6-7 December: Workshop on Food Safety and Market Access

The Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Management (AARM) FoS will hold workshop on “Food safety and market access for small-scale shrimp farmers” on 6-7 December 2007 at the AIT conference Center. The workshop is a planned activity of shrimp Farm BMPs project co-funded by the EU Thailand Economic Co-operation Small Projects Facility, and is being organized jointly with the Networks of Aquaculture Centers in Asia-Pacific (NACA), Bangkok. The project aims to build capacity of small-scale shrimp farmers through adaptation of best management practices (BMPs) to increase their participation in the EU export market.

This workshop is to discuss food safety issues related to the shrimp farm management practices and is expected to suggest strategies to facilitate export market access to the small-scale shrimp farmers. The workshops will focus on the recent changes undergoing in the world shrimp market and will discuss the capacity building needs to help small-scale farmers comply with consumer driven quality demand in the EU market. The workshop will also review and discuss implementation of the shrimp farm BMPs project and may provide recommendations to scale-up the activities and way forward to bring sustainability to the project. There will be a mixture of presentations, expert input, break-out sessions where Participants will be split into working groups, and brainstorming/discussions in plenary. There will be about 40 participants representing shrimp producers, processors, and exporters, government officials, researchers and academicians.

For more information on this workshop, please contact Dr. Dhirendra P. Thakur, Project Coordinator, AARM at thakur@ait.ac.th