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.

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.

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. 

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 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. 

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.

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. 

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.