Impact assessment of ACIAR’s Aceh aquaculture rehabilitation projects
Indonesia (Aceh)
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has been investing substantially in fisheries R&D in Indonesia since the early 1990s, one of these was the Aceh Aquaculture Rehabilitation Project. The two key projects involved were focused on re-establishing coastal aquaculture as a key source of income and employment in Aceh and to meet an urgent need at the time in post tsunami Aceh to provide technical support to tambak (pond) redevelopment activities. ACIAR commissioned PT. Mitra Asia Lestari to carry out an impact assessment of the projects, which involved interviews and surveys, as well as the collection of production and socioeconomic data to ascertain the extent to which project outputs were adopted. Surveys and interviews were conducted across Indonesia with stakeholders involved in the projects, including farmers, researchers, extension workers, traders, government officials and project leaders and appointees.
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