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Transaction Costs and Institutional Innovation: Sustainability of Tank Aquaculture in Sri Lanka

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  • Athula Senaratne

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    Freshwater community-based aquaculture was introduce to village irrigation tanks in the dry zones of Sri Lanka in order to off-set the limited supply of animal protein available to residents in inland areas. This paper examines transaction costs associated with the management of community-based aquaculture in Anuradhapura district, the most important inland fish production area in the country. The study suggests that sustainability of community-based aquaculture depends on successes in experimenting with institutional arrangements that can minimize transaction costs and achieve adequate returns to participants through productivity gains from tanks. [SANDEE Working Paper 18]

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    Paper provided by eSocialSciences in its series Working Papers with number id:839.

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    Keywords: Community-base aquaculture; transaction costs; farmer organizations; Agriculture; Economics;

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    1. Panabokke, C. R. & Sakthivadivel, R. & Weerasinghe, A. D., 2002. "Evolution, present status and issues concerning small tank systems in Sri Lanka [Small tanks in Sri Lanka: evolution, present status and issues]," IWMI Books, Reports H029980, International Water Management Institute.
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