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The online event scheduled for 11 December takes place with one year left in the initiative and aims to make the case for further public and private investment in the aquaculture and other aquatic value sectors.
The virtual tour will showcase a series of success stories, analysing costs and benefits, summing up key lessons learned, and presenting the potential for use elsewhere. These cases highlight investments that have generated meaningful economic, social and environmental impact.
Participants will be taken to The Gambia, where a swimming programme enabled one hundred and twenty women oyster harvesters to overcome their fear of drowning, making the oyster sector a more attractive livelihood for other women. Attendees will also hear how efforts to bring finance and fish farmers closer together have helped increase domestic tilapia production in Côte d’Ivoire.
Hosted by FISH4ACP of the FAO, the virtual tour brings together value chain stakeholders, experts, donors and the development community in an online conversation on this important question: are aquatic value chains worth investing in?
The event will cover:
- Videos on a swimming program for women oyster harvesters in The Gambia and on bringing finance and fish farmers together in Côte d’Ivoire.
- A debate with experts and stakeholders on how to scale up interventions in aquatic value chain development.
- Discussions – actively engaging the audience – on mobilising resources for investment in aquatic value chains in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
Find out more about the event and register on the virtual tour page.
