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NIGERIA / IMPROVING LIVELIHOODS THROUGH AQUACULTURE

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Date 10/09/2023 1:06 PM

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Shotlist STORY: NIGERIA / IMPROVING LIVELIHOODS THROUGH AQUACULTURETRT: 3’39’’SOURCE: FAORESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT FAO ON SCREENLANGUAGE: ENGLISHDATELINE: ROME, ITALY 28 SEPTEMBER 2023 / RECENTSHOTLIST:DATELINE: 2 MAY 2023, IJEBU-ODE, NIGERIA1. Wide shot, workers in a catfish pond2. Med shot, woman collecting catfish from a net3. Med shot, catfish collection4. Tilt up, woman touching catfish5. Close up, catfish in a bucket6. Drone shot, catfish ponds in Ijebu-Ode7. Wide shot, a catfish pond8. Med shot, Nurudeen Qadri feeding catfish9. Close up, catfish scrambling for food10. SOUNDBITE (English), Nurudeen Qadri, Nigerian fish farmer, “It’s a very profitable business and that’s [this is] the only business I’m doing, and it gives me money to at least sustain myself and my family.”11. Wide shot, worker cutting catfish12. Med shot, catfish slices being cooked13. Wide shot, young boy and girl at an oven14. Med shot, smoked catfish sold in a market15. Close up, smoked catfish16. SOUNDBITE (English), Mary Stephens, fish processor and businesswoman, “We go to distribute fish [to Onitsha]. People travelling, even from London, some of them, come there and buy the goods from us.”17. Drone shot, farmer feeding catfish18. Drone shot, catfish ponds19. Drone shot, ponds in a rural area20. Drone shot, solar panels in a rural area21. Med shot, woman picks a catfish22. Med shot, woman empties a bucket filled with catfish23. Wide shot, woman at a catfish market24. Med shot, catfish in buckets25. Med shot, woman at a catfish market26. Med shot, catfish being sliced4 AUGUST 2023, ROME, ITALY27. Wide shot, FAO headquarters in Rome22 SEPTEMBER 2023, ROME, ITALY28. Med shot, FAO’s Gilles van de Walle looking at computer29. Pan right, FAO’s Gilles van de Walle looking at computer30. SOUNDBITE (English), FAO’s Gilles van de Walle, Chief Technical Adviser, FISH4ACP, “The current production levels are potentially 3 to 4 times higher than was previously thought. So potentially, we are talking about a really huge sector which would make the Nigerian catfish sector one of the largest in sub-Saharan Africa.”20 OCTOBER 2021, KARIBA, ZIMBABWE, LAKE HARVEST FISH FARM31. Med shot, boat in an aquaculture pond32. Med shot, fish in a cage eating33. Med shot, worker grading fish at “Lake Harvest” factory34. Close up, fish grading machine2 MAY 2023, IJEBU-ODE, NIGERIA35. Drone shot, catfish pond26-29 APRIL 2022, PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN PROVINCE, THAILAND36. Close up, shrimps in a fishing net28 SEPTEMBER 2023, ROME, ITALY37. Wide shot, FAO Assistant Director General Manuel Barange at his office38. Tilt dow, FAO Assistant Director General writing39. SOUNDBITE (English), Manuel Barange, Director of the Fisheries Aquaculture Division at FAO, “Aquaculture in particular is the fastest growing food production system around the world. In Zambia, for example, aquaculture has grown by a factor of 15 from the year 2000 to now. In Ecuador, is the same number, fifteen times. In Vietnam, is 10 times. So, that provides huge opportunities for people to get into the job market. Youth and women, in particular, are very important.”2 MAY 2023, IJEBU-ODE, NIGERIA40. Drone shot, catfish ponds41. Tit up, catfish processor 42. Med shot, catfish processor at work43. Med shot, catfish seller44. Close up, hands on a smoked catfish slice

Script In Nigeria, aquaculture is proving its extraordinary potential to create business and employment opportunities, including jobs for women and young people.Demand for aquatic foods has long been high here in Africa’s most populous country, where fish makes up 37 percent of people’s animal protein intake.A recent analysis of Nigeria’s catfish sector led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has shown just how important it is, estimating annual production value of the African catfish species at some USD 2.6 billion.Nurudeen Qadri, a 38-year-old fish farmer, runs a fish farm with ten ponds near Ijebu-Ode, in southwest Nigeria. With an annual production of nearly 50 tonnes, he says that farming catfish is the best bet for him.SOUNDBITE (English), Nurudeen Qadri, Nigerian fish farmer, “It’s a very profitable business and that’s [this is] the only business I’m doing, and it gives me money to at least sustain myself and my family.”High demand for one of Africa's most commercially important freshwater fish species benefits the whole catfish value chain. Processors use ovens to cook the slices of catfish and then sell them to customers in food markets. Mary Stephens and her husband sell their smoked catfish in Onitsha, a town by the Niger river.SOUNDBITE (English), Mary Stephens, fish processor and businesswoman, “We go to distribute fish [to Onitsha]. People travelling, even from London, some of them, come there and buy the goods from us.” Nigeria is already the world’s largest producer of the African catfish, but the overall amount of production could be even higher than officially reported, according to the value chain analysis by a joint fisheries and aquaculture development programme called FISH4ACP. This programme is a partnership of FAO with the European Union, the Government of Germany, and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS).FAO and its partners are helping Nigerian fish farmers professionalize the catfish sector. The goal is to improve productivity and competitiveness, expand business opportunities for women and youth, and make catfish farming more sustainable from a social, environmental and economic perspective.One of the early challenges of the project was assessing the actual size of Nigeria’s catfish production. The estimates signal that the country could have the largest aquaculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, says Gilles van de Walle, Chief Technical Adviser of FISH4ACP. SOUNDBITE (English), FAO’s Gilles van de Walle, Chief Technical Adviser, FISH4ACP, “The current production levels are potentially 3 to 4 times higher than was previously thought. So potentially, we are talking about a really huge sector which would make the Nigerian catfish sector one of the largest [aquaculture sectors] in Sub-Saharan Africa.”Global production of farmed aquatic animals in 2021 reached a record of almost 91 million tonnes — nearly half of the world’s total fisheries and aquaculture production.Manuel Barange, FAO Assistant Director General and Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, explains that aquaculture represents a huge opportunity for job creation, economic growth, and food and nutrition security worldwide. SOUNDBITE (English), Manuel Barange, Director of the Fisheries Aquaculture Division at FAO, “Aquaculture in particular is the fastest growing food production system around the world. In Zambia, for example, aquaculture has grown by a factor of 15 from the year 2000 to now. In Ecuador, is the same number, fifteen times. In Viet Nam, is 10 times. So, that provides huge opportunities for people to get into the job market. Youth and women, in particular, are very important.”Acquaculture is a good example of how water truly is food, and sustains life globally — as the theme for this year’s World Food Day reminds us.The consumption of aquatic food is growing at twice the rate of global population growth, according to Barange. Efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable aquatic food systems are crucial to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), he says.FISH4ACP programme has projects in twelve countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.

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