CFS 54 Side Event
Date: 20.10.26
Time: 08:30 – 09:45
Location: Philippines Room, FAO Headquarters, Rome | Zoom
Climate change, water scarcity, and other shocks threaten food systems and access to nutritious diets. Aquatic foods like fish, algae or mussels can contribute to resilient food systems when sustainable production, functioning value chains, and healthy food environments are connected. Resilient production approaches, including integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems that improve water and nutrient efficiency or ecosystem-based fisheries management, can strengthen local supply with nutritious aquatic food, livelihoods and sustainable resource use. Yet production alone is not enough: processing, storage, markets and public procurement are key to ensuring food safety, affordability and access for consumers. This side event brings together experiences from Africa and Latin America to explore how aquatic foods can contribute to resilience from production to consumption. It highlights approaches connecting small-scale producers with markets and school meal programmes, creating opportunities for dietary diversity, child nutrition, and local economies.