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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBlue Transformation: strategies and actions for more sustainable agrifood systems in the Mediterranean
Webinar outcomes
2024Also available in:
During this webinar, organized by the SFS-MED Platform and held on 21 March 2024, stakeholders from across the Mediterranean shared knowledge and concrete experiences about the role of policymaking, research, capacity building, technology and finance in accompanying the Blue Transformation in the Mediterranean region.Panelists and speakers highlighted that the Mediterranean fisheries and aquaculture sectors are crucial for the region's aquatic food systems, supporting food security, enhancing livelihoods and protecting heritage. To this effect, the Blue Transformation outlines a vision to expand aquatic food systems and increase their contribution to nutritious and affordable healthy diets for the most vulnerable, while fostering equitable growth, especially for those communities that depend on fisheries and aquaculture.The discussion was instrumental in demonstrating that concerted efforts in investments, governance, technological innovation, education and knowledge exchange are needed to address a series of intricate challenges and leverage promising opportunities to propel the sustainable growth of fisheries and aquaculture in the Mediterranean.Multistakeholder and community-driven approaches, as well as an enhanced regional cooperation are essential to integrate agrifood and the blue sectors, advancing towards holistic regional development and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). -
BookletValue chain analysis and value chain development approaches to food systems transformation
Exploring the contribution of aquatic food value chains to global food systems transformation
2025Also available in:
No results found.The paper considers complementarities between value chain development approaches and food systems transformation, presents the FISH4ACP methodology, and highlights some of the results being achieved by the FISH4ACP programme using this methodology. It was prepared to inform debate at the Blue Food Forum organized by the FISH4ACP programme, held in the United Republic of Tanzania in September 2024. -
Book (series)Aquatic food systems in the blue economy
A holistic perspective of drivers, trends, and potential implications for policy and programming
2025Also available in:
No results found.Blue economy emerged as a policy trend over the last decade and is an increasingly influential concept on global, regional, and national policy agendas. While the blue economy concept inspires interdisciplinary and intersectoral policies and programmes, no commonly accepted definition of the blue economy, including its spatial or thematic scope, exists. This report reviews and analyses how stakeholders apply the blue economy strategically and operationally in their policy and programming, with particular attention to the role of aquatic food systems, which is established as a vital blue economy sector among all stakeholders, regardless of their category or geographic scope. Aquatic food systems stakeholders are thus navigating a blue economy landscape irrespective of whether they are pursuing their own blue economy ambitions. Ultimately, the report provides perspectives on the potential role of FAO amid identified blue economy trends, focusing on the role of its Blue Transformation Roadmap to advance and strengthen the role of aquatic food systems in a blue economy context and its potential as a pathway for the transformation of aquatic food systems.
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