Future food security
OCEANS: In a report “Blue Papers” commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, gave summarised scientific evidence and provide decision-makers with an overview of the challenges and opportunities for the sustainable use of ocean resources. The report key findings is that smarter management of wild marine fisheries and marine aquaculture (mariculture) could result in a six-fold increase in food production form the ocean. This would equate to more than two-thirds of the protein needed to feed a global population expected to reach almost 10 billion people in 2050. The report notes that food from the ocean plays a unique role in sustainable food security for five reasons: · Climate change: - Many aqua food products from ocean have lower greenhouse gas foot prints compared with land based animal source food. · Feed efficiency: - When...