Earlier this year, SSE and a group of volunteers set up a tank in the village of Kisayip in Nigeria that’s providing jobs and thousands of pounds of catfish and produce annually to the villagers

I think every Urban Harvest unit could employ a couple people. We’d design them to be portable and expandable. Imagine if we could find 14 locations around the city – that’s 28 jobs. It takes about six months to harvest the fish and produce. With six tanks in each unit, you could stagger the launch so you had fish and produce to sell each month.

What kind of response has the proto-type gotten?

There’s a huge market of people who like the idea of a social enterprise that creates jobs and provides organic products.

There’s both a commercial and residential market for this. We don’t have any customers signed up, but we’d had a lot tell us: When you’re up and running, we’ll buy from you.
What are the next steps?