This review explores how aquaculture can minimize its environmental impact, promote livelihoods and enhance food security. It also highlights key challenges, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land-use changes, for aquaculture to thrive sustainably in the Amazon.
Abstract
Aquaculture in the Amazon holds the potential to meet increasing food demands while offering economic opportunities in a region facing deforestation and biodiversity loss. However, expanding aquaculture in this biodiverse region comes with complex environmental and social trade-offs. This Review explores how aquaculture can support sustainable development by minimizing its environmental impact, promoting equitable livelihoods and enhancing food security. It also highlights key challenges, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land-use changes, that need to be addressed for aquaculture to thrive sustainably in the Amazon.
Reference
Pacheco, F.S., Heilpern, S.A., DiLeo, C. et al. Towards sustainable aquaculture in the Amazon. Nat Sustain (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01500-w
Read more here. See also the TABLE essay, Out of sight, out of mind: addressing ithe nvisibility of seafood in food system debates
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