Improving Food Security

The Role of Fisheries

Education and Training

Introduction

• International education – is not just foreign students to Canada, or Canadian students to overseas

• Knowledge and Skills Transfer- Canadian personnel help in development of DC institutions and personnel, including to improve socio-economic conditions

• Internationalization- students and faculty benefit from international experiences (research, curriculum, community development etc).

Session Objectives

• Address conference Track P (projects). Few presentations.

• Summarize contribution of MUN to DC poverty reduction/food security through fisheries education/training

• Concentrate on East Africa through DC presenters

MUN…..why fisheries?

• ECONOMY- historically fisheries/marine

• EXPERTISE- resulting in expertise, programs and technology at MUN (including its Marine Institute)

• COMMONALITY- development issues understood. NF once a ‘have-not’ province with similar fisheries/marine related issues.

Common Partnership Themes

EDUCATION-TRAINING• Graduate education- at MUN and in-country • Short courses- practical skills/knowledge transfer

AWARENESS RAISING • In the community: government, coastal peoples, schoools

• Improved communications: locally-developed media transfers information between stakeholders

GENDER

Specific women and children initiatives

MUN partnerships in Africa

• Zanzibar, Tanzania - University of Dar es Salaam, Institute of Marine Science “Fisheries Extension Resource Unit Development”

• Kenya - Moi University, “Fisheries Curricula and Rural Development”

• Tanzania- University of Dar es Salaam, “Sustaining Coastal Communities”

• Kenya- Moi University, “Sustaining Aquatic Resources for Food and Income”

MI partnerships in Africa

• Malawi- Malawi College of Fisheries-DoF, “Sustainable Fisheries for Food Security”

• Malawi- Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi, “Regional Aquaculture Development”

• Mozambique- National Institute for the Development of Small Scale Fisheries, “Poverty Reduction through Fisheries”

• Graduate Internships- Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, South Africa, Cameroon

Issues and Partnerships in East Africa, Presenters:

• Dr Rashid Tamatamah, PhD Waterloo, Head, Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, UDSM, TNZ.

• Dr Mucai Muchiri, PhD Leicester, Principal, Central Kenya Campus, Moi University, Kenya