Recently, the United Nations South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division, in cooperation with Member States, relevant United Nations agencies and other development partners, launched the “Good Practice in South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Sustainable Development -Volume 4”, which published the best practice cases carried out in developing countries that contribute to the achievement of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Two cases submitted by Freshwater Fisheries Research Center and supported by the United Nations Global South-South Development Center were successfully selected, namely the “Poverty Alleviation through Tilapia Industry Chain Development in Tanzania” undertaken and implemented in 2020-2021 and the “Technical Extension and Application of Sustainable Aquaculture in Namibia and Mozambique” undertaken in 2013-2014.
The “Poverty Alleviation through Tilapia Industry Chain Development in Tanzania” was implemented under the guidance of China International Center For Economic And Technological Exchange of the Ministry of Commerce. The Chinese project team has successively carried out research on Tanzania’s aquaculture industry, established Sino-Tanzanian fishery cooperative enterprise partnership, and compiled tilapia fish technology manual, trained fishery technician, trained fishery master scholars, and cooperated with Tanzania Zhongzhi Tilapia Base to guide tilapia breeding and aquaculture, and achieved the expected results.
During the implementation of the “Technical Extension and Application of Sustainable Aquaculture in Namibia and Mozambique”, FFRC expert team trained a total of 88 fishery technicians, researchers and fishermen for the two countries, distributed more than 600 relevant technical manuals, and went to many aquatic seed farms and aquaculture farms for on-site technical guidance, and donated water quality test boxes, microscopes, dissolved oxygen meters and other experimental equipment. This project has led the direction for the rapid development of the aquaculture industry in the two countries in recent years.
In recent years, FFRC, as FAO Reference Center for Aquaculture and Inland Fisheries Research and Training, and the China-Africa Joint Center for Modern Agrotechnology Exchange, Demonstration and Training, has long-term cooperated with the implementation of various South-South cooperation projects of the United Nations, and actively built the most trusted professional and technical support unit for international development cooperation in the field of fishery. Through multilateral and bilateral fishery technology exchanges and international development cooperation, FFRC will help achieve the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
