2. 4 issues
• Fish – trends and
opportunities
• Aquaculture innovation
• Taking a systems
approach
• Making it happen
through partnerships
Photo Mongu
fisher lady - switch
5. Growth in demand for fish (2007 – 2015)
Source: Cai (2011) Preliminary notes on forecasting the country’s future demand for fish.
6. Growing importance of aquaculture
• Growing gap between
demand and supply
o Most traded food
commodity
• Stable or declining
capture fisheries
• Rapid growth in
aquaculture
o 6% per year in past 5yrs
o 12 million Asian fish
farmers
Global fish production
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
year
milliontonnes
capture
culture
source: FAO
7. 7
African aquaculture lagging behind
Aquaculture
• 50% of global fish supply
• 16% of African fish supply
Production
Milliontonnes
1995 2000 2005 2010
2
4
6
10. Innovation – genetic improvement
Genetic gain in GIFT in Malaysia (>10% per generation)
11. Components Objectives
1. Fish and shrimp seed Dissemination of improved quality
lines of fish and shrimp seed
2.2. Household aquaculture Improving the nutrition and income
status of farm households
3.3. Commercial
aquaculture
Increasing investment,
employment and fish production
through commercial aquaculture
4. Institution and policy Support to regulatory reform and
institutional capacity building for
sustainable aquaculture growth
Innovation – systems improvement
14. Aquatic
Agricultural
Systems
Need to take a systems approach
to innovation
Major demand and opportunity in
Africa to harness the potential of
increased fish production
Opportunities and capacity to
innovate
Fish + Agriculture +
15. Rural poverty and AAS
Source: Bené & Teoh, in prep.
System Area
(km²)
People Living in
poverty
Africa –
freshwater
800,000 70m 43m
Africa –
coastal
300,000 12m 7m
18. AAS research agenda
• Sustainable increases in productivity – crops, fish,
livestock
• Improved access to markets
• Strengthened resilience and adaptive capacity
• Enhanced gender equality in access to and control
of resources and decision making
• Improved policies and institutions
• Scaling up (knowledge sharing and learning)
21. AAS – African Partnership – NEPAD; FARA
• Choosing where we work
• Knowledge, information and
technology systems
• Joint communications
• Building capacity
Four issues I will cover today: The global and African fish “picture” The importance and opportunities for innovation in fish production in Africa The importance of taking a systems approach Partnerships
Fish – the predominant ASF
Lowest totals for ASF, but highest proportions of fish consumption in Asia and Africa – with greatest scope for growth
No surprise then that the largest growth in demand for fish is in Asia and Africa
The growing global demand for fish has led to global growth in Aquaculture
But this growth has been slow in Africa
Egypt however is the exception – with growth from a few 1000 tonnes in the late 1980s to about 1m tonnes today. This shows that growth is possible.
Similarly in Ghana we’re now seeing a rapid rise in aquaculture production
A number of innovations have supported the global growth in aquaculture - and will do so in future. One of these is development of improved strains. WorldFish has led this with tilapias and this slide shows the genetic gain over several generations in Malaysia. The same thing is now being done in Ghana, Malawi and in Egypt.
This investment in genetics needs to be accompanied by investments in other areas of innovations. In Bangladesh WorldFish has been pursuing these with partners as part of the USAID Feed the Future initiative there – with very positive results.
The total value of additional sales at farm level reached US$ 92m in the past year
This value came from three main systems – two fully commercial and one homestead with a strong focus on women
Africa has extensive AAS with large numbers of people living there
They use diverse livelihoods – as shown from three systems in the Zambezi basin
Recognizing this complexity the CGIAR is taking a systems approach to agricultural research in these aquatic environments
In doing so we’re pursuing a research agenda that involves traditional CGIAR research on crop productivity – including fish, but also new innovative research on value chains, resilience and adaptive capacity, gender equality, policies and scaling.
As we do so we’ll try to foster synergies between CGIAR programs as we’re doing in Bangladesh already
Running through our science agenda we’re pursing a number of cross-cutting areas of innovation – see list. I’ll only highlight three – gender because without it we won’t engage seriously with the steps needed to make lasting progress; and partnerships and capacity development because they’re key to the meetings this week
Working especially with NEPAD, FARA and SROs. As we strengthen this, we’ll work with them to decide where we focus our work, develop common systems for knowledge sharing and learning, and work together to build capacity. As part of this work the side event on AAS has designed a FARA platform for innovation and capacity building in AAS.