Not just for the wealthy: Rethinking farmed fish consumption in the Global South

By B. Belton, S. Bush, D. Little. 2017

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Abstract Aquaculture’s contributions to food security in the Global South are widely misunderstood. Dominant narratives suggest that aquaculture contributes mainly to international trade benefiting richer Northern consumers, or provides for wealthy urban consumers in Southern markets. On the supply side, the literature promotes an idealized vision of ‘small-scale’, low input, semi-subsistence farming as the primary means by which aquaculture can contribute to food security, or emphasizes the role of ‘industrial’ export oriented aquaculture in undermining local food security. In fact, farmed fish is produced predominantly by a ‘missing middle’ segment of commercial and increasingly intensive farms, and overwhelmingly remains in Southern domestic markets for consumption by poor and middle income consumers in both urban and rural areas, making an important but underappreciated contribution to global food security.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Global and Planetary Change, Nutrition and Dietetics

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The Contribution of Fish to Food and Nutrition Security in Eastern Africa: Emerging Trends and Future Outlooks (2019, background): “Furthermore, [57] demonstrated that domestic consumption accounts for approximately 90% of the total fish production in developing countries.”
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Aquaculture subsidies in the European Union: Evolution, impact and future potential for growth (2019, background): “1 This discrepancy is interesting and can largely be explained by the increasing role of aquaculture in food security in several developing countries [55].”
The Ecosystem Services of Marine Aquaculture: Valuing Benefits to People and Nature (2018, background): “Mariculture offers a crucial supply of protein, and although development in regions particularly sensitive to food insecurity and nutritional deficiencies is needed (Golden et al. 2016), the provision of seafood can support nutritionally vulnerable communities (Belton et al. 2018).”
U.S. seafood consumption (2019, background): “Belton, Bush, and Little (2018) show how this is the case for the 10 largest developing country aquaculture producers.”
Country-specific dietary shifts to mitigate climate and water crises (2019, background): “In both countries, a substantial share of domestic fish production was from aquaculture (72% and 38%, respectively), predominantly for domestic consumption and not export (Belton et al., 2018).”
Give a Man a Fishpond: Modeling the Impacts of Aquaculture in the Rural Economy (2018, background): “(Belton et al. 2017), it possesses few of the characteristics of commonly associated”