Since 2017, the APDRA has put in place a Associative Project which details its mission, values and intervention principles.
Our vision
The association shares and follows with its members a vision of a world where:
- The small-scale farmers have a sustainable living out of their activity and have resources to further develop their production.
- The fish farmers and their families produce an animal protein that is accessible and of a quality enhancing the food safety on their territory.
- The development of fish farming lowers the pression on the halieutics ? stocks and participates to the increase of agricultural-system resources.
- A balanced cooperation exists between actors from South and North involved in the fish farming developments
- The fish farmers are a strong interprofessional organization, supported by local and national institutional politics, built on the principle of a network as diverse as possible, allowing autonomy, auto-governance and resilience.
Our missions
The association’s goal is to promote and develop a sustainable rural fish farming.
Its commits to:
- Increase and diversifies the resources of the family holdings
- Strengthens food safety
- Support professional organization representative of the interests of rural fish farming
- Defend and have the rural fish farming acknowledged
Our process
To fulfil this mission the association promotes a commercialized fish farming integrated into family holdings: the producer is using family work and the resources of the exploitation to produce a fish clearly destined to generate monetary benefits. This type of fish farming benefits from the mutualization of some production factors and of eco-systemic synergies. It has to be integrated in social dynamics to perpetuate and develop. The association also tries to stimulate and promote the activity via the relevant politic institutions. The fish farming promoted by the APDRA aims at being profitable and sustainable. It can be put in place by the producers using their own means. It wants to suit the fish farmers and their families who are in the middle of its development. The added value it generates has mainly local repercussions. The fish farming promoted by the APDRA aims to strengthens the adaptability abilities of the producer towards climate changes, and this whether in improving the water availability for other agricultural activities, in restoring the fertility of the soils in damaged environments or in reducing the polluting effect of cattle effluents or soiled water. |
Our values
To fulfill its mission, the association promotes three essential values:
Human element: The human factor is at the core of APDRA’s action, to improve the life conditions of the fish farmers and their family and to work in close collaboration with them with the goal to develop a fish farming model fitting their situation.
Autonomy: For the APDRA, the fish farmers have to be in a position to make their own choices, without depending on imposed system from the outside. Autonomy lowers the vulnerability and contributes to sustainability, another key value of the APDRA.
Sustainability: Fish farming developed by the APRDRA aims to be sustainable. This means reaching an balance guaranteeing at the same time an economic growth and the respect of the environment.
Intervention principles
The association acts daily in line with three intervention principles:
- Put the fish farmers, their activities and their families to the heart of the approach in taking into account the local context.
- Enhance and create a knowhow and practical exchanges within the proximity networks.
- Stimulate and accompany all forms of innovation without technologic or cultural preconception in a co-building and scientific validation approach.
