USA: Why aquatic food production should be prioritized

Published 2021년 10월 21일

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The 2021 World Food Prize Laureate, Dr. Barbara Thilsted, called for the CGIAR to focus on the potential of aquatic foods for sustainable development. She made this call during the World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue, which marked the 50th anniversary of CGIAR, the world's largest agricultural research network. Thilsted urged for a shift from thinking about feeding the population to nourishing it with aquatic foods. She also highlighted that aquatic foods have returned significant benefits across the sustainable development goals, despite receiving only 3-4% of the total CGIAR annual budget.

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So said , the 2021 World Food Prize Laureate, who recently called for CGIAR to harness the unmatched potential for aquatic foods in sustainable development.Dr Thilsted made the speech at an event that took place as part of the World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa, which marked the 50th anniversary CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research and innovation network.Thilsted, who is WorldFish’s global lead for nutrition and public health, joined other distinguished speakers, including Víctor Manuel Villalobos Arámbula, Mexico’s secretary of agriculture, Peter Mcdougall, the assistant deputy minister for global issues and development at Global Affairs Canada, Rodger Voorhies, president of global growth and opportunity division at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Jim Barnhart, assistant to the administrator in the USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security.“During my career, and as a WorldFish scientist in the CGIAR, my work at the intersection of ...

Source: Thefishsite