Röös, Elin
- Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
The contribution of seafood to global food security is being increasingly highlighted in policy. However, the extent to which such claims are supported in the current food security literature is unclear. This review assesses the extent to which seafood is represented in the recent food security literature, both individually and from a food systems perspective, in combination with terrestrially-based production systems. The results demonstrate that seafood remains under-researched compared to the role of terrestrial animal and plant production in food security. Furthermore, seafood and terrestrial production remain siloed, with very few papers addressing the combined contribution or relations between terrestrial and aquatic systems. We conclude that far more attention is needed to the specific and relative role of seafood in global food security and call for the integration of seafood in a wider interdisciplinary approach to global food system research.
Keywords
food security; seafood; food system; food and nutrition security; interdisciplinary
Published in
Frontiers in sustainable food systems
2022, volume: 5, article number: 703152
Publisher: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
SLU Authors
Global goals (SDG)
UKÄ Subject classification
Food Science
Fish and Aquacultural Science
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.703152
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/115922