Aquaculture can take us toward a more sustainable and hopeful food future.
Changes in the world’s population and demographics mean we need to double food production in the next 25 years. Our current agricultural systems aren’t poised to deliver what we need. Fish farming with its unmatched productivity and extraordinary resource frugality offers the step change to agriculture the planet needs.
Fourth in a series on aquaculture. Our food supply needs, roughly, to double by mid-century. Even with evolving improvements, terrestrial agriculture will be severely challenged to meet our requirements. The discontinuous change aquaculture provides offers hope that we will meet our need for healthy and nutritious food raised sustainably.