Group 4 draft

Group 4 draft

RUORUM / CTA WEB 2.0 TRAINING WORKSHOP

GROUP: SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

Improving food security through sustainable agriculture

Main theme: food security Almost all African traditional societies produced most of their own food, hence handling food security through availability. There were several varieties of all food types. However, with emergence of “development” concepts, many societies abandoned their traditional types for mass production of exotic varieties. The beginning was promising but subsequently the exotic varieties have not lived to their promise, many communities are impoverished and are food insecure.

Which aspects of food security: •	Availability •	Accessibility •	Utilization Fish farming and indigenous vegetables in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Quality and quantity of both the fish and indigenous vegetables

Collaborators •	Ministry of Agriculture in Kenya – on-going projects on orphan crops •	NGOs in Kenya, promoting small scale commercial fish farming •	Bunda college – aquaculture and horticulture - ongoing Goal To improve food security through the promotion of fish farming and production of indigenous vegetables

Purpose 1.	To increase production of fish and indigenous vegetables 2.	To promote effective utilization of fish and indigenous vegetables

Specific objectives – purpose 1 i)	To determine the species levels of small scale production of fish in the region ii)	To determine the types and levels of production of indigenous vegetables iii)	Increase the quality and quantity of fingerlings among small scale fish farmers in the region iv)	Increase the quality and quantity of fish among small scale fish farmers in the region v)	To promote the use of locally available materials in formulating quality and affordable fish feed vi)	To promote widespread production of indigenous vegetables

Specific objectives – purpose 2 i)	To establish the utilization patterns for fish and indigenous vegetables ii)	To enhance effective utilization of fish and indigenous vegetables by small scale farmers

Outputs Purpose 1 1.	Inventory of available fish species and indigenous vegetables in the region 2.	Increased quantity of viable fingerlings 3.	Increased quantity of table size fish 4.	Fish feed from locally available material formulated 5.	Increased production of indigenous vegetables

Purpose 2 1.	Inventory of utilization patterns of fish and indigenous vegetables 2.	Increased consumption of fish and indigenous vegetables 3.	Increased income from fish and indigenous vegetables

Outcomes 1.	Increased food and nutrition security 2.	Increased incomes 3.	Improved asset accumulation

Activities 1	Obectives. 1&2: Baseline study 2	Objective 3: •	Identify fingerling producers •	training needs assessment of fingerling producers •	Train the fingerling producers •	Facilitating the production of fingerlings •	Facilitating the marketing of fingerlings 3	Objective 4: •	Identify fish producers •	training needs assessment of fish producers •	Train the fish producers •	Facilitating the production of fish •	Facilitating the marketing of fish

Project management – organizational structure

Monitoring and evaluation

Sustainability

Work plan

Budget

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