CRSP SUCCESS STORIES: Ghana, Tanzania & Kenya Kwamena Quagrainie, Aloyce Kaliba, Charles Ngugi, Steve Amisah & Kajitanus Osewe

Activities - Survey 1. Cross-National Analysis of the Potential Economic Impact of Aquaculture in Africa  Kaliba, A.R., Osewe, K.O., Senkondo, E.M., Mnembuka, B.V., and Quagrainie, K.K. Economic Analysis of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niliticus) Production in Tanzania. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 37(4) 2006:  Papers on Ghana & Kenya under review

Activities - Training 2. Cost Evaluation and Benefit Assessment of Fish Farming in Selected African Nations  Followed the Kenyan model for training and developing aquaculture in Ghana and Tanzania

CRSP – Achievements 1. Established a Forum that brought together Fisheries staff Extension officers Fish farmers University Undergraduate and Post- graduate students in Fisheries and Aquaculture

CRSP – Achievements cont. 2. Opportunity for fisheries and extension staff to update their knowledge of the situation on the ground, through visits to fish farms during data collection and surveys. Constrain: transport and other logistical support and visits had been suspended.

CRSP –Achievements cont. 3. Brought farmers and potential fish farmers together to interact/learn what other farmers were doing and shared in their experiences and novel technologies – e.g. Induced spawning.

CRSP –Achievements cont. 4. Farmers learned to keep accurate Farm Records or improved on existing ones. 5. Farmers learned to compute various performance indicators; Revenue, Profits and Costs.

CRSP –Achievements cont. 6. Linkages established between CRSP, University, Fisheries Department (Ministry of Fisheries) and Fish Farmers. MOUs signed. CRSP is now a consortium of experts offering free technical advice to fish farmers and extension officers

CRSP –Achievements cont. 7. Manuals on Fish Farm Record Keeping, Benefit-Cost Analysis, produced and distributed to, at least, 85 farmers at no cost to farmers.

Acknowledgements  ACRSP/USAID for support and funding.  Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.  Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania  Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya  Ministries of Fisheries, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania.