Aquatic Foods

Integrating aquatic food systems in water and land foodscapes

Researchers are working with users, implementers, and scalers to: design and upscale integrated land and water production systems in multifunctional landscapes; co-design and upscale aquatic food production in the ecosystems created by water infrastructure; and develop participatory diagnostics of the governance of water and land foodscapes to supporting institutional innovations. In doing so, they are building on scientific evidence for adaptive, reflective, and inclusive scaling of innovations in multifunctional land and water systems to reduce poverty, improve environmental and climate performance, and sustain nutrition and food diversity.

Read about the Initiative’s other focus areas:

• Synthesizing existing data and producing new data
• Partnering to realize the benefits of aquatic foods in sustainable development
• Delivering gains from genetic improvements in farmed fish through public-private partnerships
• Developing national scaling strategies for aquatic food systems