That moment when you find the snake that have being eating your livestock (chicken,goat, pig). So you decide to catch it and disgrace it in public.

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Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization (LVFO)

Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization (LVFO) has the mandate to harmonize, develop and adopt

conservation and management measures for the sustainable utilization of living resources of Lake

Victoria and facilitate the development of aquaculture. It implements fisheries co-management in the

Lake by legally empowering fisheries communities to undertake all levels of management in

collaboration with the national Governments. The organization also has the role of guiding, supporting

and implementing the building of the capacity of the riparian communities for ease participation in the

management process. In 2002, The Council of Ministers of the LVFO directed the Secretariat to

promote aquaculture in the Lake Victoria basin as a means of increasing fish production so as to

reduce pressure on wild stocks. This has raised awareness within the region though at a small pace.

Aquaculture being a relatively new enterprise in East Africa has so far been carried out at a

subsistence level. In addition to the potentially significant contribution to food security, it is also being

promoted as an activity that can create employment, generate foreign income and otherwise

contribute to the economic growth. The potential for aquaculture in the region is very high because of

large number of productive natural waters.

Recent initiatives by the organization have been:

• Reviewing the status of aquaculture in EA region and provision of guidance on development of

aquaculture in the basin through the Aquaculture Regional Working group ARWG).

• Through the EU funded IFMP project, assisted the ARWG to finalize the production of standard

operating procedures on aquaculture production of several publications.

• Through support by FAO the organization requested the assistance to strengthen the institutional

capacity of LVFO to guide and facilitate harmonised and sustainable development of aquaculture

around Lake Victoria.

• The LVFO has developed a regional strategy for aquaculture research and development in the Lake

Basin and is to source for funds for its implementation.

The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa

(ASARECA)

The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) was

established in 1994 by ten African member states of Eastern and Central Africa with the major

objective to develop policies and programs aimed at deepening co-operation in agriculture, livestock

and fisheries for the mutual benefit of all stakeholders. The Association aims at promoting regional

collective action in research for development, extension and training, for enhancing economic growth,

fight poverty, eradicate hunger and increase productivity.

The association has the overall goal of enhancing sustainable productivity, value added and

competitiveness of the sub- regional agricultural, livestock and fisheries systems. In collaboration with

Lake Victoria riparian states of East Africa i.e. Kenya Tanzania and Uganda ASARECA has implemented

a project “Building Public Private Sector Partnership to Enhance the Productivity and Competitiveness

of Aquaculture in the ECA Region” with the purpose to:

• Improve aquaculture technologies and market innovations.

• Improve policy options for aquaculture development.

• Strengthen capacity for gender responsive aquaculture research for development in the ECA region.

• Enhance access to information on aquaculture.

The project conducted a value chain baseline survey that collected basic information on selected

aquaculture value chains of Nile Tilapia Oreochromis niloticus and African catfish Clarias gariepinus.

The survey has provided a full range of information of all key chain participants of fish farming and

has formed the basis for interventions in the coming phase.

The Lake Victoria Research (VicRes) Initiative

The Lake Victoria Research (VicRes) Initiative is a regional collaborative-multidisciplinary research

programme of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA).

It was established in 2002 following consultations among scientists, senior administrators and other

experts drawn from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and, staff of Sida/SAREC. It is funded by the

Government of Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)

under the framework of the Lake Victoria Development Partnership (LVDP) Programme. VicRes

provides support to Universities and research institutions to undertake multi-disciplinary, gender

sensitive and regional research to enhance the scientific understanding of the poverty-environment

nexus through generation and dissemination of information and technological innovations. VicRes

awards research grants on a competitive basis open to researchers in universities, research

institutions and government agencies in the East African Community (EAC) Partner States. The

programme is implemented through a regional coordination office located in IUCEA secretariat in

Kampala, Uganda.

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Pig industry sustains livelihoods of many families in Kenya. Pig rearing has been one of wellestablishedindustry in Kenya following growing export markets and increasing number of health conscious consumers. Pig production if efficiently managed has great potentials for increasing protein supply in Kenya. Smallholder pig farms in Tharaka-Nithi County have been facing varying and dismal profits. The main objective of this study will be to establish which institutional arrangements and management factors affect the profit efficiency of small-holder pig farmers in Tharaka-Nithi County. A multi-stage purposive sampling technique will be adopted to collect cross sectional data of eighty (80) smallholder pig farmers in Maara Constituency by the use of semi-structured interview schedules. The work will employ Data Envelopment Analysis to come up with profit efficiency rankings among the farmers and stochastic frontier profit function will be used to analyze the factors that affect profit efficiency. The data will be processed using STATA and DEA Frontier packages. The findings could be useful to the stakeholders of the pig industry sub sector to formulate policies pertaining to pig enterprise inputs, marketing issues and financial products and also can establish benchmarks which can be used as a package for enhancing and stabilizing profit efficiencies of smallholder pig farmers which in turn could help improve the Kenya economy. An Overview of Livestock Sub-sector in Kenya Perspectives, Opportunities and Innovations for Market Access for Market Access for Pastoral Producers Recent statistics point that the livestock sub-sector in Kenya accounts for approximately 10% of the National Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is 30% of the agricultural GDP. It employs about 50% of the national agricultural workforce and about 90% of the ASAL workforce. 95% of ASAL household income comes from this sub-sector. This is despite the fact that the sector receives only 1 % of the total annual budget allocation. The livestock resource base is estimated at 60 million units comprising of 29 million indigenous and exotic chicken, 10 million beef cattle, 3 million dairy and dairy crosses, 9 million goats, 7 million sheep, 0.8 mi camels, 0.52 mi donkeys and 0.3 million pigs. (Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA) 2003) Kenya is broadly self-sufficient in most livestock products but is a net importer of red meat mostly inform of on-the-hoof animals trekked across the porous boundaries of neighbouring countries- Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Livestock supply in Kenya results from a complex set of interactions between Kenya and its neighbours and the traditional Middle East market and their respective livestock populations, demand and market prices. Kenya is part of a regional market where livestock flow according to markets and price differentials in a liberalized system throughout the region as a whole and where Nairobi represents a focus of demand for the region Supply of red-meat from domestic cattle, shoats and camels falls short of demand, and is almost permanently augmented by a traditional livestock trade drawn in from neighbouring countries, especially Somalia, Tanzania, Sudan and Ethiopia in varying quantities according to demand, which maintains a supply/demand [1.6MB]SIJAAMINI WEMA SEPETU ANACHOKIFAYA HAPO KWENYE HII VIDEO BOFYA UONE