Aquaculture must grow above the current rate of 11% per year to meet projected demand and reduce dependence on seafood imports. Government support and private investment are urgently needed for sustainable growth.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Relevant articles
Open Access articles citing this article.
-
A review of the current status of the water quality in the Nile water basin
Bulletin of the National Research Centre Open Access 18 March 2024
-
Acute hyperthermia and hypoxia tolerance of two improved strains of nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
Stress Biology Open Access 29 June 2023
Access options
Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals
Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription
$32.99 / 30 days
cancel any time
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 12 digital issues and online access to articles
$119.00 per year
only $9.92 per issue
Buy this article
- Purchase on SpringerLink
- Instant access to full article PDF
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
References
FishStatJ Datasets (2000–2019) (FAO, accessed 20 June 2021).
Musinguzi, L. et al. J. Great Lakes Res. 45, 1340–1347 (2019).
Chan, C. Y. et al. Glob. Food Secur. 20, 17–25 (2019).
Ragasa, C. et al. A Blue Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Ghana’s Tilapia Value Chain (IFPRI, 2018).
Clough, S. et al. Integr. Environ. Assess. Manag. 16, 934–941 (2020).
Obirikorang, K. et al. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.705549 (2021).
Tran, N. et al. Aquaculture 536, 736846 (2021).
Henriksson, P. et al. Aquaculture 468, 53–59 (2017).
Barria, A. et al. Heredity 127, 334–343 (2021).
Ramirez-Paredes, J. P. et al. Transbound. Emerg. Dis. 68, 1550–1563 (2021).
Jansen, M. D., Dong, H. T. & Mohan, C. V. Rev. Aquac. 1, 725–739 (2018).
Mugimba, K. K. et al. J. Fish. Dis. 41, 1181–1189 (2018).
Ssepuuya, G. et al. J. Insect. Food Feed 3, 289–302 (2017).
Verdegem, M. et al. Sustainable and Accessible Fish Feeds for Small-Scale Fish Farmers FISH-2021-06 (CGIAR FISH, 2021).
Dickson, M. et al. Aquaculture 465, 172–178 (2016).
Adoption of Fingerling Production Technologies transforms livelihoods in Kenya. Relief Web https://go.nature.com/3rFCj3Y (2021).
Ragasa, C. et al. Aquaculture 547, 737476 (2022).
WorldFish Nigeria Strategy 2018–2022 (WorldFish, 2018).
Takeshima, H. et al. Solar-Powered Cold-Storages and Sustainable Food System Transformation: Evidence from Horticulture Markets Interventions in Northeast Nigeria (IFPRI, 2021).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Ethics declarations
Competing interests
The authors declare no competing interests.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Ragasa, C., Charo-Karisa, H., Rurangwa, E. et al. Sustainable aquaculture development in sub-Saharan Africa. Nat Food 3, 92–94 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00467-1
Published:
Issue date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00467-1
This article is cited by
-
The status, challenges, and potential opportunities of fish seed production in Zambia
Aquaculture International (2025)
-
Bending the curve of land degradation to achieve global environmental goals
Nature (2025)
-
A review of the current status of the water quality in the Nile water basin
Bulletin of the National Research Centre (2024)
-
Using moringa (Moringa oleifera) seed protein hydrolysate as a dietary protein supplement modulates hemato-biochemical indices, antioxidant response, and tissue histo-morphology of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
Aquaculture International (2024)
-
Acute hyperthermia and hypoxia tolerance of two improved strains of nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
Stress Biology (2023)
