The consortium partners join hands to improve the aquaculture sector in East Africa by addressing the knowledge productivity gap in the value chain. The project will contribute to the local economy by creating employment and improving food security
With a focus on capacity-building across the aquaculture value chain, the newly launched Samaki Poa consortium will improve food security and provide practical and applicable expertise to empower the aquaculture sector in East Africa.
With a focus on capacity-building across the aquaculture value chain, the newly launched Samaki Poa consortium will improve food security and provide practical and applicable expertise to empower the aquaculture sector in East Africa.
Samaki Poa, meaning ‘cool’ or ‘awesome’ fish in Swahili, is an intercontinental cooperation between five stakeholders from East Africa and Europe, funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). The cooperation involves Blue Planet AS., Lake Harvest Group Pvt Ltd., Larive International B.V., Lattice Aquaculture Ltd., and Skretting/Tunga Nutrition.
Many graduates lack sufficient practical expertise directly after graduation. Similarly, farmers in the field also have limited resources available to them to find reliable information suited to the East African context. Typically, YouTube is the source of (unverified) information. Samaki Poa will change all this, filling the knowledge gap and providing the skillset critical for the future growth of fish farming in East Africa.
With the establishment of a new hatchery in Jinja, Uganda, and its vocational and digital training efforts Samaki Poa focuses to impact 7,500 households and create 1,250 jobs throughout the value chain in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.