Food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition have been on the rise in recent years, due to disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing climate shocks and conflicts. Decades of steady...
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Global Food and Nutrition Security
Due to the urgent need to protect communities, ecosystems, and economies from the impacts of a changing climate, adaptation is becoming increasingly relevant. Climate change is already a significant stressor on most...
Feed-food competition is the allocation of resources that can be used to feed humans to animal feed instead, a current but unsustainable practise not well documented for aquaculture. Here...
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The production of aquatic foods in Nigeria currently contributes about 30% to total national domestic fish production. However, it has the potential to grow three-fold...
Aquaculture is among the most dynamic sectors in the global food system, yet it remains surprisingly under-represented in the mainstream literature on food policy. This article reviews 204...
The African Union has continued to prioritise the need to accelerate efforts towards socio-economic transformation and development through strategic continental and regional initiatives. Agenda 2063 aims...
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Food systems interact with, and affect, the environment in a great many ways beyond their greenhouse gas emissions. In order to feed humans, the global food...
The Communication identifies several key priorities:
Halt and reverse the loss of marine biodiversity by concluding an ambitious UN High Seas Treaty (Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction)...
This document outlines a roadmap for the transformation of aquatic food systems - ‘Blue Transformation’, providing a vision for the FAO’s work on aquatic food systems for the period 2022–2030. This roadmap...
Coastal communities in Indonesia are often prone to food insecurity because they are highly dependent on fisheries for income and subsistence. However, connections between fish...