Ocean Action Panel 9: Promoting the role of sustainable food from the ocean for poverty eradication and food security - 2025 UN Ocean Conference.
Our Ocean, Our Future, Our Responsibility - The 2025 UN Ocean Conference will be co-hosted by France and Costa Rica and held in Nice, France, from 9 - 13 June 2025.
Guiding Questions:
1. What are the key actions required to maximize the contribution of aquatic foods to eliminating hunger and malnutrition?
2. How can we ensure that consumers, especially the most vulnerable, have access to quality aquatic foods at affordable prices, while securing the livelihoods of fishers, fish farmers and fish workers?
3. What best practices can be adopted to minimize environmental impacts from fisheries and aquaculture while ensuring that they can produce enough aquatic foods to satisfy increased demand?
4. How can we sustainably expand aquaculture to expand opportunities for increased incomes and support the consumption of aquatic foods?
5. How can data collection and research be used to understand the impact of smallscale actors on local food security, explore actual food consumption patterns and composition of aquatic foods, and determine loss and waste and by-product utilization throughout aquatic food value chains, especially in low- and middle-income countries?
6. How can policy frameworks be strengthened or reinforced to ensure sustainable access to aquatic foods, especially for the most vulnerable?
7. What are the most effective community-based management models for ensuring sustainable resource use for food and nutrition security?
8. What role can social protection measures play in supporting small-scale actors and reducing poverty in fishing communities?
9. What strategies can be implemented to ensure a sustainable supply of aquatic foods and secure aquatic food livelihoods in the face of climate change?
10. How can innovation and technology be used to make aquatic food value chains more sustainable in social, economic and environmental terms?
11. How can Governments and businesses work together to minimize the risk of aquatic food-borne illnesses and other hazards for consumers?
12. How can market access be improved for small-scale fishers, in particular in remote or marginalized areas?
13. How can food safety and profitability for fisherfolk be enhanced, and environmental impact and fish loss and waste reduced, while ensuring affordability for low-income food- and nutritionally insecure consumers?
14. What are the barriers to implementing food safety monitoring and early warning systems and how can they be overcome? How can these systems build consumer trust and mitigate the impact of climate change and pollution on aquatic food safety?
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The high-level 2025 UN Ocean Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (the 2025 UN Ocean Conference) will be co-hosted by France and Costa Rica and held in Nice, France, from 9 - 13 June 2025.
The overarching theme of the Conference is "Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean". The Conference aims to support further and urgent action to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development and identify further ways and means to support the implementation of SDG 14. It will build on existing instruments to form successful partnerships towards the swift conclusion and effective implementation of ongoing processes that contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of the ocean.
The Conference will involve all relevant stakeholders, bringing together Governments, the United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations, international financial institutions, other interested international bodies, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, academic institutions, the scientific community, the private sector, philanthropic organizations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities and other actors to assess challenges and opportunities relating to, as well as actions taken towards, the implementation of Goal 14.
The Conference will build on the previous UN Ocean Conferences, hosted by Sweden and Fiji in 2017 in New York and by Portugal and Kenya in 2022 in Lisbon.
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