At the recent meeting on ‘Integrating Nutrition into the ASEAN Food Security Framework and Strategic Plan of Action on Food Security in ASEAN Region’, Michael Phillips, Malcolm Beveridge and Stephen Hall made a presentation on fish and food and nutrition security; fish as food; and fish, food and nutrition security scenarios in the ASEAN region.
Key messages include:
- Fish is important for ASEAN food and nutrition security
- Fish is a preferred item in the diets of many, especially poor, people
- It is an important source of quality and highly bioavailable protein, but more importantly of essential fatty acids and micronutrients: at key life stages (e.g. the first 1000 days). Its importance should be measured in relation to consumption of other foods, intra- household food distribution
- The species we eat are changing, as is the method of production
- the rise of aquaculture
- intensification of culture methods
- Changes impact nutrient content; implications…
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Dr. Bukar Ali USMAN, mni 