38 MARCH 2014 • WORLD AQUACULTURE • WWW.WAS.ORG (a) • Use of simple feeding trays to better evaluate and manage feed applications; • Improvements in harvest and handling techniques to enhance shelf life, food safety and traceability; and • Provision of practical methods for the use of fish farm effluents on vegetable crops. An excellent example of the type of detailed review and recommendations that are provided by AwF volunteers during this ongoing second Farmer-to-Farmer program can be found in the report of Woiwode (2013), which describes his visit to several private and university facilities in Kenya, mainly concerned with tilapia farming. The typical work of an AwF volunteer working in the Farmer-to-Farmer program is illustrated in Figure 12. Many other AwF-UoA Farmer-to-Farmer trip reports can be accessed from the ‘completed projects’ pages of the AwF website (www. aquaculturewithoutfrontiers.org). Conclusions From 2003 to 2012, AwF raised nearly US$450,000 to alleviate poverty in developing countries through small-scale aquaculture activities and its work was carried out in many locations around the world. Its resources consisted of donations (b) (a) (b) LEFT COLUMN, FIGURE 11. The work of an Aquaculture without Frontiers volunteer in Thailand. (a) Kevin Fitzsimmons describing how to construct bird netting canopy. (b) Red tilapia from cages in a shrimp pond (Photos: Kevin Fitzsimmons John Woiwode). RIGHT COLUMN, FIGURE 12. The work of an Aquaculture without Frontiers volunteer in Kenya. (a) Demonstration of a tilapia breeding hapa. (b) Plantain production on pond banks using fish pond water (Photos: Kevin Fitzsimmons).
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