Rethinking Learning in Community Fish Refuge Management: Insights from Cambodia
Inland fisheries are central to rural livelihoods in Cambodia, providing both subsistence and seasonal income. Community Fish Refuges (CFRs) are a recent innovation in the Tonle Sap floodplain to retain floodwater and provide dry season aquatic habitats. They offer a sustainable strategy to enhance...
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| author | Baldivieso, Carla De Silva, Sanjiv Gleich, Pia Soeun, Kimourn Neth, Sreypov Ou, Phichong Sun, Vathanak Sean, Vichet Oem, Sothanh Koy, Chandy Ostrower, Lara Freed, Sarah Mak, Sithirith Dubois, Mark Sieber, Stefan Bonatti, Michelle |
| author_browse | Baldivieso, Carla Bonatti, Michelle De Silva, Sanjiv Dubois, Mark Freed, Sarah Gleich, Pia Koy, Chandy Mak, Sithirith Neth, Sreypov Oem, Sothanh Ostrower, Lara Ou, Phichong Sean, Vichet Sieber, Stefan Soeun, Kimourn Sun, Vathanak |
| author_facet | Baldivieso, Carla De Silva, Sanjiv Gleich, Pia Soeun, Kimourn Neth, Sreypov Ou, Phichong Sun, Vathanak Sean, Vichet Oem, Sothanh Koy, Chandy Ostrower, Lara Freed, Sarah Mak, Sithirith Dubois, Mark Sieber, Stefan Bonatti, Michelle |
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| description | Inland fisheries are central to rural livelihoods in Cambodia, providing both subsistence and seasonal income. Community Fish Refuges (CFRs) are a recent innovation in the Tonle Sap floodplain to retain floodwater and provide dry season aquatic habitats. They offer a sustainable strategy to enhance fish productivity within rice field fisheries by protecting fish populations in communal water bodies managed by local communities. As new shared multiple-use assets, CFRs represent a need for a new management and learning system that can foster resource management that is both a collective effort and integrates the needs of multiple water stakeholders. While the ecological and production benefits of CFRs are well documented, the challenge is how communities and CFR Committees can adapt, through collective learning, to collectively managing this shared asset in the long term. Unequal access to learning driven by social inequalities, hierarchical communication structures, and short project cycles undermines inclusive participation, peer learning, and leadership renewal in CFRs. Ultimately, all learning processes must be guided by local needs and contextual realities and grounded in approaches that affirm local communities' rights to food security, self-determination, ongoing processes of collective learning, and inclusive participation in environmental governance. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1801582026-01-22T15:48:30Z Rethinking Learning in Community Fish Refuge Management: Insights from Cambodia Baldivieso, Carla De Silva, Sanjiv Gleich, Pia Soeun, Kimourn Neth, Sreypov Ou, Phichong Sun, Vathanak Sean, Vichet Oem, Sothanh Koy, Chandy Ostrower, Lara Freed, Sarah Mak, Sithirith Dubois, Mark Sieber, Stefan Bonatti, Michelle water governance inland fisheries sustainable fisheries rice fish management practices community-based resource management community fish refuges (cfrs) rice-field fisheries food security and livelihoods Inland fisheries are central to rural livelihoods in Cambodia, providing both subsistence and seasonal income. Community Fish Refuges (CFRs) are a recent innovation in the Tonle Sap floodplain to retain floodwater and provide dry season aquatic habitats. They offer a sustainable strategy to enhance fish productivity within rice field fisheries by protecting fish populations in communal water bodies managed by local communities. As new shared multiple-use assets, CFRs represent a need for a new management and learning system that can foster resource management that is both a collective effort and integrates the needs of multiple water stakeholders. While the ecological and production benefits of CFRs are well documented, the challenge is how communities and CFR Committees can adapt, through collective learning, to collectively managing this shared asset in the long term. Unequal access to learning driven by social inequalities, hierarchical communication structures, and short project cycles undermines inclusive participation, peer learning, and leadership renewal in CFRs. Ultimately, all learning processes must be guided by local needs and contextual realities and grounded in approaches that affirm local communities' rights to food security, self-determination, ongoing processes of collective learning, and inclusive participation in environmental governance. 2025-12-31 2026-01-19T20:45:19Z 2026-01-19T20:45:19Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180158 en Open Access application/pdf WorldFish Carla Baldivieso, Sanjiv De Silva, Pia Gleich, Kimourn Soeun, Sreypov Neth, Phichong Ou, Vathanak Sun, Vichet Sean, Sothanh Oem, Chandy Koy, Lara Ostrower, Sarah Freed, Sithirith Mak, Mark Dubois, Stefan Sieber, Michelle Bonatti. (31/12/2025). Rethinking Learning in Community Fish Refuge Management: Insights from Cambodia. Bayan Lepas, Malaysia: WorldFish (WorldFish). |
| spellingShingle | water governance inland fisheries sustainable fisheries rice fish management practices community-based resource management community fish refuges (cfrs) rice-field fisheries food security and livelihoods Baldivieso, Carla De Silva, Sanjiv Gleich, Pia Soeun, Kimourn Neth, Sreypov Ou, Phichong Sun, Vathanak Sean, Vichet Oem, Sothanh Koy, Chandy Ostrower, Lara Freed, Sarah Mak, Sithirith Dubois, Mark Sieber, Stefan Bonatti, Michelle Rethinking Learning in Community Fish Refuge Management: Insights from Cambodia |
| title | Rethinking Learning in Community Fish Refuge Management: Insights from Cambodia |
| title_full | Rethinking Learning in Community Fish Refuge Management: Insights from Cambodia |
| title_fullStr | Rethinking Learning in Community Fish Refuge Management: Insights from Cambodia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rethinking Learning in Community Fish Refuge Management: Insights from Cambodia |
| title_short | Rethinking Learning in Community Fish Refuge Management: Insights from Cambodia |
| title_sort | rethinking learning in community fish refuge management insights from cambodia |
| topic | water governance inland fisheries sustainable fisheries rice fish management practices community-based resource management community fish refuges (cfrs) rice-field fisheries food security and livelihoods |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/180158 |
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