In news– FAO has recently released the Blue Transformation Roadmap (2022-2030).
What is Blue Transformation?
Blue Transformation is a targeted effort by which agencies, countries and dependent communities, use existing and emerging knowledge, tools and practices to secure and sustainably maximize the contribution of aquatic (both marine and inland) food systems to food security, nutrition and affordable healthy diets for all.
Key highlights of the report-
- This document outlines a roadmap for the transformation of aquatic food systems – ‘Blue Transformation’, providing a vision for the FAO’s work on aquatic food systems for the period 2022–2030.
- This roadmap for Blue Transformation aligns with the 2021 Declaration for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022–2031.
- It focuses on the elements that would maximize the contribution of aquatic food systems to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- The roadmap recognizes the importance of aquatic food systems as drivers of employment, economic growth, social development and environmental recovery, which all underpin the SDGs.
- It also recognizes the need to support the 2030 Agenda through the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable aquatic food systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind.
- It provides an overall framework to support planning, implementation, monitoring and communication of FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division (NFI)’s work.