This study examines the different narratives of food security in sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from the “crisis narrative” pushed by aid agencies to “chronic poverty narrative”. It argues that certain framings of food security can lead to favouring certain understandings of problems and solutions. 

This report by the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy finds that ocean-based solutions could reduce the emissions gap by 35% to stay within 1.5 degrees by 2050. Eating low-carbon ocean food instead of meat could reduce emissions by up to 1.06 GT CO2e a year, roughly equivalent to taking 265 coal-fired power plants offline each year. 

Financial journalist Chloe Sorvino investigates the industrial meat industry, laying bare corporate greed, fundamental weaknesses in the sector, the limitations of local movements challenging the status quo and the false promise of lab-grown meat. 

Professor Jennifer Clapp investigates how a small handful of giant corporations have come to dominate the farm input sector, why it matters and what can be done about it. She explains how we got here, outlining the forces that enable this extreme concentration of power. 

This book explores the complex interplay of sounds in the sea, showing how sounds help marine life survive and how human noise can transform entire marine ecosystems. Journalist Amorina Kingdon synthesizes historical discoveries with the latest scientific research in a clear and compelling portrait of this sonic undersea world.

This report by IIED argues that seafood has been ignored in food system debates and should play a more prominent role to maximise the synergies and avoid unintended consequences. 

The NGO Feedback found that the Norwegian farmed salmon industry consumes nearly 2 million tonnes of whole fish from the wild. It imports this from West Africa, a region facing acute food insecurity. 

This research analyses blue-economy-labelled money flows disbursed between 2017 and 2021, revealing that finance is skewed towards Europe and Central Asia, and in business development and renewable energy. This highlights widespread red flags for social equity outcomes. 

This special issue of the Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Ethics collates four articles in critical ocean studies, indigenous, anti-colonial, queer, gender and intersectional approaches to marine and coastal sea farming. It highlights inventive and societally relevant traditions in feminist STS, environmental ethics, blue – and multispecies humanities and the long histories of indigenous peoples’ connections to coastal areas.