Jornal de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Aquicultura

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The Controverted Issue of Small-Scale Rural Aquaculture in the World Invitation to Debate

Luis Remedios Hernandez*

In the current context of third world aquaculture, not as much a topic has been debated as the one that refers to Small-Scale Rural Aquaculture (SSRA). Numerous forums, workshops, symposia, etc. They have been organized in different years and in any of the regions that FAO subdivides the world to deal with the fact of the emergence, development and generalization of a primary aquaculture, capable of feeding the dispossessed masses, which in increasing numbers suffer from undernourishment. Numerous brochures, manuals, guides and even books have been published to "teach how to do aquaculture at low cost". Without ruling out that this document constitutes one more in the long list of those that have preceded it, we intend here a little to "flesh out" in our personal judgment, the causes that have caused and are causing the inoperative programs to develop the SSRA, mainly in countries from Latin America and Africa.