GLOBAL ACTION NETWORK
Sustainable Food from the Oceans and Inland Waters
for Food Security and Nutrition
Sustainable food from the oceans and inland waters plays a significant role for food security and nutrition.
This Global Action Network will mobilize actions to include aquatic foods (from the oceans and inland waters) as a key food source for achieving food security and improved nutrition in the Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025) and in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Global Action Network will continue until 2030 – bridging the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition and the UN Decade of Ocean Science (2021–2030).
Network Activity Updates
Network in Action
Upcoming and recent events hosted or co-hosted by the Network
Latest Newsletter
Upcoming Events
2nd UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4)
27–29 July 2025, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
International Congress of Nutrition
24–29 August 2025, Paris, France
The 14th IFDC International Food Data Conference
1–3 September 2025, Rome, Italy
ICOBTE & ICHMET 2025
22-26 September 2025, Busan, Korea
13th WIOMSA Scientific Symposium
28 September-3 October 2025, Mombasa, Kenya
IUCN World Conservation Congress
9-15 October 2025, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Actions and Knowledge
Budstikke
We adopt the budstikke as a symbol to carry key messages of events to encourage boundary-crossing between people with different knowledge and perspectives, and to call for actions from healthy waters to healthy people to include aquatic foods as a key food source for achieving food security and improving nutrition.
5 June, 2025: OOSC2025 Town Hall Event
Science must demonstrate the comparative benefits of aquatic food systems.
Aquatic food systems science must better engage in a food systems approach.
9 June, 2025: UNOC2025 Side Event
International and regional cooperation is essential.
Science and evidence-based policy are fundamental to sustainable ocean governance and sustainable aquatic food systems.
