Tilapia aquaculture systems in Egypt: Characteristics, sustainability outcomes and entry points for sustainable aquatic food systems

• DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2023.739952
• Publication Date: 2023-07-30T13:47:05Z
• Authors: Cristiano M. Ross...; Timothy Manyise; Kelvin Mashisia S...; Ahmed M. Nasr-Allah; Eric Brako Dompreh; Patrik J.G. Henri...; Rodolfo Dam Lam; Denise Lozano Lazo; Nhuong Tran; Arjen Roem; Alaa Badr; Ashraf S. Sbaay; Roberta Moruzzo; Alexander Tilley; Harrison Charo-Ka...; Alexandros Gaspar...
• Keywords: Monoculture; Polyculture; Benchmarking

The future demand for fish and other aquatic foods requires the sustainable intensification of related production systems. However, policy investment decisions aquaculture systems are hindered by lack benchmarking data on their actual sustainability performance, which often result in poorly developed implemented interventions that ignore potential trade-offs. This is a reality many leading developing country producers like Egypt. In this study we analyzed farm-level from 402 Egypt, to characterize benchmark performance tilapia against key outcomes using combination ordinary least square regressions, simultaneous quantile regressions propensity score matching analytical techniques. We focussed how characteristics practices different intersect with economic, food security, environmental cover multiple dimensions sustainability. found differences these were significantly associated particular, our results show yields monoculture (10,460.5 ton/ha) higher than polyculture (8404.7 ton/ha). Furthermore, despite generally positive several studied systems, some trade-offs emerge both between within dimensions.