Aquaculture (the farming of aquatic organisms ,including fish, molluscs, aquatic plants and other aquatic products) in sub-Saharan Africa has good potential due to increasing demand for fish and other aquatic products, the decline in marine and freshwater fisheries, favourable natural conditions for fish farming and the availability of relatively low-priced land and labour. The development of aquaculture in sub-Saharan Africa has received much policy and donor attention over the past 30 years, but generally the results have been disappointing.

Please find below a series of nine guidelines on different urban agriculture themes. The series is available on the Web sites of the Urban Management Program (www.pgualc.org) and IDRC (www.idrc.ca). This work was coordinated and financed by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), of Canada, the Urban Management Program for Latin America and the Caribbean (PGU-ALC/UN-HABITAT) in Ecuador, and IPES, Promotion of Sustainable Development, Peru.

This is a series of 5 Policy Briefs produced under the EU funded PAPUSSA (Production in Aquatic Peri-urban Systems in Southeast Asia) project, a collaborative reserach project of European organisations and Asian partners in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Phnom Penh in Cambodia, and Bangkok in Thailand (www.papussa.org). Elaboration: Marielle Dubbeling, ETC Urban Agriculture (m.dubbeling@etcnl.nl); language editing: William Lesschen; Graphic design: Zonacuario, Quito, Ecuador.

By Rene van Veenhuizen (ETC Urban Agriculture) and George Danso (IWMI Ghana), Agricultural Management, Marketing and Finance Occasional Paper 19, FAO, 2007.