Seaweeds In Dar Es Salaam

 Our Vision

Improved healthy living and income generation through increased seaweed

consumption locally for women smallholders seaweed farmers in Tanzania.

These twelve SDGs are also steps toward ocean restoring biodiversity, global energy

security, and storing carbon-from-air. The macroalgae is destined to become biofuel.

Seaweed Farming towards regenerative red seaweed supply.

Seaweed contributes to the economy of the country. In Zanzibar, for example, the

seaweed industry is the 3rd foreign money earner, after tourism and the clove trade,

and it forms over 90% of Zanzibar's marine export products.

There are two types of macroalgae, microalgae, ( Eucheuma and Kappaphycus)and

seagrasses.

In the 1990s Dr Thomas Goreau met two Tanzanian marine Biologists, Dr. Keto Mshigeni and

Dr. Adelaida Semeisi, who had pioneered seaweed mariculture and marine science in Tanzania,

and they planned to do Biorock projects there. Unfortunately, Dr. Mshigeni left to head the

University of Namibia, and Dr. Semeisi died. The seaweed mariculture efforts they started, led

by Dr. Flower Msuya, have developed women’s seaweed farming cooperatives in Zanzibar that

have expanded to the mainland and to Mafia Island. These seaweed farms are now threatened

by global warming, causing seaweeds to die in hot shallow water (Msuya, 2022).

Their long-term viability will depend on villagers protecting and managing their mangroves and

finding new sustainable sources of income. Sixtyfive women in Kigamboni make their living

digging up fossil corals from deforested mangrove areas, smashing them with hammers into

gravel they sell as aggregate for concrete for an income of about $1 a day. If they are banned

from digging the degraded mangrove subsoil, and have no alternatives, their families face

starvation. Local environmentalist Fiona Barreto, a Project developer Advisor for Leadership

Alliance Sustainable Development Goals is a non-governmental organization Reg 4931

LASDGs is helping develop reforestation projects in the hope that villagers can earn the

anticipated carbon credits for the forests they grow, and produce bee honey, oysters and crabs

for sale. Together with CRDB bank, the Green Environmental Protection Project Fund focuses

on the physical and mental health of women and children through community based capacity

building workshops.

Now, 30 years later, Tanzanian community development groups and marine resource managers,

organized by Fiona Barreto together with Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute and LASDGS

youth groups (Good Morning Mikoko Ujamaa ,Jitihada, Jitegemee) and funded by African

Malaika are planning Biorock training workshops for coastal fishing communities and marine

park managers in coral, mangrove, seagrass, and fisheries habitat regeneration, and to apply

Biorock to mixed seaweed, fish, lobster, and giant clam mariculture with local groups in

Zanzibar, Mafia, and the coast between Dar es Salaam and the Rufiji Delta.

Besides mariculture, fisheries, mangrove , seagrass and algae (seaweeds) Blue Carbon

projects to remove and store CO2, Biorock has many potential applications in local architecture

to grow harder and cheaper building materials in the sea to replace buildings made from dead

corals or polluting concrete.

Farming seaweeds in deeper and cooler water is possible, but these can’t be tended by wading

at low tide, requiring boats and swimming where Mtu chake group was successful in their pilot

phase. The Mtu Chake group has invested in large-scale breeding of EUCHEUMA (Mwani) in

the shallow waters of Kigamboni, Tanzania.

Seaweeds form productive meadows that provide food and shelter for many important

species, including fin fish, shellfish, squid, octopus, crabs and sea cucumbers, which in

turn provide income and nutrition for the people of Kigamboni.

We sincerely invite international partners to join and develop EUCHEUMA (Mwani) planting and

procurement in Tanzania Tanzania's waters are green, environmentally friendly, and

pollution-free, making it an ideal EUCHEUMA planting base.

According to FAO Seaweed is a nutritious food that offers many health benefits.

Seaweed is undeniably nutrient-rich. It is an excellent source of minerals, fiber and trace

elements. It contains high levels of vitamin A, B12, K and folate, and is a good vegetarian

protein source.Fibre is also a key benefit. An 8 g portion of dried seaweed provides over 10% of

an adult’s daily fiber needs, similar to the amount in a banana. Seaweed’s high soluble fiber

content means it can slow down the absorption of sugars and cholesterol.

Seaweed is highly versatile and can be used in many dishes such as sushi rolls, soups

and stews, salads, supplements, and smoothies.Seaweed farms absorb nutrients and

carbon dioxide to grow. The farms can help improve water quality and buffer the effects of

ocean acidification in surrounding areas.

When you choose to cooperate with us, our future to save the environment and climate change

-Millions of people’s livelihoods and well-being are directly reliant on seagrass –

through fisheries, marine tourism, and coastal protection from storms and will

shower you God's blessing helping the livelihood from coastal areas in Tanzania to stimulates

economic growth in coastal communities, making it easier to afford healthy diets.

We can provide investment partners with factory and school base labs buildings for processing

unicorn, shrimp skin, seaweed, breadfruit, and more. Lets launch its first agricultural product

in kigamboni, a seaweed-based biostimulant !