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Category:UpdatesAquaculture without Frontiers is pleased to announce its program for World Aquaculture Adelaide 2014 (WAA14) which will be taking place at the new Adelaide Convention Centre between 7 & 11 June 2014.
A Silent Auction will be held during the period of the WAA14 Trade Show and that will be our main focus for promotion and fund raising during the event. AwF volunteers will be encouraging people and companies to bid on a range of products, services and vouchers which will be detailed just prior to the event.
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The session, Development, Welfare and Poverty Alleviation (AwF), has been sponsored by World Aquaculture Society (WAS) Premier Sponsor, Tyson Foods Inc., one of the world’s largest food suppliers as well as a leader in hunger and disaster relief. It will be held on Wednesday 11 June from 11.10am in Room 6 and will conclude with a meeting session before the ‘Goodbye Adelaide’ event at 5.30pm.
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The session has speakers from Nigeria, India, Brazil, Seychelles, USA, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Australia and promises to cover a myriad of issues and case studies across the continents.
Of course Brazil is very much in the spotlight this month so it good to see that we will have four presentations covering small scale fish farming, the development of producers co-ops, production of Native Oysters and an overview of aquatic solutions to hunger and malnutrition in that country.
Solutions to poverty alleviation do not necessarily have to focus on creating food but can be about jobs, livelihoods and hope and the Indian presentations will take us down this path.
All together it should be a fascinating session, as AwF sessions tend to be, highlighting how many good people there are trying to solve these monumental problems. AwF Executive Director, Roy Palmer, will conclude the program by updating people with the latest information on AwF, including the promotion of the new Corporate Social Responsibility platform, and will invite people to stay to have a general meeting where we discuss the future directions of AwF.
Everyone is invited to come along and be absorbed by the goodwill, listen to the amazing stories of aquaculture activities which are making a difference in the world, and then share their ideas and concepts before we all make our way to the final event at WAA14.
Development, Welfare and Poverty Alleviation (AwF)
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 11:10 – 17:20 Room 6
Chair: Roy Palmer, Patricia Moraes-Valenti
11:10 Nene Jamabo OVERVIEW OF FISH FARMING IN NIGERIA: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES, THE RIVERS STATE EXPERIENCE.
11:30 Aubrey Lesperance MARICULTURE DEVELOPMENT IN THE SEYCHELLES: CHALLENGES OF A SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATE
11:50 Manoel Pedroza NEW APPROACH IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCER ORGANIZATIONS: THE CASE OF SMALL-SCALE FISH FARMING IN BRAZIL
12:10 Manoel Pedroza ANALYSIS OF EFFECTS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC VARIABLES ON SMALL SCALE FISH FARMING IN THE STATE OF TOCANTINS, BRAZIL
14:00 Anna Mercy FINDING LIVELIHOOD THROUGH ORNAMENTAL FISH CULTURE – A SUCCESS STORY FROM KERALA, INDIA
14:20 Gleyn Bledsoe A ROLE FOR AQUACULTURE IN POST CONFLICT RECOVERY – SRI LANKA, REBUILDING AFTER A 27 YEAR WAR
14:40 Madhav K. Shrestha ROLE OF AwF TO INITIATE SMALL-SCALE AQUACULTURE IN MID-HILLS OF NEPAL
15:00 Patricia Moraes-Valenti “ALTERNATIVES TO IMPROVE THE PRODUCTION OF NATIVE OYSTERS REARING BY THE SLAVE DESCENDENTS (QUILOMBOLAS) FROM MANDIRA COMMUNITY IN BRAZIL”
15:20 Patricia Moraes-Valenti “AQUATIC RESOURCES IN ERADICATING HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION IN BRAZIL – PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES”
16:00 Amita Saxena FISERIES RESOURCES AND NURITIONAL SECURITY
16:20 Roy Palmer AwF- THE NEXT DECADE
Followed by
AwF General Meeting until 17.15 when we make our way to the ‘Goodbye Adelaide’ function