Aquatic foods - animals, plants and algae harvested from freshwater and marine environments - contribute substantially to food systems globally. These foods supply protein to over 3.2 billion people, are a key source of nutrients in many coastal, rural and indigenous communities, and support the livelihoods of over 800 million...

Bagans for catching anchovy by Stephanus Mandagi, PhD & Christofel Rotinsulu Anchovies have been the main target for migrant fishers in Raja Ampat, West Papua Province of Indonesia. For the last three decades, however, due to changes in fishery dynamics, the anchovy stock has declined in terms of availability to small-scale fisheries...

  One of the pillars of IYAFA’s Global action plan is on food security and nutrition. How do you think the International Year contributes to acknowledging, strengthening, and promoting the contribution of small-scale fisheries and aquaculture to healthy diets? The most important link between small-scale fisheries and healthy diets comes from...

by Lena Westlund and Molly Ahern Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture and related value chains provide employment for millions of people (FAO, 2012; Thompson and Subasinghe, 2011). Fish harvested by small-scale fishers contributes to food and nutrition security through direct human consumption of the catch and indirectly through livelihood opportunities and income...

© Nelson Avdalov The burden of hunger and malnutrition, on school-aged children and adolescents are major constraints in achieving global food security and nutrition. Home-grown school feeding (HGSF) is a model designed to provide school-aged children and adolescents in schools with safe, diverse, and nutritious food, sourced locally from...