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viiiPrefacesustainability, recent concerns around the food “crisis,” and other impending futureconcerns such as climate change.BackgroundFollowing the recommendations of the Workshop on “Research Needs to SustainingAquaculture to 2025 and Beyond” (http://www.enaca.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1733&keywords=IDRC), June 2007, held in Rayong, Thailand (sponsoredby IDRC Canada), the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD),World Fisheries Trust (WFT), and Network of Aquaculture Centers in Asia-Pacific(NACA) decided that there is an evolving demand and a clear opportunity to domore to better define future development-oriented research directions. There wasagreement that aquaculture, particularly small-scale aquaculture, has always beenabout people and rural communities, but the examination of social organization andrelated issues have been relatively untouched in laying the future directions ofdevelopment-oriented research in this field, for example, the new managementpractices evolving in Indian shrimp aquaculture (Umesh 2007). Furthermore, thequestions arise as to what approaches might be tried in regions where aquaculturehas a shorter (and different) history, but a significant potential scope to improverural livelihoods, such as in Latin America, the wider Caribbean, and Africa.Our work has involved a variety of partners from government, academia, nongovernmentand international organizations. This group embarked on the undertakingof a comparative analysis of the lessons learned from selected “success stories”in aquaculture. It is hoped that these lessons learned from the successes dealt withinthis compendium will provide some guiding examples for attaining sustainabilityof other ongoing aquaculture practices as well as in future endeavors in the sector.This study is intended to capture the trends and lessons learned that have driventhis evolution of aquaculture augmented with comparable cases on small-scalefisheries. This material will form a part of the strategy for guiding the more detailedfollow-up steps, which will hopefully set a new course for a more sustainable developmentof aquaculture. Our plans include the development of a series of influencingstrategies to follow based on the lessons learned from this documentation andanalytic phase.In brief, our objectives were to prepare case studies and a synthesis examiningthe evolution and adaptation strategies in aquaculture and small-scale fisheries inthe developing world.The purpose of success stories that we have chosen are expected to:• Highlight experiences in aquaculture development which have led to positivesocial change and negligible ecosystem impacts• Provide a better understanding of the factors and approaches leading to sustainableaquaculture growth combined with positive societal change• Show that small-scale farmers have incentives for and can act responsibly