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The Role of Fish in the First 1,000 Days in Zambia
Type: Journal Article
Fish is especially rich in essential omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and micronutrients, including bioavailable calcium, iron and zinc. Fish features prominently in the diet of most, especially poor, Zambians. ...
The socio-economic context for improving food security through land based aquaculture in Solomon Islands: A peri-urban case study
Type: Journal Article
Future fish demand-supply scenarios project that investment in aquaculture will be needed to ensure fish for food security in Solomon Islands. In 2010 a study of two peri-urban areas of Solomon Islands analysed the demand ...
Livelihood diversity and dynamism in Timor-Lesteinsights for coastal resource governance and livelihood development
Type: Journal Article
Coastal communities within small island developing states are typically highly dependent on fisheries and other natural resource-based livelihoods. However, specialisation as a 'fisher' is rare compared to diverse livelihoods ...
Sustaining healthy diets: The role of capture fisheries and aquaculture for improving nutrition in the post-2015 era
Type: Journal Article
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda makes achieving food security and ending malnutrition a global priority. Within this framework, the importance of fisheries in local and global food systems and its contribution ...
Change and diversity in smallholder rice-fish systems: Recent evidence and policy lessons from Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Efforts to unlock the genetic potential of both rice and fish, when combined with improvements in the management of rice-fish systems, can potentially increase agricultural productivity and food security in some of the ...
Fisheries in transition: Food and nutrition security implications for the global South
Type: Journal Article
Fisheries and fish supply are undergoing a fundamental structural transition, as indicated by a ten country analysis. Aquaculture now provides around half the fish for direct human consumption and is set to grow further, ...
Meeting the food and nutrition needs of the poor: the role of fish and the opportunities and challenges emerging from the rise of aquaculture
Type: Journal Article
People who are food and nutrition insecure largely reside in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and for many, fish represents a rich source of protein, micronutrients and essential fatty acids. The contribution of fish to household ...
Innovations in capture fisheries are an imperative for nutrition security in the developing world
Type: Journal Article
This article examines two strands of discourse on wild capture fisheries; one that focuses on resource sustainability and environmental impacts, another related to food and nutrition security and human well-being. Available ...
Global food supply: Certify sustainable aquaculture?
Type: Journal Article
Aquaculture, the farming of aquatic organisms, provides close to 50% of the world's supply of seafood, with a value of U.S. $125 billion. It makes up 13% of the world's animal-source protein (excluding eggs and dairy) and ...
Contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to food security and poverty reduction: Assessing the current evidence
Type: Journal Article
This paper evaluates the existing evidence of how and to what extent capture fisheries and aquaculture contribute to food security and poverty reduction. In doing so the authors evaluate the quality and scientific rigor ...