Fisheries and Food Security

Our team has conducted extensive sustainable food systems research, focusing on the importance of aquatic foods in the context of global interactions among climate change, fisheries, and nutrition security. We have published a series of papers to understand the harms of climate and environmental change on human nutrition. As examples, we have examined sea temperature rise, thermal heat stress and coral bleaching, and improper fisheries management as stressors on people’s access to seafood. Conversely, we have also examined the role of small-scale fisheries, improved fisheries management, aquaculture innovation and proliferation, and marine protected areas as mechanisms to improve people’s access to seafood and nutritional wellbeing. Our team has done this using both global datasets and empirical case studies in Madagascar, Kiribati, and other locations.