Blockchain is an emerging technology with a core emphasis on decentralization. Along with this, blockchain is immutable and follows a consensus, thereby promoting data ownership and data provenance to its users. The concept of self-sovereign identity further promotes a decentralized and distributed network. The use cases of blockchain extend beyond the cryptocurrency world. Using decentralized identifiers, smart contracts, and zero-knowledge proofs, verifiable credential models can enhance multiple areas of society. This paper focuses on establishing a communication channel between fishermen and customers within India's fisheries sector, leveraging blockchain technology. The system is designed to be fully traceable and trackable, ensuring transparency. Fishermen retain ownership of their data, empowering them to receive fair prices, while consumers gain confidence in the authenticity of their purchases. To support trust, a data-driven layer analyzes state-wise valuation and pricing trends from 2020 to 2023. These insights help verified fishermen and buyers make informed decisions with greater transparency and regional context.
Mak Sithirith, Sanjiv de Silva, Sao Sok, Heng Kong
Asian Mega Deltas (AMD), including the Mekong Delta, are densely populated areas, biodiverse, fertile and productive food baskets, dominated by rice, fisheries, and aquaculture that also support millions beyond the deltas. Asian Mega Deltas are the world´s most important rice-growing areas. However, delta food systems are reaching a significant tipping point. The Asian Mega Deltas are likely to be hit by serious impacts of climate change, including more frequent and more intense floods, salinization, water shortages and climate extremes that will slow down economic growth, further erode food security, and trigger new poverty traps and emerging hotspots of hunger. The AMD Initiative has five focus areas of work packages (WP) that are mechanisms to pursue specific but complementary aims: 1. Adapting Deltaic Production Systems, 2. Nutrition-Sensitive Deltaic Agri-Food Systems, 3. Innovative Financing Mechanisms to De-risk Delta Value Chains, 4. Joined-up Governance for Gender Equitable and Socially Inclusive Natural Resource Food Systems and 5. Evidence-Based Delta Development Planning. Among of these five WPs, the AMD-WP4 is worked to implement the pilot on The Innovation Model for Integrated Decentralized Food System Governance at the District Level to conduct the research and documentation on improving food system governance to support the food system decentralization processes, build the connectivity between the community fisheries (CFis), community fish refuge (CFR), the irrigation system, and rice farming as an integrated food production system through improving water governance, promote the collaboration between the CFis, CFR and farmer water user communities (FWUC), community ecotourism and other relevant stakeholders to work together to manage the fishery, water, rice farming, and irrigation management based on collective approaches and interests to produce foods and support the livelihoods of local communities, promote the role district administration and Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment Office and build the capacity of local communities.
s - This study investigated the causal relationship between quantity of fish sold and marketing costs in Adamawa State. Specifically, the profitability was determined and distribution channels identified. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data from 80 fish marketers using purposive and simple random sampling technique from Jimeta, Yola, Gurin and Labondo markets. Analytical tools used were descriptive statistics, market margin and multiple regression analysis. The result showed a margin of 39.8% which could be attributed to the marketing functions. The study identified a decentralized distribution channel in the area. Regression analysis revealed an R2 of 63.8%, F-value of 8.93 and a very low standard error of 0.38889. The result further revealed that initial capital, cost of fish, processing cost and handling charges were positive and significant at different levels indicating that they were the major determinants of selling prices of processed fish in the area. The study concluded that processed fish marketing in the study area was profitable. It recommended that marketers should form a strong co-operative society. There is also a need for government intervention by reducing tax and providing licence to increase the number of micro-credit finance institutions.