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Laying the Foundation for Climate-Resilient Aquaculture in Zambia

Aquaculture is an important part of Zambia’s national strategy to improve food security, alleviate rural poverty, and build a sustainable blue economy.

Ponds at the National Aquaculture Research and Development Centre in Kitwe, one of two sites where WorldFish and its partners are testing real-time water-quality monitoring to support more precise climate advisories for fish farmers. Photo: WorldFish.

Aquaculture is an important part of Zambia’s national strategy to improve food security, alleviate rural poverty, and build a sustainable blue economy. Zambia’s smallholder farmers, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) remain a growing part of the sector, helping close the country’s affordable animal protein deficit, even as they continue to face constraints in accessing finance, quality inputs and markets.

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