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Seaweed Aquaculture for Food Security, Income Generation and Environmental Health in Tropical Developing Countries

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank Group
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-24T15:40:09Z
dc.date.available2016-08-24T15:40:09Z
dc.date.issued2016-07-01
dc.description.abstractTo meet carbon emissions targets, more than 30 countries have committed to boosting production of renewable resources from biological materials andconvert them into products such as food, animal feedand bioenergy. In a post-fossil-fuel world, an increasingproportion of chemicals, plastics, textiles, fuels and electricity will have to come from biomass, which takesup land. To maintain current consumption trends theworld will also need to produce 50–70 percent more foodby 2050, increasingly under drought conditions and onpoor soils. Depending on bioenergy policies, biomassuse is expected to continue to rise to 2030 and importsto Europe are expected to triple by 2020. Europe isforecast to import 80 million tons of solid biomass peryear by 2020. The expansion of seaweed farming in tropical developingcountries could have large positive impacts on localpoverty, ecosystem management and climate changemitigation. Being able to produce enough biomass and protein for the growing and increasingly wealthyhuman population with no new land and freshwater expropriation for agriculture would dramatically reducehumanity’s ecological footprint relative to currenttrends and projections. The growth of seaweed farming is constrained primarily by lack of proper marine spatial plans and appropriate financing. The current industry in the tropics isbased on inshore areas where multiple conflict ingusers vie for space.The need for technological improvements has consequentimplications for scale of investment, which couldbe a hindrance to many potential seaweed growers,creating space for government engagement to supportnew smaller and medium-scale entrepreneurs.Other opportunities for engagement by governmentsand international agencies committed to sustainable development include investments in transport infrastructure,storage facilities, food preparation and/or hydrocolloid extraction plants, applied researchin solar drying and biogas technology inter alia,technical training and marine spatial planning.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26587134/seaweed-aquaculture-food-security-income-generation-environmental-health-tropical-developing-countries
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/24919
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/24919
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectaquaculture
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectseaweed
dc.subjecttropics
dc.subjectcarbon
dc.subjectbiofuel
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.titleSeaweed Aquaculture for Food Security, Income Generation and Environmental Health in Tropical Developing Countriesen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.crossref.titleSeaweed Aquaculture for Food Security, Income Generation and Environmental Health in Tropical Developing Countries
okr.date.disclosure2016-07-21
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26587134/seaweed-aquaculture-food-security-income-generation-environmental-health-tropical-developing-countries
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/24919
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b0845252b8_4_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum26587134
okr.identifier.report107147
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okr.language.supporteden
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okr.region.countryArgentina
okr.region.countryAustralia
okr.region.countryBrazil
okr.region.countryChina
okr.region.countryIndonesia
okr.region.countryJapan
okr.region.countryKorea, Democratic People's Republic of
okr.region.countryKorea, Republic of
okr.region.countryMadagascar
okr.region.countryMalaysia
okr.region.countryNamibia
okr.region.countryNew Zealand
okr.region.countrySri Lanka
okr.region.countryTanzania
okr.region.geographicalCentral America
okr.region.geographicalNorth America
okr.region.geographicalOceania
okr.topicEnergy::Fuels
okr.topicEnergy::Renewable Energy
okr.topicWater Resources::Coastal and Marine Resources
okr.topicWater Resources::Water and Food Supply
okr.topicWater Resources::Water and Human Health
okr.unitENR GP GLOBAL (GENGE)
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