Aquaculture innovation system analysis of transition to sustainable intensification in shrimp farming

The shrimp sector has been one of the fastest growing agri-food systems in the last decades, but its growth has entailed negative social and environmental impacts. Sustainable intensification will require innovation in multiple elements of the shrimp production system and its value chain. The study focuses on the case of the shrimp sector in the Mekong Delta in Viet nam to explore the constraints inthe transition to sustainable intensification in shrimp farming, using an analytical framework based on innovation systems thinking, i.e., an aquaculture innovation systems framework. Using this framework, the paper conduct a systemic diagnostic ofblocking mechanisms, interrelated sets of constraints within the aquaculture sector that hinder a transition toward sustainable intensification