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Prospects of fish supply-demand and its implications for food and nutrition security in Egypt

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  • Tran, Nhuong
  • Chu, Long
  • Chan, Chin Yee
  • Peart, Jeffrey
  • Nasr-Allah, Ahmed M.
  • Charo-Karisa, Harrison

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Aquaculture plays an increasingly important role in meeting the rising global demand for fish fuelled by economic and demographic growth. However, in many middle income countries, the growth of aquaculture is constrained by rising labor costs, limited input supply, environmental concerns, and infectious diseases. In this paper, we developed a multi species, multi sector equilibrium model and applied it to the fishery sector of Egypt, a leading aquaculture producer in Africa, to examine these barriers. Projection results show that rising wage rates would slow down the growth of labour-intensive aquaculture compared to those that use relatively less labour. The demand for feed, seed inputs and water use for aquaculture would substantially increase. The results also show that disease outbreaks would possibly affect production sectors via output reduction and also consumers via increases in fish price. Our findings suggest that stabilising the prices of feed and seed, investments in disease control and input use efficiency improvement technologies, including water use, are important while the overall effectiveness of tax instruments is modest. Though calibrated to Egypt, our approach can be applied to other middle size national aquaculture industries.

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  • Tran, Nhuong & Chu, Long & Chan, Chin Yee & Peart, Jeffrey & Nasr-Allah, Ahmed M. & Charo-Karisa, Harrison, 2022. "Prospects of fish supply-demand and its implications for food and nutrition security in Egypt," SocArXiv pbdkg, Center for Open Science.
  • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:pbdkg
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/pbdkg
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