Sustaining healthy diets: The role of capture fisheries and aquaculture for improving nutrition in the post-2015 era

By Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, A. Thorne-Lyman, P. Webb, J. Bogard, R. Subasinghe, M. Phillips, E. Allison. 2016

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda makes achieving food security and ending malnutrition a global priority. Within this framework, the importance of fisheries in local and global food systems and its contribution to nutrition and health, particularly for the poor are overlooked and undervalued. This paper reviews current fish production and consumption from capture fisheries and aquaculture, highlights opportunities for enhancing healthy diets and outlines key multi-sectoral policy solutions. Mirroring the call for a diversification of agricultural research and investment beyond a few staple grains, it is anticipated that productivity gains for a few farmed aquatic species will not suffice. Capture fisheries and aquaculture have a complementary role to play in increasing fish availability and access, and must be promoted in ways that support measurable nutrition and health gains. This paper argues that the lack of a nutrition-sensitive policy focus on capture fisheries and aquaculture represents an untapped opportunity that must be realised for ensuring sustainable healthy diets for all.

Subfields: Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nutrition and Dietetics

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In Aquatic Science

1. M. Melnychuk
2. Rosamond L. Naylor
3. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Elena Ojea
2. C. Costello
3. M. Melnychuk
4. Rosamond L. Naylor
5. Jane Lubchenco
6. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
7. Andrew J. Plantinga
8. D. Lewis

In Nutrition and Dietetics

1. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted

Citations in the corpus

• The Contribution of Fish to Food and Nutrition Security in Eastern Africa: Emerging Trends and Future Outlooks (2019, background): “Several publications recognize the full potential of fish in improving the food and nutritional security of the rural poor, especially of women and young children [45,47,50,51].”
• The future of food from the sea (2019, background): “And in addition to protein, fish products and seaweed contain essential omega-3 fatty acids and highly bioavailable micronutrients (vitamins A, B12 and D, as well as calcium, iron, iodine, zinc, selenium, phosphorus and zinc) that are crucial to a healthy diet (Kawarazuka and Béné 2010; Allison et a”