European faces a sustainability challenge affecting food security, as the availability and accessibility of healthy and nutritious food is deeply affected by climate, societal and economic change. The EU farm-to-fork strategy evidences the need for increasing the resistance and resilience of food production systems in the face of global change, and for providing instruments to farmers to achieve better environmental results and strengthen their position in the supply chain.
Aquaculture (i.e. fish farming) is an essential element in addressing food and protein demand, as fish has generally a higher nutritional value than meat at a fraction of the carbon footprint.
