 Hi, I'm Malcolm Beverage. I'm Director of Aquaculture and Genetic Improvement for Worldfish. Two weeks ago, we had a tremendous trip to Uganda to try and put flesh in the bones of the aquaculture value chain in the country and to see if our potential partners there were happy for us to come in and share the same vision and to hear from them about what they thought were the key issues in aquaculture development in the country. Uganda is a poor country. It's a country which depends upon fish as one of the major parts of its meat diet. The aquaculture value chain, as we discovered in our visits to farms, to hatcheries and in talking to people is constrained in various different places. First, in order to grow fish, a farmer needs quality seed that is healthy, fry and fingerlings of the size he or she needs exactly when they need them and of good breed quality. That is that they grow fast and respond well when feeds are provided. When the farmer has produced his or her fish, they then have to get to market in as good a shape as possible. Fresh, frozen, smoked or dried, these are the normal products that Ugandan customers want, but often the production sites are very far away from where the consumers are. Again, although we can produce fish, Ugandans can produce fish, it doesn't always get to markets and the producers don't always get the best price and there are issues that we have to overcome. We talk to a whole range of people. We talk to private sector, we talk to farmers especially but we talk to feed producers, we talk to processors and we talk to government and we talk to a very interesting new group of people that's emerged in Uganda in recent years, technical services providers. These are privatised part of what used to be part of the government service and they told us about their issues and their problems and we've tried to listen to them and reflect this in the value chain that we've put together and I'm going to put forward to the consortium board as part of the MP3.7 process. What do you think is the challenge for a research organisation to get involved in this kind of value chain development? This is a big change, it's a big shift for us because it's not all about technologies. One of the things that we want to do, having had our discussions with our stakeholders in Uganda and then again here in Addis is to look at the potential for genetically improved strains for farmers to use. Now this is partly a technological issue. How do you choose your breeding population? How do you manage them in order to get the improvements in growth and other traits that you might be looking for? To make it successful, much of it also depends on having the right partnerships, government and the private sector understanding what they need to do, we as CG scientists needing to understand what we need to do and all of us aligning our interests and efforts together to try to ensure that things work. It's no longer acceptable, it just doesn't work to produce a technology and drop it into a country expecting that it will work.