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- Well, thanks for coming in, Joe.

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Great to see you.

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So we'd love to hear a
little bit more about

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what Victory Farms is.

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- Victory Farms is a vertically integrated

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protein business, focusing on fish.

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The protein gap and the nutrition deficit

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in Sub-Saharan Africa is
substantial and climbing rapidly.

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We started Victory Farms with the mission

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to create a sustainable
solution through aquaculture

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and through the deployment of technology,

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talent, and capital to
create a scalable solution

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that can really address that growing gap.

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- Why aquaculture, specifically?

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- Aquaculture has the
potential to not only

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be the primary source of
protein for the 1 billion today,

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2 billion very soon, population.

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It also has the potential to be one

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of the greatest mitigants

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to climate change over the next 20 years.

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- Can you expand a little bit on

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why VF is an interesting climate solution?

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- How Africa feeds itself
or imports food is going

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to be one of the biggest drivers

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of climate change in the next 20 years.

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Tilapia aquaculture, by
the nature of the biology

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of the fish, is one of the most
low intensity carbon options

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that we have to create animal protein.

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At the core of our ambition
is to be the world's

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first truly regenerative
aquaculture platform.

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We define it in two very simple ways.

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One is that we're carbon negative,

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all of our operations,

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and two, that we're biodiversity positive.

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Because we work with live
animals it's especially important

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that we can demonstrate
that the commercial farming

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of an animal doesn't have
to result in the degradation

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or loss of other biodiversity.

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And we think that that
can help become a link

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to how the industry can
adapt so that food production

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through aquaculture is a net
positive on biodiversity.