GLOBAL ACTION NETWORK
Sustainable Foods from the Ocean
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).
Relevant Actions
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Relevant Events
2nd UN Food Systems Summit +4 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
Photo: Andreas Omvik/norden.org
The EAF-Nansen Programme celebrates 50 years in 2025, marking half a century of dedicated partnership between FAO, Norway, coastal countries, and regional organizations to promote sustainable fisheries management to achieve food and nutrition security.
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.
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.
5 June, 2025
OOSC2025 Town Hall Event
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.
9 June, 2025
UNOC2025 Side Event