{"id":200639,"date":"2025-06-21T14:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-black-soldier-fly-project-to-cut-fish-feed-costs-create-youth-jobs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T14:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:17:22","slug":"kenya-black-soldier-fly-project-to-cut-fish-feed-costs-create-youth-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-black-soldier-fly-project-to-cut-fish-feed-costs-create-youth-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Black Soldier Fly Project to Cut Fish Feed Costs, Create Youth Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nyeri \u2014 <em>Thousands of fish farmers across Kenya are set to benefit from a new initiative promoting black soldier fly farming, which is expected to slash the cost of fish feeds by more than half.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The program, launched through a partnership between the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Aquaculture Business Development Programme (ABDP), will establish over 500 youth-led black soldier fly projects nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The black soldier fly produces larvae rich in protein, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200366.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyeri \u2014 Thousands of fish farmers across Kenya are set to benefit from a new initiative promoting black soldier fly farming, which is expected to slash the cost of fish feeds by more than half. The program, launched through a partnership between the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Aquaculture Business Development Programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":200640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8561,11509,8268,8021,4274,8555,10686,6643,4688,430,257,6504,7761,254,6276],"class_list":["post-200639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-black","tag-costs","tag-create","tag-cut","tag-feed","tag-fish","tag-fly","tag-jobs","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-project","tag-soldier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}