Fish Innovation Lab Awards Additional Project in Kenya

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish (Fish Innovation Lab) at Mississippi State University (MSU) has awarded approximately $500,000 to a new project aimed at helping solve hunger and improve ecosystems in coastal Kenya.

This new project, titled "Samaki Salama: Securing Small-Scale Fisheries in Kenya for Healthy Nutrition and Ecosystems," is led by Lora Iannotti, associate professor and associate dean for public health at Washington University in St. Louis, with partners at the University of Rhode Island, as well as Egerton University and Pwani University in Kenya. 

"With this project, we have awarded all thirteen of our major research-for-development projects, and we are looking forward to the results and findings they will produce," said Mark Lawrence, director of the Fish Innovation Lab and professor in the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine. 

More information about Samaki Salama and the other 12 new projects is available online.

As part of the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future program and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Fish Innovation Lab works to reduce poverty and improve nutrition, food security and livelihoods in developing countries by supporting research on sustainable aquaculture and fisheries systems.