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Smallholder aquaculture diversifies livelihoods and diets thus improving food security status: evidence from northern Zambia

Much has been made of the potential for aquaculture to improve rural livelihoods and food and nutrition security in Africa, though little evidence exists to back such claims. This study, conducted in northern ...

Alexander M. Kaminski, Steven M. Cole, Jacob Johnson… in Agriculture & Food Security (2024)

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Factors affecting the micronutrient status of adolescent girls living in complex agro-aquatic ecological zones of Bangladesh

Inadequate intake of both macro and micronutrients is the major determinant of micronutrient deficiencies in adolescent girls. This study assessed multiple micronutrient status including vitamin D, iron, vitam...

Gulshan Ara, David C. Little, Abdullah-Al Mamun, Baukje de Roos… in Scientific Reports (2023)

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

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 ...

Beatrice I. Crona, Emmy Wassénius, Malin Jonell, J. Zachary Koehn, Rebecca Short… in Nature (2023)

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Adolescent girls in aquaculture ecozones at risk of nutrient deficiency in Bangladesh development and validation of an integrated metric

This study developed and validated an integrated metric that enhances understanding of linkages between agro-ecological and socio-economic factors that are important for explaining nutritional wellbeing in rel...

Eleanor Grieve, Abdullah-Al Mamun, Baukje de Roos, Benoy K. Barman… in BMC Public Health (2023)

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The Vital Roles of Blue Foods in the Global Food System

Blue foods play a central role in food and nutrition security for billions of people and are a cornerstone of the livelihoods, economies, and cultures of many coastal and riparian communities. Blue foods are e...

Jim Leape, Fiorenza Micheli… in Science and Innovations for Food Systems T… (2023)

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Author Correction: Harnessing the diversity of small-scale actors is key to the future of aquatic food systems

Rebecca E. Short, Stefan Gelcich, David C. Little, Fiorenza Micheli… in Nature Food (2021)

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Aquatic foods to nourish nations

Despite contributing to healthy diets for billions of people, aquatic foods are often undervalued as a nutritional solution because their diversity is often reduced to the protein and energy value of a single ...

Christopher D. Golden, J. Zachary Koehn, Alon Shepon, Simone Passarelli… in Nature (2021)

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Author Correction: Blue food demand across geographic and temporal scales

Rosamond L. Naylor, Avinash Kishore, U. Rashid Sumaila… in Nature Communications (2021)

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Blue food demand across geographic and temporal scales

Numerous studies have focused on the need to expand production of ‘blue foods’, defined as aquatic foods captured or cultivated in marine and freshwater systems, to meet rising population- and income-driven de...

Rosamond L. Naylor, Avinash Kishore, U. Rashid Sumaila… in Nature Communications (2021)

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Intensification, regulation and diversification: The changing face of inland aquaculture in China

Trends in aquatic food consumption were matched against farm production surveys within Hubei province and compared to official production data and statistics. Surveys showed that consumer tastes were changing ...

Richard Newton, Wenbo Zhang, Zhaoxing **an, Bruce McAdam, David C. Little in Ambio (2021)

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Harnessing the diversity of small-scale actors is key to the future of aquatic food systems

Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture (SSFA) provide livelihoods for over 100 million people and sustenance for ~1 billion people, particularly in the Global South. Aquatic foods are distributed through divers...

Rebecca E. Short, Stefan Gelcich, David C. Little, Fiorenza Micheli… in Nature Food (2021)

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Publisher Correction: A 20-year retrospective review of global aquaculture

Rosamond L. Naylor, Ronald W. Hardy, Alejandro H. Buschmann, Simon R. Bush… in Nature (2021)

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Author Correction: A 20-year retrospective review of global aquaculture

A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03508-0.

Rosamond L. Naylor, Ronald W. Hardy, Alejandro H. Buschmann, Simon R. Bush… in Nature (2021)

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A 20-year retrospective review of global aquaculture

The sustainability of aquaculture has been debated intensely since 2000, when a review on the net contribution of aquaculture to world fish supplies was published in Nature. This paper reviews the developments in...

Rosamond L. Naylor, Ronald W. Hardy, Alejandro H. Buschmann, Simon R. Bush… in Nature (2021)

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Farming fish in the sea will not nourish the world

Recent literature on marine fish farming brands it as potentially compatible with sustainable resource use, conservation, and human nutrition goals, and aligns with the emerging policy discourse of ‘blue growt...

Ben Belton, David C. Little, Wenbo Zhang, Peter Edwards… in Nature Communications (2020)

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Map** the impacts of farmed Scottish salmon from a life cycle perspective

The European Union relies on seafood imports to supply growing demand that European production has failed to meet. Politically motivated media reports have denigrated competing imports in favour of local produ...

Richard W. Newton, David C. Little in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2018)

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Are farmed fish just for the wealthy?

Ben Belton, Simon R. Bush, David C. Little in Nature (2016)