Tran, Nhuong and Chu, Long and Chan, Chin Yee and Peart, Jeffrey and Nasr-Allah, Ahmed M. and Karisa, Harrison Charo (2022) Prospects of fish supply-demand and its implications for food and nutrition security in Egypt. Marine Policy, 146. p. 10.
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Aquaculture plays an increasingly important role in meeting the rising global demand for fish fuelled by economic and demographic growth. However, in many middle-income countries, aquaculture is constrained by rising labour costs, limited input supply, environmental concerns, and infectious diseases. In this paper, we developed a multi-species, multi-sector equilibrium model and applied it to the fishery sector of Egypt, a leading aquaculture producer in Africa, to examine these barriers. Projection results show that rising wage rates would slow down the growth of labour-intensive aquaculture compared to those that use relatively less labour. The demand for feed, seed inputs and water use for aquaculture would substantially increase. The results also show that disease outbreaks would possibly affect production sectors via output reduction and also consumers via increases in fish price. Our findings suggest that stabilising the prices of feed and seed, investments in disease control and input-use efficiency improvement technologies, including water use, are important while the overall effectiveness of tax instruments is modest. Though calibrated to Egypt, our approach can be applied to other middle-size national aquaculture industries.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Egypt, Aquaculture, Infectious Disease, Fisheries, Feed, Seeds, Food Security, Nutrition |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2024 06:32 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 06:32 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/20650 |
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