Seafood in Food Security: A Call for Bridging the Terrestrial-Aquatic Divide
Stacia Stetkiewicz, Rachel Norman, Edward H. Allison, Neil Andrew, Gulshan Ara, Gill Banner‐Stevens, Ben Belton, M.C.M. Beveridge, Jessica Bogard, Simon R. Bush, Pete Coffee, Margaret Crumlish, Peter Edwards, Mahmoud Eltholth, Lynne Falconer, J.G. Ferreira, Angus Garrett, Iain Gatward, Faruk Ul Islam, Alexander M. Kaminski, Marian Kjellevold, Froukje Kruijssen, William Leschen, Abdullah‐Al Mamun, Bruce J. McAdam, Richard Newton, Birgitte Krogh-Poulsen, Alexandra Pounds, B. Matthew Richardson, Nanna Roos, Elin Röös, Andrea Schapper, Tori Spence-McConnell, Sharon Suri, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Kim D. Thompson, Michael F. Tlusty, Max Troell, Raffaele Vignola, James A. Young, Wenbo Zhang, David C. Little
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.