New Security Beat

Key takeaways: - In Africa, 93% of people in the fish sector are employed in #wildfisheries, 7% in #aquaculture - Women make up about 50% of fish industry workers, with 90% engaged in post-harvest activities - West African small-scale #fisheries employ about 1.7 million people

We need to be looking at broader food systems as part of the environmental framework. Wild-caught #fisheries are too big to ignore and better integration into project management is needed. - Barbara Best former Senior Coastal Resource Management and Policy Specialist @USAID

Amy Ickowitz, Team Leader for Sustainable Landscapes & Livelihoods @CIFOR outlines preliminary results from a recent study on direct contributions of forests to diets in #Zambia

Survey results of the study showed that only 58% of women consumed any fruit in the week preceding the survey; just 11% had a fruit an average of at least once a day; For the 42% of women consuming any fruit, wild fruit was consumed more than 2x as frequently as domestic fruit

Wild fruits in #Zambia cannot go unnoticed. They comprise 68% of fruit consumed by women in 7 day period. Over a one-year period, on average, they contributed 25% of the recommended daily intake of fruits- Amy Ickowitz @CIFOR

Forests provide 1/3 of people's recommended intake of food. If we cut that down, where are people's food going to come from? - Amy Ickowitz @CIFOR

The share of the environmental burden of disease is disproportionately born by people in the developing world. @TaylorHRicketts @UVMVermont @GundInstitute explores the relationships between global change and human #health

One study @TaylorHRicketts @UVMVermont @GundInstitute highlights examined how watershed conditions affect downstream diarrheal disease among children. 800,000 kids in the study across 49 countries. Results show: upstream tree cover and human activity impact childhood diarrhea