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

Journal article

and omega-3 deficiencies. Meanwhile, in many global North nations, cardiovascular disease rates and large greenhouse gas footprints from ruminant meat intake could be lowered through moderate consumption of seafood with low environmental impact. The analytical framework we provide also identifies countries with high future risk, for whom climate adaptation of blue food systems will be particularly important. Overall the framework helps decision makers to assess the blue food policy objectives most relevant to their geographies, and to compare and contrast the benefits and trade-offs associated with pursuing these objectives.

Authors: Crona, BI; Wassénius, E; Jonell, M; Koehn, JZ; Short, R

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Nature Research
• Journal: Nature
• Volume: 616
• Issue: 7955
• Pages: 104-112
• Publication date: 2023-02-22
• DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05737-x
• EISSN: 1476-4687
• ISSN: 0028-0836
• Language: English
• Keywords: Medicine; Natural resource economics; Development economics; Economics; Agriculture; Geography; Safeguarding; Livelihood; Food security; Business; Context (archaeology); Environmental resource management; Food systems