Category: 2025

Presentations from the webinar Transforming food systems with aquatic foods: scaling up sustainable production solutions Santiago Fernández de Córdoba, Coordinator, UN Forum on Sustainable StandardsVoluntary sustainability standards Obstacles to trade and development that such standards may create and impact on small-scale producers and least developed countries Peter Limbu, Fisheries Technical Lead, The Nature Conservancy (TNC),…

Transforming food systems with aquatic foods –Advancing equitable livelihoods for healthy people and planet Amy Atter Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), GhanaHow to strengthens women’s livelihood through market innovations: sun drying of small fish in Ghana?–SmallFishFood Emma Witbooi Project manager, UNDP’s Blue Resilience ProjectWhat are the possible solutions to key governance and associated gender challenges…

Presentations from the webinar Transforming food systems with aquatic foods: access to sustainable, safe and nutritious food for all Hettie Schonfeldt,  Professor, University of Pretoria, ARUA Centre of Excellence: Food Security, University of Pretoria, South Africa, Scientific advisor to AFROFOODSImportance of open access nutrient data for aquatic foods Merete Tandstad, Senior Program Coordinator of the EAF…

Summary People’s Republic of China has been the world largest aquaculture producer for decades, and the commercial scale integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) conducted in Sanggou bay has provided an effective background environment for several aquaculture-related research projects. To explore sustainable aquaculture production, the research group of ‘Ecological Farming in Coastal Area’ at Yellow Sea Fisheries…

A report on integrating blue foods into climate strategies, offering policy options, targets, examples, and pathways for building resilience. Blue or aquatic foods—foods that are wild-caught or farmed from oceans, rivers, and lakes—are an important part of global food systems. They are increasingly recognized as a priority for climate action, yet they are often overlooked…

Since long ago, WorldFish has been promoting nutrition-sensitive approaches for aquatic food production systems by integrating small indigenous fish species (SIS). This effort gained global recognition when Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted of WorldFish was awarded the World Food Prize of 2021. SIS have high nutritional value in terms of protein content and the presence of…

The Global Action Network Food Composition working group, together with other international experts, formed an international CoP on the Nutrient Composition of Aquatic Foods and hosted a 4-day workshop in Rome from 14-17th January, 2025 entitled “Aquatic Foods Community of Practice Writing Workshop”, funded by the Lancaster Environment Centre. The workshop brought together international experts in nutrition, fisheries,…

Sustainable development aspires to “leave no one behind”. Even so, limited attention has been paid to small-scale fisheries (SSF) and their importance in eradicating poverty, hunger and malnutrition. Through a collaborative and multidimensional data-driven approach, we have estimated that SSF provide at least 40% (37.3 million tonnes) of global fisheries catches and 2.3 billion people…

In 2019 Norway pledged NOK 100 mill to “Food from the Oceans” at the Our Ocean Conference in Oslo. The guideline of the grant was aligned to the objectives of the Norwegian Action Plan on Sustainable Food Systems under the Foreign and development policy (2019-2023). A food system includes all aspects and activities related to…

09:30–10:00   Refreshments 10:00–10:30   Opening session Opening session: Welcome to the NetworkModerator: Ambassador Inge Nordang, Permanent Representative of Norway to FAO Welcoming by Government of NorwayAmbassador Inge Nordang Introduction of the meetingAmbassador Inge Nordang 10:30–11:00   High level session High level session: From healthy oceans and inland waters to healthy humansModerator: Inge Nordang Healthy oceans and inland…