An international symposium exploring opportunities and challenges for a resilient, efficient and sustainable fisheries and aquaculture sector to promote both sustainability and productivity in aquatic food systems.
Date: Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Time: 12:00-15:15 (UTC+8)
Venue: Hitotsubashi Hall, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
The global food systems have faced an unprecedented challenge to ensure food and nutrition security for the 10 billion people projected by 2050 while mitigating climate change and avoiding biodiversity loss, and without leaving anyone behind. Aquatic foods, with their enormous diversity in species, can contribute to the diversification of diets rich in macro- and micronutrients. In building sustainable food systems, aquatic food systems are expected to play an important role.
As a follow-up of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, and on the occasion of IYAFA 2022, the JIRCAS International Symposium 2022 aimed at providing a forum for national and international research and academic communities to discuss opportunities and challenges for a resilient, efficient and sustainable fisheries and aquaculture sector. In particular, they brought new insights and identify strategic areas of STI for international collaboration to promote both sustainability and productivity of the sector.
Among the featured guest speakers were WorldFish's Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health and the 2021 World Food Prize, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, who shared research and innovative pathways in nutrition-and- gender-sensitive aquatic food systems, through artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, in realizing food systems transformation towards achieving food and nutrition security for human wellbeing while ensuring planetary health.
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