Four ways blue foods can help achieve food system ambitions across nations.

ABSTRACT: Blue foods, sourced in aquatic environments, are important for the economies, livelihoods, nutritional security and cultures of people in many nations. They are often nutrient rich¹, generate lower emissions and impacts on land and water than many terrestrial meats², and contribute to the health³, wellbeing and livelihoods of many rural communities⁴. The Blue Food Assessment recently evaluated nutritional, environmental, economic and justice dimensions of blue foods globally. Here we integrate these findings and translate them into four policy objectives to help realize the contributions that blue foods can make to national food systems around the world: ensuring supplies of critical nutrients, providing healthy alternatives to terrestrial meat,

SUBMITTER: Crona BI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10076219 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature