Sustainablitiy
To ensure sustainability, partnerships must be forged with relevant communities, research innovators, public institutions, entrepreneurs, and investors to meet these challenges
This multidisciplinary and partnership based approach supports the development and implementation of innovations that optimize the individual and joint contributions of fisheries and aquaculture for stimulating agricultural trade, reducing poverty, improving food and nutrition security.
It ensures the feasibility of the ecosystem development thus creating end to end transactions by:
- Guaranteeing market for fresh and frozen fish
- Support for fish cooperatives and smallholder farmers
- Linkage with universities and research institutions
- Entrepreneurial skills acquisition
- Providing access to finance
- Women empowerment
Impact
- Food and nutrition security
- Improved livelihood for farmers
- More sustainable food production
- Stimulating local economies
- Driving industrialization
- Direct and indirect employment generation