Earlier this year, we gathered professionals, researchers and students to share and discuss findings from the research at the aquaculture center CEPAQ.
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Norges Vel seeks to engage a consultancy firm for an external near-end review of our agriculture and aquaculture projects in Tanzania, Madagascar and Mozambique.
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GROW is a strategic partnership/network of Norwegian Non-Governmental Organisations that work to promote food security, climate adapted agriculture, resilience building, value chain development, strengthening of farmers’ organisation and vocational training within the small-holder agriculture sector in marginalised rural communities in developing countries.
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Anita Sæbø is appointed as director of international development at Norges Vel. She comes from the position as Senior Adviser in Norges Vels' International Department and will start in her new position on 1th of May.
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Norges Vel seeks to engage a consultancy firm with experience from the aquaculture sector for external mid-term review of the project “Scaling Up Profitable Aquaculture, Mozambique”.
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In the mining town of Majdanpek, heating with imported heavy oil has been replaced by renewable energy from locally produced wood chips.
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“There is a saying among the Macua people inNorthern Mozambique , that ‘’a single hand is never strong’’, hence the need to join them together to have more strength. Farmers, when joining cooperatives, find, says Natalino Barnete, Programme Manager in AMPCM”.
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It was a clear speech by a female small-scale farmer from the Mtu kazi group. The question was why, unlike most of their neighbours, they had made the choice to become shareholders in MTC.
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Despite corona-related challenges, tilapia farmers on Madagascar are enjoying extremely gratifying results. Already in 2020, they produced 14 metric tonnes of fish, four months ahead of schedule.
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The National Institute of Fisheries Research in co-operation with Norges Vel, continues the project of building a platform for aquaculture development in Mozambique at the Mozambican Aquaculture Research Centre, CEPAQ, (CEPAQ-Project).
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The Centre for Aquaculture Research (CEPAQ) in Mozambique started to deliver again fingerlings on the 5th of March after lockdown since November 2019. – It has been a very challenging period, and this is a milestone for all stakeholders involved, said Jose Ramos from Norges Vel.
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The involvement of women in our projects is of course about equal rights, but we want to first and foremost tell the story that it pays off, says Reinaart Pretorius, director for international development for Norges Vel’s international work.
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Along with the German development organisation GIZ, Norges Vel is in the process of establishing a new cooperative that already organises 50 fish farmers on the east coast of Madagascar.
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In 2019, with support from Norad (The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation), the Royal Norwegian Society for Development began a project to produce a preventative product called AflaSafe in Mozambique.
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The financing and organisation of small farmers into profitable, farmer-owned co-operatives will contribute both to the fight against hunger and to climate-friendly food production.
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“Seaweed farming will give me more money to build my house and buy things to eat. Fishing makes us some money, but not enough any more.”
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In 1978, Norges Vel started its international work in cooperation with the Norwegian cooperative organizations and with support from Norad.
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