Budstikke
Budstikke
The Norwegian budstikke is a traditional wooden stick used in Norway historically. The budstikke held important messages inside and was passed on to spread news or warnings quickly across a region. The budstikke symbolizes community cooperation and collective action in Norwegian culture, and nowadays, it is used metaphorically to call for action or to rally people together.
Starting this year, the Global Action Network will adopt the budstikke as a symbol to carry key messages of events to encourage boundary-crossing between people with different knowledge and perspectives. This initiative aims to promote interdisciplinary sciences and science-based policy making, with a specific focus on the roles of aquatic foods in food security and nutrition, which are often overlooked in public policies.
Through this effort, we are calling for actions from healthy waters to healthy people to include aquatic foods as a key food source for achieving food security and improving nutrition.
Messages from One Ocean Science Congress 2025 Town Hall event “Optimising the Potential of Aquatic Food Systems – Science Needs for a Blue Transformation”
- Science must demonstrate the comparative benefits of aquatic food systems
- Aquatic food systems science must better engage in a food systems approach
- Science must be grounded in equity and justice to be optimised effectively and sustainably
- Science must drive nutrition-focused aquatic food systems governance
- Science must drive sustainable, nutrition-sensitive, and equitable aquaculture
Messages from UN Ocean Conference 2025 side event “The Ocean We Depend On – Achieving SDG 14 Through Sustainable Governance”
- International and regional cooperation is essential
- Science and evidence-based policy are fundamental to sustainable ocean governance and sustainable aquatic food systems
- Capacity building and inclusion are key to long-term sustainability
- The role of aquatic foods in nutrition and food security must be recognized and strengthened