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Improving Community Health-Nutrition Linkages in Malawi through Solar Energy Based Fish and Crop Integrated Value Chains. Subproject 1 (Ich liebe Fisch)
Project
Project code: 2813FSNU09
Contract period: 01.03.2016
- 30.09.2019
Budget: 857,628 Euro
Purpose of research: Networks and research co-ordination
Keywords: global food security, nutritional information / recommendation, aquaculture, food security, vegetable production, aquatic genetic resources, resource protection, resource efficiency, knowledge transfer, networking, integrated production systems, fish
The current project focuses on research and linking of several aspects along the value chain of sustainable aquaculture of Oreochromis karongae, a favored and high quality source of protein for human nutrition. In the context of these measures, an innovative linkage of fish and crop production in integrated aquatic systems (classical integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems, IAA and aquaponics) will allow enhanced productivity and thus an optimized nutritional and socio-economic status of smallholder farmers in rural areas of Malawi adopting these techniques. The approach of this project is manifold, such as to (a) enhance the production of the endemic fish species O. karongae by breeding and hybridization, (b) establish a specialized solar powered hatchery and optimize rearing protocols, in order to improve the supply of fingerlings for ongrowing farms, (c) use an IAA (aquaponics) system approach to integrate nutrient fluxes between animal and crop production, (d) implement training courses for local communities and smallholder farmers, thus ensuring capacity development and (e) monitor the changes in health status and food habits of local families and especially children and elderly after implementation of the IAA system to ensure a benefit for the whole community and (f) facilitate establishment of a community agriculture-nutrition-health linkage innovation platform and networking with relevant institutions to safeguard sustainability beyond the project life cycle.
Section overview
Subjects
- Freshwater fisheries
- Business administration
- Computer science
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Fraunhofer Research Institution for Marine Biotechnology (EMB)
