Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
07 August 2024
Post No. 364
The Week’s Contents
• Trend Analysis Month with Summer 2024 Triple Pack Made of Track, Trending and Trip
• Activity/Task 8 of the Transition (‘t’) Year and Project: Run or Walk with or Visit the People in Need Making Transition
• Goal of the Month: Reduction of Mineral Poverty
… And much more!
Key Messages
• Trend Analysis Month with Summer 2024 Triple Pack Made of Track, Trending and Trip
Last month, we carried out the historical analysis of the programmes, projects and activities we ran during the financial year 2023-2024. Having this historical analysis in our mind set, we can now start looking at patterns and highlights. To do that, we are going to approach August month as a Trend Analysis Month with a focus on Triple Pack Made of Track, Trending and Trip.
• • August as a Trend Analysis Month
After dealing with the Impact Analytics and Data Insights for the 2023-2024 Programmes, Projects and Activities in July 2024; we are now undertaking Trend Analysis this August 2024. This is because August is the month we conduct trend analysis on our work. In other words, we are now using and will be using the results of the 2023-2024 Impact Analytics and Data Insights to carry out Trend Analysis.
Trend analysis has to be understood and defined in a technical way. Trend analysis can be approached in many ways. One of its approaches comes from ‘ideascale.com’ (1) which defines it as
“A statistical and analytical technique used to evaluate and identify patterns, trends, or changes in data over time. It involves the examination of historical data to uncover insights into the direction or tendencies of a particular phenomenon”.
By referring to this definition, we are going to systematically examine historical data to identify patterns, tendencies, or changes over 2023-2024 and the previous financial years. Using the key performance indicators or metrics, CENFACS trend analysts are going to capture the essence of the trends they are investigating.
• • August as the Month of Focus on Track, Trending and Trip
August is also the month we focus on CENFACS’ Track, Trending and Trip. What do we mean by that? We mean that we are on the track of poverty reduction, we walk to meet those in need and we follow the direction of poverty reduction. Let us briefly explain these key concepts or activities of the month making our triple pack (i.e., track, trending and trip).
• • • On the Track of Poverty Reduction
We are on the Track of poverty reduction as we are looking for relief for ourselves and other people. We do Track at CENFACS as we think that every one of us can undertake basic physical activity of running or racing to help reduce poverty. In this process of tracking, we also try to reduce or eliminate poverty due to being on the wrong side of the tracks.
To basically run or race, one does not need to be part of field event. For those who cannot in-person run, they can do it virtually or online. Our project known as Run to Reduce Poverty is designed to meet that end.
This Summer, we are going to do Tracking while taking into account the treble context of lingering impacts of the cost of living crisis, extreme temperatures and the damaging effects of the other polycrises.
• • • Trips or Walks to CENFACS’ Projects
August is also the month during which we carry out some Trips to our projects. We visit our projects all over the year, but August is the time we highlight this. We do a short journey to one of the places in need. It is the month of the year we walk again and reach out to the need, to the people, communities, organisations and livelihoods in need.
This Summer, we are going to undertake both Virtual or In-person Trips depending on the circumstances prone to the rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the other polycrises. We can work alone or use our social network or social wayfinding or even social trail.
• • • Trendy Development
We thirdly deal with Trending in August as we spend time looking at what is popular at CENFACS in the context of poverty reduction as well as what is the current general movement or tendency in poverty reduction. This is what we can call Trendy Development; that is a development process following the latest fashions in terms of poverty reduction.
Trending in Poverty Reduction helps us to follow the direction of poverty reduction. This August we are going to follow this direction or tendency of poverty (or poverty reduction) via aquatic foods. In other words, we are going to find out how aquatic food systems and sector are helping in lifting people out of poverty.
What are aquatics foods? According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (2),
“Aquatic foods are all foods for human consumption grown in, or harvested from, water. They include foods from all types of algae and aquatic animals (fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic animals, with the exception of aquatic mammals and reptiles)” (p. 220)
Aquatic foods help to reduce poverty and can even lift more people out of poverty. We are interested in the specific benefits of Aquatic Foods to poverty reduction. We are going to follow this direction in-person. Where we have problem to follow it in-person, we shall do it via online, video, phone, screen and digital technological means of communication and on papers (print).
More details about Trend Analysis Month and CENFACS’ Track, Trending and Trips for this year are given under the Main Development section of this post.
• Activity/Task 8 of the Transition (‘t’) Year and Project: Run or Walk with or Visit the People in Need Making Transition
As part of CENFACS’ Transition Year and Project, the activity or task to be carried out for this month is to undertake the physical activity of running or walking with the people in need. In the process of running and/or walking, one can try to positively support their transition strategies as they are transitioning out of poverty.
Alternatively, one can in-person visit the people in need and try to discover the barriers to transition they are facing and discuss with them the types of solutions they would like to be put in place.
Briefly, one can Run or Walk with or Visit the people in need while these people are undergoing or navigating the 3 stages of transition through change, which are accept the ending, live in the neutral zone and reach your new beginning.
The following examples can help illustrate these activities.
• • Examples of August 2024 Transition Activities
To put into practice CENFACS’ Transitions Year and Project and of the month of Track, Trip and Trending; one can proceed with either of the following Transition Activities:
• • • Transition Activity 8.1: Safely and Healthily Run 2.5 miles (nearly 4 km) with people in need to create user-generated information giving opportunity while talking to them during the run and supporting them to improve their coping strategies for their good wellness
• • • Transition Activity 8.2: Undertake Virtual or In-person Visits or Tours of 3 Transition projects or activities; projects or activities based on transition facts, information and skills acquired through experience or education, and which use transition methodology and tools to support people this Summer 2024
• • • Transition Activity 8.3: Carry out online search to find 6 Trends in poverty reduction for projects that are helping people to transition out of poverty.
The above three examples of Transition-based Activities are our way of linking our ‘t’ Year/Project and the month of Trend Analysis as well as of Track, Trip and Trending together.
These run, walk and visit can also be done virtually if there are problems to conduct them in-person.
The above if the activity or task for the ‘t’ Year/Project for those who are interested in carrying it out. For those who want any clarification of any aspects of the activity or task, they can contact CENFACS.
• Goal of the Month: Reduction of Mineral Poverty
This month, we are also interested in mineral poverty and how to reduce it. What is mineral poverty?
• • Basic Understanding of Mineral Poverty
Mineral poverty is understood from the definition of D. M. Frank et al. (3) as
“A state of mineral insecurity associated with poverty. Mineral poverty may limit access to vital infrastructure and services such as housing, transport and energy, and is interconnected with the other material dimensions of poverty”.
The same D. M. Frank et al. explain that
“Mineral security exists when all people have sufficient and affordable access to the minerals necessary for human development, including for shelter, mobility, communication, energy and sustenance. Mineral security also implies access to the beneficiation and transformation necessary to turn minerals into usable commodities”.
These understandings of mineral and mineral security can have some implications for our work on poverty reduction in the month of Trend Analysis and the Season of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness.
• • Reduction of Mineral Poverty in the Month of Trend Analysis and the Season of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness
If we consider the loose definition of mineral, not its geological meaning (that is a solid naturally occurring inorganic substance with a definite chemical composition), it is possible to argue that those who struggle to have access to substance obtained by mining such as fossil fuels (e.g., coal, natural gas and petroleum) may experience some difficulties to reduce poverty if this substance is the only means they have available, affordable and accessible. They can experience poverty linked to the inaccessibility to this substance, even though the global climate community would like them to transition away from fossil fuels.
So, providing security to mineral or any substance obtained by mining can help to reduce poverty. However, for this reduction to happen the benefits of this security have to be directed to the poor or those in need.
The above is our poverty reduction goal for this month, which we are asking to our audiences and supporters to help or promote.
Extra Messages
• Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Journal 2024, Creative Activity No. 3: Create Your Journal of Happy, Healthy and Good Life Expectancy
• Impact Capture and Record Your Summer Telling Moments to Report Back and Build Forward
• CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum E-discusses This Question: Are Energy Transition Minerals the Keys to Poverty Reduction in Africa?
• Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Journal 2024, Creative Activity No. 3: Create Your Journal of Happy, Healthy and Good Life Expectancy
To create a Summer Journal of Happy, Healthy and Good Life Expectancy, one may need to understand what is a happy, healthy and good life expectancy.
• • Understanding Happy, Healthy and Good Life Expectancy
Happiness can be associated with longer life. According to the psychologist and epidemiologist Andrew Steptoe quoted by Helen Fields (4),
“The research shows that good moods are correlated with long life, but it is not proof that happiness makes people live longer… People’s life circumstances are also relevant”.
One can use the association that Steptoe made between happiness and longer life to create their journal of Happy Life Expectancy.
As to healthy life expectancy, the website ‘verywellhealth.com’ (5) explains that
“Healthy life expectancy is indicative of years of wellness, not total years of life. Health-adjusted life expectancy is the average number of years that a person can expect to live in full health – that is, not hampered by disability illnesses or injuries. Commonly referred to as healthy life expectancy, it is a measurement used by the World Health Organisation in assessing the health and well-being of a country”.
One can refer to the definition of healthy life expectancy to write a journal of healthy life expectancy (or disability-free life expectancy).
Regarding a good life expectancy, the website ‘britannica.com’ (6) states that
“It is the average number of years a person is expected to live in good health or without disability, given current age-specific mortality rates and disease and disability prevalence rates”.
One can apply the view of ‘britannica.com’ on good life expectancy and create a journal of good life expectancy.
In one’s journal, one can write things like the types of steps they can take to increase their years in good health, such as carrying out regular physical exercise, eating more plant-based foods, keeping routine doctor appointments, etc. They can as well use reliable statistics to check their life expectancy calculation (e.g., via life expectancy calculator).
One can even go further in combining happiness, healthiness and wellness to create an all-in-one journal about them. To do that one needs to understand factors determining life expectancy.
• • Factors Determining Life Expectancy
Amongst these factors are socio-economic status, lifestyle, ethnicity, migrant status and education. One can use one or a combination of these factors and write a journal on how the selected factor(s) is/are contributing to their happiness, healthiness and wellness, therefore to their life expectancy this Summer 2024.
So, as part of Summer of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness, one can create a journal for the things that and people who are bringing or have brought expectation of living a happy, healthy and good life during this Summer 2024.
• • Impact Capturing and Reporting Your Thoughts, Feelings, Souvenirs and Memories about Life Expectancy
They can impact capture and record their thoughts, feelings, experiences, souvenirs and memories in relation to their life expectancy or the expectation of it. They can share with the community their experience of happy, healthy and good life expectancy. This can be recorded in their journal and be shared by the end of Summer 2024.
To share the contents of their happiness, healthiness and wellness journal relating to happy, healthy and good life expectancy, and help build a better Summer holiday experience, they can contact CENFACS.
• Impact Capture and Record Your Summer Telling Moments to Report Back and Build Forward
Whether one has a Summer break or is working over this Summer, it is always a good idea to impact capture and record your memorable moments or just what you are doing.
• • Impact Capture and Record Your Summer Telling Moments as They Happen
Capture and record Summer activities (e.g., engagement activities where the people in your experience are engaged) that can lead to impact. You can look for impact when capturing and recording your Summer moments.
However, impact can be difficult to track, in particular for those who do not have experience for impact capturing and recording. You can keep track of the people who are participating in your Summer experiences.
For those who are not familiar with impact capturing and recording, they can take these basic actions:
∝ Look for different types of impact
∝ Use various leads and mediums of finding and mapping impact
∝ Appeal to indicators for impact
∝ Refer to impact capturing and recording tools
∝ Decide what you need to track for your impact
etc.
These basic actions will enable them to create an impact record.
After Summer, we often ask our project beneficiaries or the community to impact report their Summer experience back. If you impact record what you are doing this Summer, after Summer it will be easier to share what you may judge is a shareable part of your Summer experience or story.
• • Do not Forget to Take Photos and Pictures, Make a Video, Record Your Voice, Podcast, etc.!
If you decide to impact capture and record your Summer activities or experiences, please do not forget to take photos and pictures, make a video, record your voice, podcast, etc. It is also useful to write down dates, places and names of people involved in your Summer projects or experiences. You can plan the way you want to impact report back, whether you want to use words or numbers or voices or information graphics (e.g. tables or graphs, figures, etc.).
Before including people around you in your recorded experience, please take care of General Data Protection Regulations. This extra care will help to protect yourself and others. If necessary, please check the policy on handling people’s information and data, including update on this policy.
• • Impact Reporting Back Your Summer Experiences to Build Forward Better Together
Impact reporting back your experiences can sometimes inspire others, especially if your experiences contain poverty-relieving features or outcomes. Sometimes what you may think is not important in your life experience could be very useful or even life-saving for others in the community. Your experiences could help to build forward better together cleaner, greener, inclusively, safer and climate-resilience.
We hope you will seriously take our message of impact capturing and recording to impact report back and build forward better together.
Thank you!
• CENFACS’ be.Africa Forum E-discusses This Question: Are Energy Transition Minerals the Keys to Poverty Reduction in Africa?
This e-discussion is the continuation of the one we had in April 2024, which was on Energy Transition Minerals and Poverty in Africa. We are dealing with energy transition minerals since they are needed for energy transition to happen.
Indeed, the narratives that shape the role of minerals in development and poverty reduction are that energy transition are needed to move to net zero world and to reduce poverty in Africa. If these minerals are required for transition, are they also the keys to poverty reduction in Africa. To discuss if they are keys or not to poverty reduction in Africa, it is better to understand them.
• • Brief Understanding of Energy Transition Minerals
The United Nations Environment Programme (7) explains that
“Energy transition minerals are naturally occurring substances, often found in rocks, that are ideal for use in renewable technology… Lithium, nickel and cobalt are components of batteries, like those that power electric vehicles”.
These minerals of energy transition can fasten energy transition. They are technological innovations developed to support energy transition. They include cobalt, copper, lanthanum, lithium, for electric vehicles; platinum, palladium, rhodium for fuel cells; copper, neodymium, terbium for wind energy transitions, etc.
They are found in many countries including Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, if these minerals are important for energy transition, does this also mean they are the keys to poverty reduction in Africa?
• • Energy Transition Minerals as Keys to Poverty Reduction in Africa
The word ‘key’ here has to be understood as something that provides an answer or solution, a means of achievement, according to Chambers’ Combined Dictionary Thesaurus (8). In other words, these minerals can be an answer to the success of poverty reduction in Africa. However, for minerals to be an answer, there are other conditions that need to be put in place for energy transitions play their role of poverty reduction in Africa.
During our e-discussion, we shall try to answer to the above made question while exploring the enabling conditions and circumstances that will enable energy transition minerals to play their role in poverty reduction. There is a need to investigate and discuss the conditions and circumstances that make or will make energy transition minerals as the keys to poverty reduction in Africa.
Those who may be interested in this discussion can join in and or contribute by contacting CENFACS’ be.Africa, which is a forum for discussion on matters and themes of poverty reduction and sustainable development in Africa and which acts on behalf of its members in making proposals or ideas for actions for a better Africa. They can contact us at our usual address on this site.
Message in French (Message en français)
• Projets de l’Appel Humanitaire de l’Été 2024
Les projets d’appel humanitaire de l’été 2024 résument les besoins de tous les pauvres, des enfants pauvres, des jeunes aidants et des familles qui ont besoin de votre don, de votre financement ou même de votre influence.
Tous les enfants pauvres et sans protection, les jeunes aidants sous-évalués et les pauvres souffrant du manque d’opportunités en matière de développement du sport et de développement durable; ils demandent tous de l’aide pour réduire ou mettre fin au type de pauvreté qu’ils vivent.
Leurs demandes sont résumées dans l’édition 2024 des Projets d’Appel Humanitaire d’Été duCENFACS.
Les projets à l’origine de cet appel sont les suivants:
√ Couvrir les dépenses de base pour les enfants en détresse en Afrique
√ Tous les dons pour tous les pauvres
√ Réseautage et protection international contre les crises
√ Jeune aidant emblématique
√ ELCLASSICO International ou le projet de responsable du développement sportif.
Les cinq projets ci-dessus nécessitent des dons, des financements ou de l’influence.
Ceux/celles qui souhaitent soutenir les bénéficiaires mentionnés ci-dessus peuvent donner de l’argent et/ou donner en nature ou leur influence.
N’oubliez pas que cette campagne de collecte de fonds et d’influence pour eux se terminera le 22 septembre 2024.
Le CENFACS acceptera tout soutien apporté pendant et au-delà de la durée de cette campagne.
S’il vous plaît, n’attendez pas pour faire un don ou influencer car les besoins sont pressants et urgents MAINTENANT.
Pour soutenir ou vous renseigner sur ces projets d’appel humanitaire, veuillez contacter le CENFACS.
Nous nous réjouissons de votre généreux soutien pour faire une différence utile pour tous les pauvres, les enfants pauvres, les jeunes aidants et les familles dans le besoin en Afrique.
Merci de votre générosité.
Main Development
• Trend Analysis Month with Summer 2024 Triple Pack Made of Track, Trending and Trip
Our systematic examination of historical data that shaped our 2023-2024 programmes, projects and activities is taking place as we are trying to identify patterns, tendencies, or changes from them. While we are doing this, we are focussing on our thematic model of Summer of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness through the three activities of…
1) TRACK to help reduce poverty
2) Virtual or In-person TRIPS to projects and locals
3) TRENDING in poverty reduction by following the direction of poverty reduction via aquatic foods.
The following headings provide the contents summaries of the Trend Analysis and the above-mentioned activities of the month making our triple pack (i.e., track, trending and trip):
∝ Trend Analysis Month 2024
∝ Track, Trip and Trending 2024 Activities
∝ August 2024 Trending Activities/Programme
∝ In Focus from Wednesday 07/08/2024: Aquatic Foods and Their Affordability for Low-income Households.
Let us uncover what is inside these headings.
• • Trend Analysis Month 2024
Our August 2024 trend analysis consists of tracking data for the services we provided during the financial year 2023-2024 to identify seasonal trends or changes in project beneficiaries’ preferences. It is also about examining historical poverty reduction rates where our Africa-based Sister Organisations operate to discover trends and understand the improvement made in the conditions of those living in poverty there.
During this analysis, we shall use metrics (like performance against mission, growth of our services, opt-in growth, user happiness, impact, giving methods of donors, business basics, etc.). We will look at trends from supporters, users and beneficiaries. We will measure services, project beneficiaries’ and users’ perception. We will check that we are meeting our targets, programme outcomes and stakeholder/volunteer engagement. We shall examine that we are keeping supporters, beneficiaries and users informed and engaged in CENFACS‘ work.
Based on the 2023-2024 and past performance or behaviour of our charitable work, we can make informed decisions and predictions.
• • Track, Trip and Trending 2024 Activities
• • • Track to Help Reduce Poverty
This is delivered through the project Run to Reduce Poverty, Gaming to Reduce Poverty and Vote Your African Manager of Poverty Reduction. These are All Year-Round Projects or Triple Value Initiatives.
However, because of the weather conditions (sunshine) and nature of August (holiday time for many of our project beneficiaries and supporters) we put a particular emphasis on the Run aspects of these all year-round projects, over this month. One can do physical run out and indoor while bearing in mind the lingering effects of the health risk and rising temperatures.
We expect those who sign up to the Run element to take actions and run it by themselves while following to letter any health and safety rules (e.g. Protection against the lingering effects of any health risk) relating to this element. After summer or at any convenient time before the end of the year, they can all report back our individual Run activity and achievements.
• • • Virtual or In-person TRIPS to Projects and Locals
This is the second aspect of our Summer 2024 Triple Pack or part of work over the month of August at CENFACS. We expect and advise our supporters to visit some of our projects and initiatives whether in the UK or in Africa during and around the month of August.
For those who cannot in-person or physically visit projects on the grounds, arrangements can be made between the prospective visitors and the organisations to be visited so that they can organise a virtual trip, tour or viewing.
This requires that the visitors and visiting organisations have the technology that enables this virtual tour to happen. If this is possible, we expect and advise our supporters to virtually visit some of projects and initiatives whether in the UK or in Africa during and around the month of August.
a) Visits to Projects/Initiatives within the UK
Trip to the needs or Visit this year will help to see how events such as extreme temperatures, the polycrises and the high costs of living have affected local people and local needs. During the Visit, we shall have the opportunity to see in real life how these people are strategically coping to manage these events.
b) Trips to Projects/Initiatives in Africa
Trip to the need and project includes some of the experiences undertaken by CENFACS’ All-in-Development Volunteers through field work involvements and project visits, to reach out to unreached, underserved and unserved people and communities, particularly those living in remote areas of Africa. It is the kind of experiences or expeditions or study tours that we recommend to future invertebrate and vertebrate volunteers to have and report back in September or after. When reporting back, they can evaluate and assess the effectiveness of field trips.
These trip activities, which can be in-person or virtual, also help us to check if we are on the right track at helping to reduce poverty and at tracking our records for the work on the ground.
Because the theme of trending for this Summer is about Aquatic Foods, we are going to link Trip to the need on the ground in terms of what services aquatic foods and sector provide to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development.
• • • TRENDING in Poverty Reduction by Following the Direction of Poverty Reduction via Aquatic Foods
Sustainable development does not need to be trendy, but we can follow the latest fashions in sustainable development and poverty reduction.
This August, we are dealing with Trending in poverty reduction by following the direction of poverty reduction via Aquatic Foods and Sector and their capacity in lifting people out poverty. We mean by that we are following the direction of poverty reduction via aquatic foods.
In order to make sense of our trending activity, let us briefly explain aquatic foods and their relationship with poverty reduction.
• • • • Basic Understanding of Aquatic Foods
What are aquatics foods?
Aquatic foods are defined by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (op. cit.) as
“All foods for human consumption grown in, or harvested from, water. They include foods from all types of algae and aquatic animals (fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic animals, with the exception of aquatic mammals and reptiles)” (p. 220)
This understanding will help to study the direction of poverty reduction via aquatic foods and sector, including the relationship of aquatic foods to poverty reduction and sustainable development.
• • • • Relationship between Aquatic Foods and food poverty reduction
There is a relationship between aquatic foods and poverty reduction. Indeed, poverty which is defined by ‘worldpopulationreview.com’ (9) as “a state of being in which a person lacks the income (or other means of support) to reliably meet their basic personal needs, such as food, shelter, and clothing” can be reduced by aquatic foods.
To be more precise, let us use the definition of food poverty. According to the ‘commonslibrary.parliament.uk’ (10),
“A household can broadly be defined as experiencing food poverty or household food insecurity if they cannot (or are uncertain about whether they can) acquire an adequate quality or sufficient quantity of food in socially acceptable ways”.
Aquatic foods can help bring down the number or percentage of the population or households living below the food poverty line.
For example, in Africa there are millions of people who rely on aquatic foods for their daily meal and diet. If these peoples are poor, then one could argue that aquatic foods help them to move away from food poverty.
• • August 2024 Trending Activities or Programme
August 2024 Trending Activities or Programme will be about following the direction of poverty reduction via aquatic foods by focussing on four variables as follows:
1) The price (affordability of aquatic foods)
2) The environment (low-climate impact of aquatic foods)
3) The consumption (aquatic food and consumption poverty reduction)
4) The technology/production (low-cost technology to produce aquatic foods).
The above four variables are also the four directions we would like to take to follow poverty reduction.
To follow them, we need a plan.
• • • August 2024 Working Plan about Aquatic Foods
The above-crafted table summarises our August 2024 plan of work from every Wednesday of August 2024. The focus for the first direction of poverty reduction which starts from today Wednesday 07/08/2024 is given below.
• • In Focus from Wednesday 07/08/2024: Aquatic Foods and Their Affordability for Low-income Households
The first focus of 2024 Summer trending activities is about following the direction of poverty reduction via the price of aquatic foods. In other words, we are going to follow the price of aquatic foods and their affordability for low-income households. To do that, we are going to deal with fisheries and aquaculture prices and the properties of aquatic foods in terms of their affordability, availability and accessibility for the same households.
• • • Fisheries and aquaculture prices
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (op. cit.),
“Fisheries and aquaculture prices declined in 2023 and are expected to continue falling slightly in both nominal and real terms until 2025-2027 before then increasing” (p. 215 & p. 217)
The outcomes from the same Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations’ projections are:
“Prices are expected to grow moderately in nominal terms from 2022 to 2032, driven on the demand side by improved income, population growth and higher meat prices. Prices of farmed aquatic species will increase owing to higher fish meal and fish oil prices” (p. 217)
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations further concludes that prices are expected to decline in real terms, even thought they will increase in nominal terms.
It is possible to find more information about aquatic foods and see if they are affordable for low-income households.
• • • Affordability, availability and accessibility of aquatic foods
Many people cannot afford a healthy diet. However, because of the properties of aquatic foods of being affordable, available and accessible; they can be alternative to rely on.
If one takes the affordability feature of aquatic foods, it is a matter of fact that fish is relatively affordable for low-income households, especially for those of them looking for affordable healthy diets. Canned tunas are affordable proteins that are convenient for preparation and storage.
If aquatic foods are affordable, they need to be available (that is, ready to be obtained or used) and accessible (i.e., able to be reached easily) for those low-income households that have made them their staples of choice. If they are not, this could be an area of interest in following the direction of poverty reduction.
• • • Following the Direction of Poverty Reduction via Aquatic Foods and Their Affordability for Low-income Households
From the price history and projections of aquatic foods, one can follow the evolution or trends of a particular area and of a specific aquatic food product for a certain period. They can as well check whether or not this product is affordable, available and accessible for low-income households.
Equally, one can follow the direction of the two other properties of aquatic foods to find out if they are available and accessible. There are many ways of finding out this information which include:
√ Visiting projects
√ Speaking to households in the community
√ Researching information online
√ Participating in research on this matter
etc.
Briefly, it is possible to observe or follow the journey of prices of aquatic foods and check how they are affordable and helping to reduce poverty. In this observation and journey, it is better to consider aquatic products as they come from the water. This way, one can better seize their impact on poverty reduction and on the food poor people.
The above is our trending work from Wednesday 07 to 13/08/2024; work which has already started.
To follow with us the direction of poverty reduction via aquatic foods, please contact CENFACS.
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• References
(1) https://ideascale.com/blog/what-is-trend-analysis/ (accessed in August 2024)
(2) FAO. 2024. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture. 2024. Blue Transformation in action. Rome
(3) Frank, D. M., Keenan, J. & Hailu, D. Mineral security essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Nat Sustain 6, 21-27 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00967-9 (accessed in August 2024)
(4) https://www.science.org/content/article/happiness-associated-longer-life (accessed in August 2024)
(5) https://www.verywellhealth.com/understanding-healthy-life-expectancy-2223919 (accessed in August 2024)
(6) https://www.britannica.com/science/life-expectncy (accessed in August 2024)
(7) https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/what-are-energy-transition-minerals-and-how-can-they-unlock-clean-energy-age (accessed in April 2024)
(8) Chambers’ Combined Dictionary Thesaurus, edited by Manser, M. & Thomson, M., Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd 1999
(9) https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poverty-rate-by-country (accessed in August 2024)
(10) https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9209/ (accessed in August 2024)
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