Promoting Sustainable Smallholder Aquaculture Productivity Through Landscape and Seascape Aquapark Models: A Case Study of Busia County, Kenya

The dwindling capture fisheries has triggered an increase in Kenya's annual fish demand deficit, currently estimated at 553,000 MT. With the adoption of sustainable policies, aquaculture can bridge and surpass this deficit. farming environment is however characterized by its highly fragmented production farms, which limit dynamism technical change needed to commercialize aquaculture. global trend commercialization food through consolidation farmlands. For example, most farms United States America were also once small, but because policy land consolidation, farmlands average 1,000 acres. Over past decade, much Sub-Saharan African nations are experiencing a rise 5–100 hectares except Kenya, where laws have exacerbated situation. Amid declining agricultural productivity, farm-level efficiency security problems, fragmentation emerging as key question Kenya single largest bottleneck, growth Busia. A paradigm shift development will enable aggregated under tenure. This study discusses need remodel current uncoordinated cluster-based smallholder strategy adopting hybrid aquapark concept. In concept, aquaparks established managed specialized management service provision units linked adjacent clusters with community-based coordination support framework. further gives application socioeconomic experiences pilot concept Busia County. model coupled deliberate establishment aquaculture-enabling infrastructure enhanced efficiency, profitability, productivity production. realization community-owned large-scale offers window for necessary tenure system.