Researchers
Rosamond L. Naylor (Principal Investigator) - Stanford University

Seafood plays a critical role in global food security and protein intake and is being supplied increasingly by aquaculture (the farming of fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants). China is the dominant leader in this field, supplying about two-thirds of global aquaculture production. China also consumes an estimated one-third of global aquaculture output, a figure that is expected to increase as the country proceeds along its developmental trajectory. The proposed project will build on our recent field surveys in China (supported previously by the Packard Foundation), with two aims: 1) to finalize our analysis and publish peer-reviewed papers on China’s role in global aquaculture, seafood trade, and feed use; and 2) to convene a small international group of researchers working on Chinese aquaculture to expand the scope of our initial results. The anticipated output will be a set of unique and potentially high profile papers on China’s rising role in this important area of global food production, trade, and food security. They would follow a prior set of papers by Naylor and colleagues on global aquaculture trends and impacts that have been published, for example, in Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Rosamond Naylor

Funding provided by
• FSI China Fund