A university webinar exploring the diversity and accessibility of aquatic food systems and their contributions to human health, nutrition and livelihood security.
Date: Saturday, 4 December 2021
Time: 04:00-05:00 (UTC+8)
Click here to watch the event recording
(Passcode: Hopkins2021!)
Every year during the fall season, Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station holds a graduate-run seminar for their faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students. For the month of December, WorldFish’s Global Lead in Nutrition and Public Health and 2021 World Food Prize Winner Shakuntala Thilsted has been invited as the honorable speaker.
Thilsted joined the session to draw on her wealth of expertise in the diversity of fish and aquatic food species, their nutritional and health benefits to human populations, their cultural-specific connections to communities from different regions in Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
She also discussed the importance of transitioning the narrative of food systems from 'feeding to nourishing' people and planet and solutions to unlock food, nutrition and livelihood security for many poor and vulnerable communities in low-and-middle-income countries by harnessing the potential of aquatic food systems, including small-scale fisheries and aquaculture.
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(Passcode: Hopkins2021!)