Studying the impacts of fishmeal production in Africa
15/03/2021
In 2020, through the FAO’s EAF Nansen Program and Norad-funded project, ‘Empowering women in small-scale fisheries for sustainable food systems’, and in collaboration with WorldFish, a study was launched to assess the socio-economic and biological consequences of the fishmeal and other fish-based feeds industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study is set in Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Malawi and Uganda, and the results will be used to formulate preliminary policy recommendations and identify further research needs with regard to the development of the fishmeal and fish-based feed industry in West and East Africa.