Aquatic Foods

Partnering to realize the benefits of aquatic foods in sustainable development

The benefits of aquatic foods are challenged by unsustainable development and competing interests over the commons in the blue economy. New partnerships that bridge sectors and levels of governance have important roles to play for transformative change in aquatic food systems including by:

• Scaling up cost-effective models for community-based management and development systems that enable inclusive governance over ocean commons;
• Developing and strengthening novel partnerships that co-produce sustainable and nutrition sensitive development pathways with aquatic foods; and
• Synthesizing place-based learning to enable aquatic food system actors’ strategic engagement in international transformative change processes.

Read about the Initiative’s other focus areas:

• Synthesizing existing data and producing new data
• Integrating aquatic food systems in water and land foodscapes
• Delivering gains from genetic improvements in farmed fish through public-private partnerships
• Developing national scaling strategies for aquatic food systems