Recognize fish as food in policy discourse and development funding.
Aquaculture
Fish
Fisheries
Food and nutrition security
International development
Policy
Journal
Ambio
ISSN: 1654-7209
Titre abrégé: Ambio
Pays: Sweden
ID NLM: 0364220
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2021
May 2021
Historique:
received:
16
03
2020
accepted:
21
10
2020
revised:
01
09
2020
pubmed:
18
1
2021
medline:
14
4
2021
entrez:
17
1
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The international development community is off-track from meeting targets for alleviating global malnutrition. Meanwhile, there is growing consensus across scientific disciplines that fish plays a crucial role in food and nutrition security. However, this 'fish as food' perspective has yet to translate into policy and development funding priorities. We argue that the traditional framing of fish as a natural resource emphasizes economic development and biodiversity conservation objectives, whereas situating fish within a food systems perspective can lead to innovative policies and investments that promote nutrition-sensitive and socially equitable capture fisheries and aquaculture. This paper highlights four pillars of research needs and policy directions toward this end. Ultimately, recognizing and working to enhance the role of fish in alleviating hunger and malnutrition can provide an additional long-term development incentive, beyond revenue generation and biodiversity conservation, for governments, international development organizations, and society more broadly to invest in the sustainability of capture fisheries and aquaculture.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33454882
doi: 10.1007/s13280-020-01451-4
pii: 10.1007/s13280-020-01451-4
pmc: PMC7811336
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
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