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BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM) 
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BENIN 2019. Pulling nets from sea 
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM)
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM) 
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM)
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM) 
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM)
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM) 
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM)
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM) 
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM)
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM) 
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM)
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM) 
BENIN 2024. Rural Invest and The Agricultural Development and Market Access Support Project (PADAAM)
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BENIN 1984. Improving techniques in fish-processing cooperatives 
Improving techniques in fish-processing cooperatives: Benin 1984
Fish has always been an important element in the Benin diet.
Yet national fish production has fallen by 30 percent over the last 10 years although the country’s population
grows by 2.8 percent annually. In the past decade too, the consumption of local fish products declined by half, increasing reliance on imports.
To reverse this trend, and work toward food self-sufficiency, the Benin government set up 30 fish processing cooperatives in 1980.
In Benin, women do the processing and marketing of the fish caught by their men. FAO has been working with these women, training them in improved production and
distribution techniques. Some of these women’s cooperatives have also branched out into other activities, such as selling general groceries or processing and selling coconuts and palm oil.
Women learning to write and count in the  cooperative at Ayiguinnou.
FAO photo by T.Fenyes 
09/14/2016 
Country or Territory Benin
Credit ©FAO photo 
UNFAO Source FAO Photo Library
File size 4.66 MB 
Unique ID UF12P79 
FAO. Editorial use only. Photo credit must be given. 
Background Information Fish has always been an important element in the Benin diet.
Yet national fish production has fallen by 30 percent over the last 10 years although the country's population grows by 2.8 percent annually. In the past decade too, the consumption of local fish products declined by half, increasing reliance on imports.

To reverse this trend, and work toward food self-sufficiency, the Benin government set up 30 fish processing cooperatives in 1980.
In Benin, women do the processing and marketing of the fish caught by their men. FAO has been working with these women, training them in improved production and
distribution techniques. Some of these women's cooperatives have also branched out into other activities, such as selling general groceries or processing and selling coconuts and palm oil.
Women learning to write and count in the  cooperative at Ayiguinnou.