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[[Image:finger ponds2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Nyangera fingerponds, Kenya. Photo: [http://www.unesco-iheactc.com.orgcn/Project-ActivitiesZh/Project-PortfolioNews/Finger-Ponds-Enhancing-the-Natural-Productivity-of-Wetlands-and-Floodplains Detail.aspx?id=470 UNESCO-IHE]]]__NOTOC__ <small-title />
Finger ponds use innovative techniques to enhance the natural productivity of wetlands and floodplains. The ponds (body of water smaller than a lake) consist of stretched artificial ponds 5 to 12 m long, extending into the wetland like fingers, hence the name. Finger ponds are excavated at the upstream edge of naturally occurring wetlands or floodplains and are lined with PVC plastic to prevent the water running out. They fill up during the flood cycle, and trap fish within them as the flooding recedes.
* Addition of manure and
* Increasing the vegationvegetation/water interface zones increases fish yields;
* Associated seasonal raised-bed agriculture for food production is cost-beneficial.
===Manuals, videos and links===
* [http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/images/watersmartagriculture_CGIAR_2015.pdf Water-Smart Agriculture in East Africa], a collaborative effort by [http://www.care.org/ CARE], [http://globalwaterinitiative.org/ GWI], [http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/ IWMI], and [http://www.cgiar.org/ CGIAR]. A 321-page sourcebook for improving water management for smallholder farmers.
* Lots more links on finger ponds, at [http://www.wetlands.org/SearchResults/tabid/38/Default.aspx?Search=finger+ponds Wetlands.org].
* [http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0444e/A0444E13.htm INTEGRATED POND AQUACULTURE IN LAKE VICTORIA WETLANDS]
* Roland Bailey, Rose Kaggwa, Julius Kipkemboi, and Hieromin Lamtane. [http://www.aquaculture.stir.ac.uk/public/aquanews/downloads/issue_32/32P9_10.pdf Fingerponds: An agrofish polyculture experiment in East Africa.]
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