Trade assessment study
The region included in this study comprises 19 countries: Burundi, Comoros, DR Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. All countries, except Tanzania, are members of COMESA and the tripartite negotiation process for one large Free Trade Area (FTA) for 26 countries. Some countries belong also to other regional organizations such as the East African Community (EAC), the Inter-Gov ernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) with their own FTAs. Thus many sides have to be heard in trade related discussions. The fisheries sector is important to most of the countries in the region. As a group, the countries produce about 1.9 million tonnes of fish and seafood every year, representing about 23% of Africa’s total fishery production. Aquaculture plays a minor part in fish production, but is expected to become increasingly important as a sour ce of animal white protein for the region in the future. The most important product forms produced include frozen whole fish, dried fish and smoked fish. There is very little value-added production in the region, except for some production of canned tuna in Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar, frozen shrimp in Madagascar, and frozen Nile perch fillets in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.
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| Format: | Book (stand-alone) biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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FAO/IOC ;
2012
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/AZ112E http://www.fao.org/3/a-az112e.pdf |
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