Nutrient Diversity Through Tilapia Fish Farms

Nutrient Diversity Through Tilapia Fish Farms

In the German-Zambian student competition of the initiative Students4Kids in 2016 the Jury decided to reward two project teams for their outstanding ideas. Both projects, For Zambia by Zambians, which promotes the cultivation of fiber bananas to increase the variety of food, as well as Samaki, won a grant of € 10,000, funded by the Assmann‑Foundation for Prevention. The second one, Samaki, promotes the breeding, consumption and distribution of Tilapia in Zambia (1). At the Students4Kids-Summit in Berlin, Nils Namockel, a student from the RWTH Aachen, presented the concept of his team to the audience.

The Samaki idea is a solar-based, re-circulating fish tank, which has been developed by a student group of Enactus Aachen for developing countries (2). The fish tanks can help to rapidly improve the nutritional status of Zambian children and their families, through the efficient and pragmatic extension of fish supply. The selected fish species tilapia is considered robust and micronutrient-rich at the same time (3). Furthermore, Samaki already made good experiences with these types of fish farms in Tanzania, Uganda and Benin.

The project group will set up a website in order to inform the Zambian smallholder families about the construction and maintenance of these fish farms as well as the potential of fish-based, micronutrient-rich diets. Students4Kids will report on the progress of the project on this website and on Facebook (facebook.com/students4kids) at irregular intervals.

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(1) Samaki. Project submission. Link http://students4kids.org/blog/cause/samaki/

(2) Website Samaki. Link http://aachen.enactus.de/blog/projekte/samaki

(3) Sientific papers about tilapia http://www.feedipedia.org/search/node/tilapia

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