Category: Meetings and Events

Summary of the Meeting “From Healthy Waters to Healthy People” Action for sustainable food systems for a healthy diet has been called for in the WHO/FAO work plan for the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition. As a follow up Norway invited countries to jointly set up an informal Global Action Network on Sustainable Food…

The 1st meeting, “Form Healthy Waters to Healthy People”, offered an opportunity to explain key features of the Global Action Network on Sustainable Food from the Oceans and Inland Waters for Food Security and Nutrition, and pointed out what needs to be done to achieve greater understanding of the importance of seafood in combating hunger…

From Healthy Waters to Healthy People, Rome 5. july 2018 Downloads http://nettv.regjeringen.no/erik-solheim-executive-director-unep-healthy

This webinar focuses on the value-added inter-linkages of terrestrial and aquatic food systems to help with solving the global challenges in food and feed systems. Scalable solutions, both macro (linked to commodities) and micro (linked to local communities) will be showcased. The panel discussion will focus on actions needed in support of a paradigm shift…

Presentations at the Network meeting 24 October 2023 Peter Haugan, Policy Director, Institute of Marine Research, Norway. New Ocean Panel Report-The Ocean as a Solution to Climate Change Updated Opportunities for Action Katrine Soma, Senior Scientist at Wagningen University and Research (WUR), Netherlands. Good practices (Kenya) – in support of the missions Links and information shared in…

Aquatic food – EU initiatives Legislative: Sustainable fisheries: agreement on revision of fisheries control system (europa.eu) ; European Parliament approval of 17.10.2023: Parliament approves new EU fisheries control rules | News | European Parliament (europa.eu) Policy proposals of the European Commission: Fisheries, aquaculture and marine ecosystems (europa.eu) (February 2023): Protection of marine ecosystems for sustainable fisheries Questions & Answers…

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…