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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetFAO and Korea International Cooperation Agency in partnership with Zanzibar Government transform mariculture sector 2020
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No results found.Farming of marine fish in Zanzibar has made a major leap forward following a successful establishment of a state of the art semi-commercial, multi-species marine hatchery financed by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) through technical support by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Korea-Zanzibar Friendship Hatchery Centre was recently handed over to the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar to boost the growing demand for marine fish species on the isles and beyond. The ‘Development of Mariculture Sector in Zanzibar’ project involved capacity building in aquaculture, construction and operation support of a semi-commercial hatchery, linkages to model grow-out farm support, aquaculture value-chain development, and a public-private partnership component. The project outputs aimed to support the development of an aquaculture sector that provides positive environmental, socio-economic and food security outcomes and recognizes the importance of a market driven enterprise associated research. This booklet aims to educate the public by summarizing the achievements recorded under the project with testimonies from some of the beneficiaries. -
DocumentInvesting in the livestock sector: Why Good Numbers Matter
A Sourcebook for Decision Makers on How to Improve Livestock Data
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This Sourcebook on livestock data summarizes the activities and outputs of the Livestock in Africa: Improving Data for Better Policies Project. It provides guidance to decision makers responsible to collect and analyze livestock data from differ¬ent perspectives on how to systematically address livestock data-related issues within the context of the national agri-cultural statistical system. In particular, it first develops the skeleton of a sound livestock statistical system, consistent with th e demand of livestock information by stakehold¬ers and the principles of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (World Bank, 2011) , which represents the foundation for producing good livestock data. It then presents a sample of methods and tools and associated examples designed to improve the quantity and quality of livestock data available to decision makers. These tools and methods target household and farm level data for example, trade data and the role of expert in formants to generate statistics are not dealt with in the Sourcebook and to a large extent have been tested in the context of the implementation of Living Standards Measurement Studies and small-scale data collection exercises in Niger, Tanzania and Uganda. They were jointly identified and developed based on dialogue between the Livestock in Africa: Improving Data for Better Policies Project and users and suppliers of livestock data and statistics at country level, including the Ministry respons ible for livestock development, the National Statistical Authority, and other national and pan-African public and private sector data stakeholders. As such, they address data issues which are of broad interest to livestock stakeholders: the 23rd session of the African Commission for Agricultural Statistics (AFCAS, December 2013) recommend¬ed country governments in the continent adopt some of the tools and methods presented in the following chapters to improve the quantity and quality of the live stock information available to decision makers. -
Book (stand-alone)Understanding diseases and control in seaweed farming in Zanzibar 2020
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No results found.In view of all production and productivity problems the seaweed aquaculture industry has been facing as well as the impact of the seaweed die-off on the Island economy with sharp decline of income and revenues for thousands of farmers and traders and, recognizing the compounded problems that about 20,000 seaweed farmers' livelihood are based on a single aquaculture system affecting mostly women and youth, the FAO-funded Technical Cooperation Programme “Support to the Aquaculture Subsector of Zanzibar” (TCP/URT/3401) recognized and recommended the Biological and Economic Research on Seaweed as a relevant pillar of the Aquaculture Development Strategy Plan. This technical report is part of the FAO-TZ project “Support to Seaweed Diseases and Die-off Understanding and Eradication in Zanzibar” TCP/URT/3601/C1, and covers an initial analysis of the die-offs due to epiphyte infestation and ice-ice disease in Zanzibar. The assessment is mainly based on site visits to the seaweed farms in Unguja and Pemba and laboratorial analysis of collected seaweed samples conducted by the authors between February and June 2017. Findings were cross-checked with a literature review on the topic and presented during stakeholders’ meetings in both Islands.
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