Best practices and guidelines to support commercial aquaculture enterprise development in Africa

Abstract

The guideline provides a summary of the constraints and solutions for African aquaculture value chain progression, and investigates a range of business models that can be applied towards achieving such progression. Each model is described and characterised in terms of strengths, weaknesses, applicability and suitability. The models include the subsistence farming model, scale based models (small, medium and large), ownership based models, value x African Union – Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources chain based models and multinational models. Within the ownership based models, the guidelines consider companies, aquaculture cooperatives, public private partnerships, state owned facilities and non-government and non-profit organisations.