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New analysis and online tool shows value of aquatic foods in addressing global food challenges

A new interactive online tool and analysis shows how leveraging aquatic foods can help policymakers address multiple global challenges.

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Intelligence

First full reference genome for a genetically improved tilapia strain could aid global food security

Scientists say the reference genome for a genetically improved tilapia strain can be a "baseline" for breeding beneficial traits.

Responsibility

Stirling-WorldFish: Fish polyculture offers a flexible pathway to food and nutrition security

The open-access paper finds that polyculture, or farming multiple species in one system, can supplement capture fisheries and tilapia aquaculture.

Responsibility

Underdeveloped seafood cold chains threaten livelihoods, food security and climate

The United Nations says a lack of refrigeration in seafood cold chains in underdeveloped regions is a threat to Sustainable Development Goals.

Fisheries

Study highlights a slowed global aquaculture growth rate and need to rebuild wild fish stocks

A UBC study says the world 'needs aquaculture' but rebuilding declining wild fish stocks is essential to achieving global food security.

Innovation & Investment

‘They know better than men how to protect their environment and people’: How focusing on women farmers is boosting food security in India

GOAL 22: The Government of Odisha and WorldFish collaborate to boost income and food security in India by teaching women’s groups to raise carp.

Responsibility

Swapping meat for seafood could mean more nutritious and climate‑friendly diets 

With a growing population and climate change threatening food security, Dalhousie researchers say seafood holds promise for global nutritional needs with low environmental impact.

Responsibility

Norway pledges $5 million for IFAD aquaculture projects in East Africa

The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) has committed $5 million to support IFAD aquaculture projects in East Africa.

Responsibility

‘Aquaculture could feed the world,’ concludes International Labour Organization

An International Labour Organization technical meeting affirmed that aquaculture has enormous potential to feed the world, but there are challenges to harnessing its full power.

Intelligence

The keys to making land-based and offshore aquaculture work? Scale, scale, scale

GOAL delegates heard that the biggest opportunity for land-based and offshore aquaculture is to scale production and increase seafood supplies.

Intelligence

GOAL 2020 Day 1: Aquaculture addressing the world’s ‘most fundamental challenge’

GOAL 2020 keynote speaker Peer Ederer says the solution to closing food security gaps doesn’t include abandoning animal proteins and finger pointing.

Responsibility

A helping hand to lend: UK aquaculture seeks to broaden its horizons

Aquaculture is an essential contributor to the world food security challenge, and every stakeholder has a role to play in the sector’s evolution, delegates were told at the recent Aquaculture’s Global Outlook: Embracing Internationality seminar in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Responsibility

How will climate change impact seafood production?

Much work is needed to properly address and prepare for the potential impacts of climate change, and to continue increasing the contribution of seafood production to feed a growing human population.

Innovation & Investment

On GM foods, part 3: Let’s decide where we’re going

To assess the role of genetic engineering in agriculture, we should first state what we want from our agricultural systems. Agriculture, and by extension the future of aquaculture, lacks a succinct direction.

Intelligence

Pesquerías y acuacultura: Actividades hermanas con una meta común

La acuacultura y la pesca — aunque significativamente diferentes pues una agricultura y la otra es cacería — son actividades relacionadas muy de cerca que comparten muchos componentes de sus cadenas de valor, incluyendo sus mercados y clientes. Ambas tienen muy importantes, crecientes funciones globales que desempeñar en la seguridad alimentaria en las próximas décadas.

Intelligence

Fisheries and aquaculture: Sister activities with a common goal

Aquaculture and fisheries – although significantly different as one is farming and the other one is hunting – are very closely related activities that share many components of their value chains, including their markets and customers.