TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgement Introduction General ...

The Role of Small-Scale Aquaculture in Rural
Development
Poverty alleviation is central to the concept of rural development.
However, the prevailing development strategy in the 1960s and 1970s of
structural change based on urban-industrial growth did not lead to the
trickle-down of benefits to poor people in rural areas. “Rural
development” approaches, thus, emerged to address more directly the
problem of rural poverty.
Different approaches to rural development
Basic minimum needs provision, implying a continuation of
paternalistic attitudes by government
Integrated rural development, emphasizing the need to address
both the economic and social issues
Employment creation, emphasizing the economic sector
Key principles emerging
Peoples’ participation
Bottom-up planning
This has been just as true of aquaculture as with other sectors. After
concentrating on intensive systems based on high-external input