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Book (series)EAC Regional Strategy and Implementation Plan for sustainable Aquaculture Plan, Part 1. Arusha, Tanzania
GCP/RAF/466/EC SmartFish Project
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No results found.The context to the creation of an EAC Regional Strategy and Implementation Plan for the development of sustainable aquaculture is the following: • In 2012, aquaculture production in the EAC was between 30 to 40 000 mt. This does not include restocking programs or seaweed farming. The five-year target is to double that production figure, as well as meeting the demand for fish-feeds and raw material inputs; • overfishing of freshwater and marine (Kenya and Tanzania only) resources; • a rapidly gro wing human population; • a high level of formal unemployment; • a fifty-year history of well-intentioned development projects for small-scale fish farming that have yielded little long-term sustainability. The only exception being Kenya, which has, recently, successfully developed an aquaculture production of 15 000 – 19 000 metric tonnes (mt)/year. • The need within the EAC for a significant increase in production of fish in order to: • contribute to solving nutritional deficits; 3 4 5 • provid e employment through the production of fish, fish-feeds and the raw material inputs; • provide a stimulus to the wider rural economy; • a significant potential market for farmed fish within the fast developing middle-class in EAC. During a recent FAO/SmartFish/COI-EU mission to develop an EAC Regional Aquaculture Strategy, stakeholders, considering the rather limited capacity for action on the ground of EAC and its implementation arm LVFO, recommended that any regional aquaculture effort should be focused on commercial aquaculture value-chains that include semi-industrial and industrial producers, as well as clusters of smaller producers. The mission determined a number of key issues that must be addressed at the Regional level, and these are presented, in order of priority, as follows: • availability of seeds in the required quantity and certified quality; • availability of feeds in the required quantity and certified quality; • free movement throughout the EAC Region of fish, seed an d fish-feeds; • access to credit and revolving funds; • the organization and training along the aquaculture value chain; • creation of policy, legal and institutional frameworks; • delivery of research and sustainable management of aquaculture development; • capitalization on positive developments to boost production through Public Private Partnerships (PPP); • creation of a regional aquaculture Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) capacity that is linked with national equivalents. The Reg ion, in order to support the national level, should convince its five member states to develop a long-term, multi-donor support project that will help to implement the above points. -
Book (stand-alone)A Strategy for sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in the Volta Basin riparian countries’ post-harvest chains and regional trade 2016
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Fisheries and aquaculture are essential for food and nutrition security, employment, income generation and improved livelihoods. The Volta Basin provides a significant number of fisheries and fisheriesrelated jobs. However, operations face significant challenges including multifaceted issues, with inefficiencies at the upstream and downstream levels. In order to understand how to improve this situation sustainably, the NEPAD-FAO Fish Programme (NFFP) conducted pilot studies on postharvest fisher ies losses in the riparian countries of the Volta Basin. The main objective was to gauge the performance of the post-harvest chain by assessing the causes, nature, contextual patterns and extent of these losses within this shared waterbody. The NFFP thus developed the capacity of fisheries officers and fishers in carrying out loss assessments and in designing sustainable loss-reduction cost-effective interventions. This comprised building a sound understanding of fish losses and their intricate dimensions, including a knowledge-sharing gender analysis process, and generating lessons and elements for an informed strategy for sustainable reduction of post-harvest losses and greater regional trade in fishery products. This strategy was developed following the regional workshop “Improvement of post-harvest chains and regional trade in countries bordering the Volta Basin”, which took place from 18 to 20 February 2014 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, organized by the NEPAD Planning and Coordina ting Agency (NPCA) and FAO, through the NFFP with the support of the Directorate of Fisheries of Burkina Faso. This consultative meeting of stakeholders identified drivers and determinants of post-harvest fish losses and trade barriers in the Volta region. -
Book (stand-alone)Regional strategy and action plan for sustainable intensification of aquaculture in Asia-Pacific 2016
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No results found.This publication is the outcome of regional activity and the regional initiative on sustainable intensification of aquaculture for blue growth in Asia-Pacific so it contributes to the strategic objective 2. It will be important regional strategy document to support the concerted effort of member country governments and the regional /international organizations to support the sustainable growth of aquaculture in the region to contribute to food security, nutrition, and the livelihoods.
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