Feeding 9 billion by 2050 – Putting fish back on the menu
Christophe Béné,Christophe Béné,Manuel Barange,Rohana P. Subasinghe,Per Pinstrup-Andersen,Gorka Merino,Gro Ingunn Hemre,Meryl J. Williams +7 more
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In this article, the authors make a case for a closer integration of fish into the overall debate and future policy about food security and nutrition, making a case that fish is one of the most efficient converters of feed into high quality food and its carbon footprint is lower compared to other animal production systems.Citations
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health
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The COVID-19 Pandemic, Small-Scale Fisheries and Coastal Fishing Communities
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