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The Role of Aquatic Foods in Sustainable Healthy Diets
Type: Working Paper
Diverse aquatic foods – including animals, plants and microorganisms farmed in and harvested from water, as well as cell and plant-based foods emerging from new food technologies – have an essential role in ensuring food ...
Locally-procured Fish is Essential in School Feeding Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Type: Journal Article
Fish make an important contribution to micronutrient intake, long-chained polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids (n-3 LC-PUFAS), and animal protein, as well as ensuring food and nutrition security and livelihoods for fishing ...
Seed value chain development in the Global South: Key issues and new directions for public breeding programs
Type: Journal Article
Where CGIAR breeding programs rely on the private sector for the multiplication and distribution of improved cultivars, persistent challenges have dampened their impact on varietal adoption and turnover rates. Part of the ...
Promoting Youth Engagement and Employment in Agriculture and Food Systems
Type: Internal Report
This report, prepared at the request of the Committee on World Food Security, explores the trends, constraints and prospects of young people’s engagement and employment in agriculture and sustainable food systems. Today’s ...
Fish nutrient composition: a review of global data from poorly assessed inland and marine species
Type: Journal Article
Objective: Our understanding of the nutrient contribution of fish and other aquatic species to human diets relies on nutrient composition data for a limited number of species. Yet particularly for nutritionally vulnerable ...
Interventions for improving the productivity and environmental performance of global aquaculture for future food security
Type: Journal Article
Aquatic foods are increasingly being recognized as having an important role to play in an environmentally sustainable and nutritionally sufficient food system. Proposals for increasing aquatic food production often center ...
Dried fish at the intersection of food science, economy, and culture: A global survey
Type: Journal Article
Dried fish—here defined broadly as aquatic animals preserved using simple techniques, such as sun-drying, salting, fermentation, and smoking that permit storage as foods at ambient temperature for extended periods without ...
COVID-19 impact on aquatic food systems reveals insights for future resilience
Type: Blog
The onset of COVID-19 disrupted food value chains and reversed years of progress on key development indicators. The pandemic induced shocks to food systems globally, but particularly impacted value chains in food insecure ...
Aquatic food cookbook promotes traditional recipes for health
Type: Video
WorldFish research analyst and Timor-Leste native, Agustinha Duarte, recently published a new book 'Cooking Fish and Seafood in Timor-Leste,' which has a collection of seafood recipes from Timor-Leste, each introduced by ...
Accelerating climate resilience of aquatic food systems
Type: Brief
Climate change impacts on aquatic food systems place vulnerable communities with limited adaptive capacities at most risk. Policy and investment interventions require a positive bias in favor of the most vulnerable.
Building ...