The Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture and Nutrition Activity is a five-year award made by USAID to WorldFish in February 2018. Its aim is to sustain positive aquaculture sector growth in south-west Bangladesh and Resilience Focus Area of Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban districts under Chattogram Division through an inclusive market system approach.

It builds on the achievements of the six-year USAID Aquaculture for Income and Nutrition (AIN) project which saw livelihoods of smallscale fish farmers improve through increased production and quality of tilapia, carp, shrimp and prawn in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence (ZOI).

The Bangladesh Aquaculture and Nutrition Activity takes a market systems approach where the emphasis is on facilitation rather than direct implementation. Activity staff will identify critical underlying issues constraining the sector and encourage co-investment by private sector companies and NGOs through grants to address these issues. A key principle is to encourage capacity building in existing value chain actors rather than establishing unsustainable capacity that will disappear at the end of the Activity.

Objectives

The goal is to achieve inclusive aquaculture sector growth through a market system approach.

The specific objectives are:

1. Increased productivity of aquaculture production systems.

2. Strengthened aquaculture market systems, with particular attention to expanding opportunities for women and youth.

3. Increased awareness and adoption of nutrition-related behaviors, with a particular focus on women and youth.

Target

1. 400,000 men, women and youth in the Feed the Future ZOI have access to improved access to better quality aquaculture inputs, services, and/or market.

2. 30 percent expansion of investment by the private sector in the Feed the Future ZOI in aquaculture production and market related to inputs and services (seed, feed, production/ market related information, technology, etc.)

3. 30 percent increase in productivity from ponds and ghers in the Feed the Future ZOI

4. 20 percent increase in the number of households adopting improved nutritional practices (consumption of nutritious food, dietary diversity and hygiene practices)

Contact us

WorldFish Dr. Malcolm W. Dickson, Chief of Party and Country Director, Tel:+880-2 58813250 and 5887300 Email: wfbanaproject@cgiar.org