Unlocking the Blue Revolution: Aquatic food systems as the next frontier

As the world confronts the intertwined crises of hunger, climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequality, aquatic food systems offer a powerful yet underleveraged pathway toward a more sustainable and inclusive future. This presentation explores why aquatic foods must move from the margins to the center of global food systems thinking. Drawing on WorldFish’s scientific and programmatic journey, it highlights how advances in genetics, nutrition, fish health, farming practices, governance, market systems, and digital innovation are helping to build climate-resilient, nutrition-sensitive, and economically inclusive aquatic food systems. The presentation also examines the paradox of persistent food insecurity amid abundance, the investment and data gaps that continue to constrain progress, and the urgent need for a new generation of programmatic, regional, and enduring partnerships. At its core, this is a call to action: not only to understand aquatic food systems differently, but to invest in them as a strategic lever for shared prosperity, planetary health, and food security in the decades ahead.

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Host or Publisher Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries