- Well, thanks for coming in, Joe.
Great to see you.
So we'd love to hear a little bit more about
what Victory Farms is.
- Victory Farms is a vertically integrated
protein business, focusing on fish.
The protein gap and the nutrition deficit
in Sub-Saharan Africa is substantial and climbing rapidly.
We started Victory Farms with the mission
to create a sustainable solution through aquaculture
and through the deployment of technology,
talent, and capital to create a scalable solution
that can really address that growing gap.
- Why aquaculture, specifically?
- Aquaculture has the potential to not only
be the primary source of protein for the 1 billion today,
2 billion very soon, population.
It also has the potential to be one
of the greatest mitigants
to climate change over the next 20 years.
- Can you expand a little bit on
why VF is an interesting climate solution?
- How Africa feeds itself or imports food is going
to be one of the biggest drivers
of climate change in the next 20 years.
Tilapia aquaculture, by the nature of the biology
of the fish, is one of the most low intensity carbon options
that we have to create animal protein.
At the core of our ambition is to be the world's
first truly regenerative aquaculture platform.
We define it in two very simple ways.
One is that we're carbon negative,
all of our operations,
and two, that we're biodiversity positive.
Because we work with live animals it's especially important
that we can demonstrate that the commercial farming
of an animal doesn't have to result in the degradation
or loss of other biodiversity.
And we think that that can help become a link
to how the industry can adapt so that food production
through aquaculture is a net positive on biodiversity.