Can environment management integrate into supply chain management? Information sharing via shrimp aquaculture cooperatives in northwestern Sri Lanka

This paper examines the effects of information sharing via community cooperatives on supply chain management (SCM) in community-based shrimp aquaculture in northwestern Sri Lanka. Further, it identifies how environment management integrates into SCM. The paper examined shrimp aquaculture operations...

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Published in:Marine policy 2016-06, Vol.68, p.187-194
Main Authors: Galappaththi, Eranga K., Kodithuwakku, Sarath S., Galappaththi, Iroshani M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aquaculture
Communities
Cooperatives
Decapoda
Farming
Information
Information commons
Management
Marine
Networks
Northwest
Penaeidae
Shrimp aquaculture
Shrimps
Sri Lanka
Supply chain management
Supply chains
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Summary:This paper examines the effects of information sharing via community cooperatives on supply chain management (SCM) in community-based shrimp aquaculture in northwestern Sri Lanka. Further, it identifies how environment management integrates into SCM. The paper examined shrimp aquaculture operations in northwestern Sri Lanka using the case study approach. Main actors of the shrimp aquaculture supply chain (SC) are: brood-stock suppliers; hatcheries; farmers; collectors; and processing companies. Information shared is: post-larvae prices; feed brands; harvest prices; production quotas; disease spread; farming techniques; and management practices. This paper explores the existing information sharing network. Its findings reveal that community cooperatives play crucial roles within this network while functioning under a mixed governance regime (private; communal; government). Membership gives farmers a mechanism for networking and accessing information. This article discusses how such information can act as commons. An efficient network of information sharing is vital for the community's socio-economic wellbeing, as well as social-ecological sustainability. Sri Lankan shrimp aquaculture exemplifies SCM that integrates environment and commons management. •Cooperative plays a vital role in sharing specific information in supply chains.•Community cooperatives are important for supply chain management (SCM).•Efficient network of information sharing can lead to socio-economic wellbeing.•Information has the potential to behave as commons (information commons).•Green SCM is possible by integrating the commons management approach.
ISSN:0308-597X
1872-9460
DOI:10.1016/j.marpol.2016.03.013