Animal Source Foods CRP: Ugandan and Egyptian value chains

malcolm beveridge

WORKSHOP

WorldFish Center, Penang18-22 July 2011

background

CRP 3.7 - goals

• increase production of affordable fish

increased consumption

better health outcomes among poor and vulnerable

– productive and profitable technologies that sustain ecosystem services

• increase employment and secure more equitable benefits throughout the value chain, especially for the poor and marginalized (women; youth)

CRP 3.7 – themes

• Technology Development

– delivers the productivity gains

• feeds; genetics; health; nutrition; environment

• Value Chain Development

– provides the demand-driven context for technologies

• partnerships; action research; capacity building; piloting interventions

• Targeting, Gender and Impact

– enables the processes and measures success

• governance; equitable share of benefits for women and vulnerable groups; monitoring and assessing impacts

integrated organic fish and horticulture farm, Egypt

how the themes link

value-chain research

platformresearch

Breeds

Feeds

Health

technology IPGs

process IPGs(action learning)

adaptive research

Nutrition

targeting

M & E

working with value chainsin the animal source foods CRP

value chain research - our approach

• focus on a few aquaculture value chains

– Egypt

– Uganda

• help develop so that they function better

– competitive; efficient; pro-poor; equitable benefits

• create development impact

– Learn how

– scale out; M&E

productioninputs

andservices

transportand

processingmarketing consumption

Uganda and aquaculture

August 2010

• Step 1: selection of value chains

• Step 2: mixed methods preliminary value chain analysis

• Step 3: preliminary identification of constraints and opportunities

Uganda - the aquaculture value chain

Inputs &

Services

Production

Transport&

Processing

Marketing

Inputs &

Services

Production

Transport&

Processing

Marketing

Inputs &

Services

Production

Transport&

Processing

Marketing

Inputs &

Services

Production

Transport&

Processing

Marketing

Seed Feed

Production

Step 3: semi-structured interviews

• what do the value chains look like and are they functioning well?

• where are the key constraints?

• are there barriers to women securing equitable employment benefits?

• does an increase in aquaculture production increase fish consumption by the poor and improve health?

• Step 4

• what interventions are most likely to deliver greatest impacts on poverty and hunger per sum invested?

Uganda – e.g. the seed value chain

Uganda – value chain development

August – December 2011

• with partners secured ASARECA* funding for more detailed VCA

– Steps 1-2: select and map VCs

– Step 3: identify market based solutions

• Step 4: assess market based solutions

January 2012 – March 2014

• Steps 5-6: implement interventions

• M & E

• refine approaches

* Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa

Uganda – value chain development

• funding is insufficient to match our objectives

• five grant proposals submitted

• more investment needed

– staff, expertise (VC)

– partnerships

– country presence

• review situation in 2012

source: http://livestockfish.wordpress.com/

Egyptian aquaculture

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1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Years

Tilapia

Carp

Mullet

Bass&Bream

2009

• 705,000 tonnes

• 15.4 kg fish person-1 y-1

1994

• 57,000 tonnes

• 8.5 kg fish person-1 y-1

• 75% of Africa’saquaculture

• employs 200,000 people

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Egypt – value chain development objectives

• produce more fish for the poor

• create employment for marginalized youth and women

Producers

Hatcheries

Feed

mills

Feed

retailers

TransportIce factories

Collection

auctions•Zawiya

•Damro

•Desouk

•Baltim

•Fewa

Wholesale

traders•Al-Obour

(Cairo)

•Alexandria

•Kafr el Sheikh

•Other

governorates

Retail •Fish shops

•Restaurants

•Local markets

•Supermarkets

•etc

Plastics factory Other services (telephone, food, etc)

Fertiliser

producers

TradersInput Suppliers

Direct and indirect aquaculture employment, Kafr el-Sheikh

source: Finegold et al. (2009)

Egypt – producing more fishn

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productivity t ha-1

• production increases must come largely from increased productivity - not from expanding farm area

how?

• better - more profitable -technologies

– seed, feed and water

• better management

• capacity building

Egypt – increasing employment

• expand production

– profitability

• more productive technologies

• better management

• new product lines; new markets

– better trained (youth; women)

– stronger organizations

– improved value chain governance

– enabling policy environment

Egypt - funding

• Mobilize $7.1 million for next three years

• internal

– IMC, STDF, ARDF

• external

– bilateral donors (USAID, EC)

fin