Cost-effective aquaponic solutions for developing farmers in Rwanda.

在卢旺达，100多万希望提供营养蛋白质和植物性饮食，同时提高产量以支持经济增长的小农受到以下因素的限制：高产解决方案的资本成本高、基本农业技术、缺乏粮食安全和持续降雨、通往市场的途径很少，以及依赖其他解决方案的依赖陷阱。NjordFrey （NF）为这些农民提供了可持续设计的水培初级工具包，包括外种种植者模式、季节性投入产品线（如种子和鱼种）、独立操作培训，以及便利的市场路线。该项目与西苏格兰大学（UWS）合作开发了一个数字农场健康监测系统，该系统采用高科技后端（分布式传感和数据分析框架）和低技术前端方法（短信/语音呼叫），以包容的方式向农民反馈行动。这为NF提供了一种数据驱动的产品，以占领卢旺达的市场份额，消除了高昂的前期成本和技术壁垒，提高了有机农产品的产量，在10年内通过2000多个农场，使多达8万农民及其家庭的卡路里摄入量增加了28%，收入增加了4倍。通过这一模式解决营养不良问题以改善生计是卢旺达的创新之举。

In Rwanda, 1million+ smallholder farmers who wish to provide a nutritious protein and plant-based diet while increasing yields to support economic growth are limited by: high capital costs for high yield solutions, basic farming techniques, lack of food security and consistent rainfall, few routes to market, and a dependency trap reliant on other solutions. NjordFrey (NF), offers these farmers access to sustainably designed aquaponic starter kits via an outgrower model, seasonal input product lines (e.g. seeds & fingerlings), operational training to become independent, and facilitate routes to market. In collaboration with University of West of Scotland (UWS) this project develops a digital farm health monitoring system with a high-tech back end (distributed sensing and data analytics framework) with low-tech front end approach (sms/voice call) to feedback actions to farmers in an inclusive manner. This provides NF with a data driven product to capture market share in Rwanda,removes high up-front costs and technical barriers, provides increased yields of organic produce, increases calorie intake by 28% and income by 4-fold for up to 80,000 farmers and their families, via 2,000+ farms within 10 years. Tackling malnutrition to improve livelihoods through this model is an innovative first within Rwanda.