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The trip to the US for medical of three students of schools of Vicent Lucky has begun this time after a special promotion on flights of American Samaritan organization and will spend 20 hours to arrive in the country.

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generation. This has been recognised by multilateral organisations such as Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and by a number of countries in the East African region.
Recent studies by Wageningen UR confirm this potential (Rothuis et al. 2011 & 2012). It is also clear
that such a development cannot be seen independently from the regional context, in particular the
East African Community (EAC). Through the aquaculture value chain these countries are interlinked.
Not only is the end product (fish) traded from one country to another, also inputs are sourced within
the EAC depending on availability, price and quality. Therefore interventions in the aquaculture value
chain need to take a regional approach.
In June 2013, the FoodTechAfrica (FTA; www.foodtechafrica.com) project started. This project, partly
financed through the Dutch FDOV programme, aims to improve food security in East Africa through
the establishment of a fully integrated aquaculture value chain. FTA is a public-private initiative
combining the strengths of Dutch agro-food companies, knowledge institutes, governmental agencies
and their East-African counterparts. FTA offers an integrated approach for developing sustainable high
quality inputs (feed, fingerlings), productive yet sustainable farming methods and finally safe and
efficient processing and cooled logistics. FTA concentrates on the following four main activities:
1. Establish and improve fish feed production to improve the local availability of high quality feed;
2. Establish and improve primary production systems of fish offering local availability of consistent
volumes of reasonable quality fish;
3. Establish and improve processing of fish to increase added-value towards products, efficiently reutilize
waste products and increase food safety and transport, processing and cold-chain; and
4. Improve human resources and infrastructure (technical skills and support structure).
FTA is coordinated by Larive International and partners include Wageningen UR, Kenya Marine and
Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Fishion BV, The Roost, Nutreco, Almex BV, Dinnissen BV,
Holland Aqua BV, Ottevanger BV, VIQON BV, Unga Farm Care, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and the Royal Dutch Embassy in Nairobi. Local coordination of activities is executed by the local team
of Lattice Ltd, Partner of Larive International. FTA has a five year timeframe (2013-2018) and is
currently in phase 2.
Although FTA has a particular focus on Kenya, the project has a regional scope as its activities cannot
be viewed separate from the East-African context. Aquaculture activities in other EAC countries
(Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda) and South Sudan and Ethiopia need to be taken into
account, as only a regional approach can create the critical mass needed to bring about structural
change in the regionally interdependent fish value chain. This is also the case for the Eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which is more turned to the EAC market. For example, feed
producers will not invest in fish feed manufacturing as long as there is no sufficient demand for
aquaculture feeds, while entrepreneurs will not invest into aquaculture farms as long as there is no
fish feed available. This situation will persist as long as the critical number of farms and volumes of
fish have not surpassed a certain threshold level (critical mass). Sourcing demand and supply on a
regional rather than country level will be necessary. Businesses active in the aquaculture value chain
cannot exclusively base their investment decisions on the Kenyan situation only. Furthermore,
involvement at the government level is also required, for example to make agreements on
liberalization of trade across east Africa borders, and on independent feed quality control which is
something to be set up (by government) at a regional level
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