An interview with Natasja Sheriff from the WorldFish Centre
about the KSinR Pilot Project – ‘Applying KS tools to impact
monitoring and evaluation’ Human beings have survived through
adaptation. And for centuries people have come up with ingenious
ways of coping with environmental extremes. In some parts of the
world there is a dry season which is followed by not only a wet
season but by flooding. Where crops stood a few short weeks ago,
water now rolls and laps. What can a rice farmer do with this
situation? Sit by for the months while his land is covered and
simply wait for the season to end when he can plant crops again?
For most, struggling to get by, this is not an option. And so
they adapt- making use of the water and its resources; they turn
to fishing. This is the reality of the situation in the Mekong
region of southern Vietnam. But fishing is time consuming and
doesn’t always yield that much for each individual. Recognizing
this predicament, the WorldFish Center set up a project in 2005
entitled ‘Co