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Harnessing the diversity of small-scale actors is key to the future of aquatic food systems
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture (SSFA) provide livelihoods for over 100 million people and sustenance for ~1 billion people, particularly in the Global South. Aquatic foods are distributed through diverse supply ...
Identifying Policy Best-Practices to Support the Contribution of Aquatic Foods to Food and Nutrition Security
Type: Journal Article
The relationship between aquatic foods and food nutrition and security is increasingly recognised in policy and practice, yet many governance instruments do not acknowledge or support this important connection. The most ...
Attributes of climate resilience in fisheries: From theory to practice
Type: Journal Article
In a changing climate, there is an imperative to build coupled social-ecological systems—including fisheries—that can withstand or adapt to climate stressors. Although resilience theory identifies system attributes that ...
Aquatic foods to nourish nations
Type: Journal Article
Despite contributing to healthy diets for billions of people, aquatic foods are often undervalued as a nutritional solution because their diversity is often reduced to the protein and energy value of a single food type ...
Survival of the Richest, not the Fittest: How attempts to improve governance impact African small-scale marine fisheries
Type: Journal Article
The sustainable use of fisheries resources is a priority of the African Union in developing the Blue Economy (BE). Growing global demand for seafood has attracted diverse actors to African waters, including Distant Water ...
Sustainable development outcomes of livelihood diversification in small-scale fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Livelihood diversification is increasingly central to policy advice and investments in rural development and fisheries management. For small-scale fishing communities in low- to middle-income countries, more diverse ...
Combined innovations in public policy, the private sector and culture can drive sustainability transitions in food systems
Type: Journal Article
Global food system analyses call for an urgent transition to sustainable human diets but how this might be achieved within the current global food regime is poorly explored. Here we examine the factors that have fostered ...
Why human rights matter for marine conservation
Type: Journal Article
Human rights matter for marine conservation because people and nature are inextricably linked. A thriving planet cannot be one that contains widespread human suffering or stifles human potential; and a thriving humanity ...
Seafood in Food Security: A Call for Bridging the Terrestrial-Aquatic Divide
Type: Journal Article
The contribution of seafood to global food security is being increasingly highlighted in policy. However, the extent to which such claims are supported in the current food security literature is unclear. This review assesses ...
Rights and representation support justice across aquatic food systems
Type: Journal Article
Injustices are prevalent in food systems, where the accumulation of vast wealth is possible for a few, yet one in ten people remain hungry. Here, for 194 countries we combine aquatic food production, distribution and ...