Agrilife24.com: “Seaweed: Aquatic food solutions for people, climate and oceans” a virtual learning session will be held on Tuesday, 28 June 2022.This virtual event exploring positive actions that can advance seaweed innovations in addressing food and nutrition security, livelihoods and ocean health.
Time: 08:00-09:30 (WEST / Lisbon, Portugal) / 15:00-16:30 (UTC+8 /Malaysia)
An important theme that emerged from the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 and the Glasgow COP 26 meeting is the importance of aquatic foods in the food systems transformation agenda, moving the global agenda toward Zero Hunger, and as nature-based solutions to address climate risks. Aquatic foods, an encompassing term to include diverse plants, animals and microorganisms originating from various aquatic resources, are consumed by up to 3 billion people globally, and provide livelihoods for up to 800 million people around the world, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
Seaweed, a low-trophic and high-biomass aquatic food, is gaining recognition for its role to provide multiple micronutrients and essential fatty acids in diets, as well as an important carbon sequestration agent and carbon sink for the ocean. Seaweed features strongly in the diets of East and Southeast Asia, the Pacific and other coastal communities, and is gaining popularity worldwide. As the demand for seaweed grows, so are new production regions, including Bangladesh. Pilot projects have been conducted in coastal and host communities in Cox’s Bazar, with strong participation by women and youth in this novel industry.
This UN Oceans Conference Side Event co-hosted by WorldFish, Sylhet Agricultural University in Bangladesh, WWF International and Safe Seaweed Coalition, will draw upon the knowledge and expertise of global, regional and local stakeholders to share their thoughts and seaweed innovations in addressing food and nutrition security, livelihoods and ocean health. Importantly, this session will position positive actions that can advance seaweed accessibility and availability to more communities, especially the poor and vulnerable groups across the world.
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