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A compelling case for aquaculture’s role in global food security

Aquatic foods can address malnutrition, lower the environmental footprint of the food production and provide livelihoods around the world, according to five newly-published papers.

The research, from a group called the Blue Food Assessment (BFA), projects that global demand for blue foods will roughly double by 2050, and will be met primarily through increased aquaculture production, rather than by capture fisheries.

The papers have been compiled by the Blue Food Association, a group of more than 100 researchers led by Stanford University’s Centre for Ocean Solutions and Centre on Food Security and the Environment, the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and EAT

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