Improvement of food, nutritional security and poverty reduction in Africa can be addressed through better integration of intra-regional fish trade into the nation-state policy agenda. Data crucial to the development of regional fish trade needs to be obtained. However, there is paucity of information on market structure, products and value of fish trade along regional borders in Africa.

Better integration of intra-regional fish trade into nation-state policy agenda is reported as a tool for improving food and nutritional security; and poverty reduction in Africa. However, critical information on market structure and value of intra-regional fish trade needed to ensure food security in the West African corridor are very limited. This study therefore investigated the marketing nodes and structure for fish trade along Nigeria-Cameroon-Chad border. Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Benue, Taraba, Adamawa and Borno States along Nigeria-Cameroon Chad border were selected for this study.

This study was conducted through an in-depth interview and literature analysis. A concise questionnaire was designed with the intention to obtain all primary information needed through the interview sessions. A stratified random sampling method was used to select farmers to interview. In total, seventy-three farmers from Lhokseumawe, and Northern and Eastern Aceh Regency were evaluated. Among these 73, 24 were traditional farmers cultivating L. vannamei and 34 cultivating P. monodon, while 15 farmed L. vannamei by applying the intensive technique.

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Raw household data from a 2013 survey, focusing on fishing and other livelihoods.

There is increasing awareness that integrating gender into development frameworks is critical for effective implementation of development strategies. In working to alleviate rural poverty, the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) recognizes that “business as usual” gender integration approaches will not deliver lasting and widespread improvements in agricultural productivity, poverty reduction and food security. In response, AAS operationalized a gender transformative approach.

Working with fishing communities in Barotse and Lake Chilwa, and other partners, the project will analyze fish value chains, including the differing roles of men and women, to understand how losses occur in fish volume, nutrient content, and economic value. The research team will then develop and pilot interventions to reduce these losses, while also addressing issues connected to gender and power. These interventions will include improved processing methods, such as parboiling, solar drying, and kilning.

Growth and water quality data collected systematically with farmers cultivating indigenous tilapia in earthen ponds in rural Zambia is non-existent. The lack of data is due in part because of inadequate human and financial resources but also the approach that many organizations use to implement and monitor and evaluate aquaculture activities in rural areas.

Since the 1980’s, tilapia aquaculture has expanded rapidly in Egypt, making it now Africa’s largest tilapia producer and the third largest in the world. In recent years, genetically improved Nile tilapia strains contributed important catalysts in these advancements. Providing superior growth rates and more efficient feed conversion, the release of the Abbassa strain in 2013 has since triggered an accelerated growth in national production. Despite this, concerns have been voiced over current trajectories of market development.

Egyptian aquaculture production has grown rapidly to over one million tons per year so that it now provides most of the country's fish supply.However, Egyptian fish farmers have received little extension advice or training. An intervention starting in 2012 aimed to address this gap by providing best management practice (BMP) training for pond based tilapia monoculture and tilapia-mullet polyculture fish farmers.