leemans, Kimio; Teoh, Shwu Jiau; Stuart, Alex; Thant, Aung Myo; San, Su Su; Shein, Nilar; Leh, Mansoor; Moet, Palal Moet; Radanielson, Ando M., 2020, "Replication Data for: Integrating fish into water control infrastructure in Myanmar: Rice Fish What If?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QKVXOP, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Replication Data for: Integrating fish into water control infrastructure in Myanmar: Rice Fish What If?

doi:10.7910/DVN/QKVXOP

Dubois, Mark (WorldFish)

Akester, Michael (WorldFish)

Leemans, Kimio (WorldFish)

Teoh, Shwu Jiau (WorldFish)

Stuart, Alex (International Rice Research Institute (IRRI))

Thant, Aung Myo (International Rice Research Institute (IRRI))

San, Su Su (International Rice Research Institute (IRRI))

Shein, Nilar (Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, Myanmar)

Leh, Mansoor (The International Water Management Institute (IWMI))

Moet, Palal Moet (The International Water Management Institute (IWMI))

Radanielson, Ando M. (Universitry of Southern Queensland)

Fish CRP ACIAR

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

WorldFish

CSIRO journal Marine and Freshwater Research

2019-08-05

Harvard Dataverse

WorldFish

Dubois, Mark

WorldFish RDM Team

2020-03-24

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QKVXOP

Social Sciences, Rice Fish Culture, Suitability mapping, Integrated farming, Multifunctional landscapes

With rapidly increasing investment in water control infrastructure (WCI) and a recently ratified agriculture development strategy that promotes integrated farming of high-value products such as fish, agricultural production, already fundamental to Myanmar’s economy, will be central to driving the countries’ socioeconomic transformation. Water planners and managers have a unique opportunity to design and manage WCI to incorporate fish and, in so doing, reduce conflicts and optimise the benefits to both people and the ecosystem services upon which they depend. Results from rice–fish culture experimental trials in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta are providing an evidence base for the importance of integrating fish into WCI, highlighting a range of both environmental and social benefits. By using less than 13% of paddy land area and through best management practices, existing rice productivity is sustained, alongside a 25% increase in economic returns for the same land area from fish. In addition, there are considerably more protein and micronutrients available from the fish produced in the system. Should these farming system innovations be adopted at scale, Myanmar stands to benefit from increased employment, incomes and nutritional value of farm plots (alongside associated reductions in pesticide pollution) and water use benefits.1

Myanmar

Experimental data

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Dubois, M.J. et al. (2019). Integrating fish into irrigation infrastructure projects in Myanmar: rice-fish what if…? Marine and Freshwater Research, 70(9): 1229-1240

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Dubois, M.J. et al. (2019). Integrating fish into irrigation infrastructure projects in Myanmar: rice-fish what if…? Marine and Freshwater Research, 70(9): 1229-1240

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