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Aquacultureinafrica celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8. International Women’s Day 2020 focuses on the theme “An equal world is an enabled world”. Every year on 8 March, we celebrate International Women’s Day. On this day, we pause to recognize the contribution of women in our lives socially, economically, and …

By: Mushagalusa Namegabe Janvier, International institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). Democratic Republic Congo.  INTRODUCTION Aquaculture production in sub-Saharan Africa is potential for sustaining growth over the next two decades; hence, there is a need of identifying livestock systems that allow a margin for progress that can increase production significantly. Furthermore, …

Pan-Africa Policy Research Network for Fisheries & Aquaculture Concept Note for a Writers-shop to be held in Libreville, Gabon, from 13-16 November 2019. Background Gender inequalities limit fisheries and aquaculture productivity and sustainability and, in so doing, undermine development agendas of African Union. Consequently, the AU has prioritized gender issues. …

Aquaculture plays a key role in food security in developed and developing countries. Also, the development of aquaculture promotes the availability of fish for the population. Aquaculture helps create jobs, reduce poverty and promote food security. In fact, women in Mali have increased personal agricultural activities to fill the family’s …

Stockholm, Sweden. Current global hunger statistics are alarming: After a steady decline over the previous decade, the hunger is on the rise for the third year in a row, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Food security is closely linked to poverty, the two …

Due to popular demand kindly note that Zambia Aquaculture Cooperative Society will be hosting a site training/visit  at  Kafue fisheries on the 22 December 2018 , you pay k150 towards your transport and lunch to kafue come and learn with hands on  fish farming. Contact for more details call: +260 …

Introduction The first executive bureau meeting of the Africa Women Fish Processors and Traders Network (AWFISHNET) was held in Dar es Salaam Tanzania in July, 2018 with support from the African Union InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) within the provisions of the EU funded Fisheries Governance project. The objectives …

County, Kenya. Samuel Kiumbuku1, Jane Mutinda 2, Jeanne Bernard3 Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries: P.O Box 2169-30200, Kitale, Kenya. School of Environmental Studies, Kenyatta University, P.O Box 43844-00100, Nairobi, Kenya. School of Business, Kenyatta University, P.O Box 437-90100, Machakos, Kenya Abstract Fish farming being a sub-sector in agriculture has …

Empowering Smallholder Farmers In Fish, Poultry Farming Graduating trainees at the completion of a capacity building, empowerment in agriculture and other value chains for women and youths in the Niger Delta region organized by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, at The Polytechnic Ibadan recently.   The successful completion of …