ABSTRACT
The aims of this chapter are to:
Define what constitutes rural aquaculture in the context of this review and reflect on recent trends and progress concerning traditional and sustainable rural aquaculture development;
Describe aquaculture practices occurring in semi-intensive static water ponds and multipurpose household ponds and consider prospects for sustainable development;
Review promising examples from current farmer practice and development projects that constitute an important element of the evidence-base concerning prospects for sustainable rural aquaculture;
Review strategies for integrated aquaculture–agriculture focusing on examples from Argentina and Vietnam and reflect on associated opportunities and threats;
Describe traditional practices of integrating aquaculture with rice farming and review recent innovations, notably gher (trenched rice fields) farming in Bangladesh;
Assess the potential roles of constructed wetlands in managing aquaculture wastewater and the relative merits of surface and sub-surface flow regimes;
Evaluate aquaculture development in irrigation and hydroelectric schemes;
Discuss prospects for culture-based fisheries and cage aquaculture development;
Describe promising coldwater and highland culture systems, threats to production including anticipated climate change impacts and discuss prospects for future development to promote social-economic development in highland areas.
