Education & academia

Professor Charles C Ngugi, founder of Mwea Aquafish Farm and one of the key players in the evolution of Kenya’s aquaculture sector, remains committed to training up a new generation of farmers, while also providing them with tilapia and catfish fingerlings. 

Recent trials in Thailand suggest that mixed-sex tilapia farming might offer a promising alternative to the cultivation of hormone-induced all-male fish, especially in cage farms in Africa.

Callum Mackenzie, co-founder and managing director of the non-profit Yunus Thailand, explains the organisation’s ambitions to develop a seaweed-based social business economy to solve both social and environmental challenges.