Category: Meetings and Events

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…

Kick-off final five years of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition. Dear Network Colleagues, In accordance with the decision made at the annual network meeting of the Global Action Network Food from the Ocean and Inland Waters for Food Security and Nutrition in October 2025, you are hereby invited to participate in a zoom meeting dedicated to those interested in…

Having a common “land and sea” language is of utmost importance to ensure that common dilemmas of the trade-offs due to food production are treated alike so that informed choices can be made. Trade-offs of all food production and its nutritional value, include biodiversity and/or nature loss as well as an effect on climate and…

A new collaboration was launched in 2022 with multiple partners including FAO, the University of Lancaster, WorldFish, and the Institute of Marine Research, Norway. This aims to increase accessibility and use of food composition data to better inform public health and nutrition policies and programs based on updated and recent evidence of the important nutrient contributions…

The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2022 the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022). IYAFA 2022 aims to raise awareness on the role of small-scale fisheries and aquaculture, strengthen science-policy interaction, empower stakeholders to take action, and to build new and strengthen existing partnerships. IYAFA 2022 can also act as a springboard towards implementing the Code of Conduct…