About this Research Topic
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an action signed by UN member countries including Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs that co-signatory countries have committed to achieve by 2030. Specifically, Goal 14, Life Below Water, is connected to the oceans and to "the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources for sustainable development”. Oceans occupy the largest part of the Earth's surface and play an important role absorbing carbon dioxide emissions thus mitigating global warming impacts. Since the ocean’s market contribution is valued around $3 trillion annually, the world’s population relies on the oceans for their livelihoods (oceans represent the world's largest reserve of protein, and marine fish industries provide jobs to more than 200 million people). Unfortunately, the world's oceans have been heavily impacted by human activities, have been strongly polluted in some locations, fish stocks affected and the loss of natural habitats have occurred.
The increasing pressure on marine/aquatic resources requires urgent actions aimed to optimize the sustainability of the marine food supply chains. To overcome these challenges, the European Commission has committed to the European Green Deal a set of policy initiatives aimed at finding alternative food/energetic resources, the reduction of food loss and waste, as well as their valorization, to follow the principle of the "circular economy" of the Green Deal and contributing to the challenges of the Agenda 2030 for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Aquaculture, marine biotechnologies, thanks to the trajectories of the blue growth, continue to give a strong contribution in the implementation and transfer procedures to realize sustainable marine biobased products, to cultivate organisms able to provide bioactive ingredients, and thus contribute to setting up an industrial green process.
In order to meet the goals evidenced, this Research Topic is interested in collecting contributions, in the form of research papers and reviews, focused on:
• strategies to enrich the health, welfare and quality of aquaculture products to promote environmental and economic sustainability of the sector
• integrated multitrophic aquaculture: from culture to value added bioactive compounds
• valorisation of side streams from fishery and aquaculture to promote the circular economy
• set-up marine organisms culture conditions (from microalgae to seaweeds) to obtain marine bioactive compounds useful for biorefineries
The increasing pressure on marine/aquatic resources requires urgent actions aimed to optimize the sustainability of the marine food supply chains. To overcome these challenges, the European Commission has committed to the European Green Deal a set of policy initiatives aimed at finding alternative food/energetic resources, the reduction of food loss and waste, as well as their valorization, to follow the principle of the "circular economy" of the Green Deal and contributing to the challenges of the Agenda 2030 for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Aquaculture, marine biotechnologies, thanks to the trajectories of the blue growth, continue to give a strong contribution in the implementation and transfer procedures to realize sustainable marine biobased products, to cultivate organisms able to provide bioactive ingredients, and thus contribute to setting up an industrial green process.
In order to meet the goals evidenced, this Research Topic is interested in collecting contributions, in the form of research papers and reviews, focused on:
• strategies to enrich the health, welfare and quality of aquaculture products to promote environmental and economic sustainability of the sector
• integrated multitrophic aquaculture: from culture to value added bioactive compounds
• valorisation of side streams from fishery and aquaculture to promote the circular economy
• set-up marine organisms culture conditions (from microalgae to seaweeds) to obtain marine bioactive compounds useful for biorefineries
Keywords: blue-growth, aquaculture, marine biobased products, bioactive compounds
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