Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Aquaculture has contributed immensely to food security globally. Due to high water content, nutritional content, and microbial growth, seafood is highly perishable. However, the spoilage mechanisms of some seafood remained unknown. Therefore, understanding the microbial spoilage mechanism of seafood will help to prevent food waste and economic loss especially in developing countries. 

My doctoral research at the University of Tasmania, Australia has over the last four years focused on understanding the microbial spoilage mechanism of packaged seafood. My research unveiled the causes of spoilage of commercially packaged shellfish. The outcome of my research has, therefore, helped to prevent spoilage and also the development of a draft tool for predicting the shelf-life of packaged live shellfish. My research also identified volatile organic compounds that can be used as freshness and spoilage indicators in packaged seafood in addition to the study on the succession of the microbial community present in the seafood.

Overall, my research is helping to prevent seafood spoilage, thereby enhancing food security and achieving Zero Hunger (Sustainable Development Goal 2).

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You may be interested in the story "From ethnobotany to mainstream agriculture: socially modified Cinderella species capturing ‘trade-ons’ for ‘land maxing'" for a sustainable world.

Best wishes

Roger

Ongoing global changes can make unprecedented alterations in the state of some natural resources and their ecosystems services (ESs), especially in mountain agricultural landscapes. Considering the risk suggested by the Millennium Ecosystems Assessment, this study collected descriptive (qualitative) data in 14 Nepalese mountain farming communities through field observation, group discussion, and personal interview, and investigated changing conditions of ESs of various natural resources in agricultural landscapes and their repercussions on mountain communities. The results showed that global changes induced new resources and institutions for mountain farming practices and altered important socioecological processes determining ESs.

They have contributed to reductions in natural hazards and climate change and improvements in recreational and waste management services in mountain farming landscapes. Biodiversity status changes of the external factors in the agricultural landscapes are mixed: reasonably enriched plant species diversity and wildlife habitat, and seriously degraded or extinct indigenous species and genetic diversity. One of the serious negative changes is they have contributed to extinction of locally adaptable natural capitals and community heritages that had been developed through century-long socioecological processes and passed through extreme climatic variabilities and other environmental stresses at numerous times. The study determined that some recently emerging local biotic conditions result mainly from changes in the condition of water resources, not from changes in climatic conditions.

The external factors also hampered human input into soil formation in degraded lands, soil quality, soil-water conservation and local knowledge systems. Overall, the effects of the changes found mixed on human and environment health. This multiple natural resources-based study has contested some arguments and conclusions of popular literatures.

Nutritional Diversity Sciences in Panama is Unlocking the Door to Individual Sustainability.

As individuals realize their potential and increased performance when consuming an adequate dietary diversity to address their nutrition needs, the individual is forced to seek permaculture sourced foods, in turn increasing the demand for diversified agriculture systems, and reducing the demand of the mono culture chemical agriculture model. If no permaculture is discoverable in the individual's area, they may be interested in learning to produce their own natural diversely grown robust foods operation.

The realization that the stomach's digestive culture, now commonly known as the microbiome, which is the personal, individual garden of youth, vitality, performance and ability growing within us (the stomach), has been a very effective piece of information so we have noticed, in explaining the importance of diet diversity, and this is because there are waves of references to it from 'science,' and it is the hot topic today in diet science. The fact that this education wave comes to us in the nuclear age, 2019, is fairly baffling although with the focus now, looking forward the progressive science of nurturing and designing the digestive garden, is a fun and interesting science, that requires little schooling - at least if you can come up to speed with the Nutritional Diversity core requirements, and experience.

Let me remind also that it has been expert after expert and PhD after PhD that has ruined human health, robbed one nutrient after another and got us into an agriculture model that kills our polinators off and kills us too - so even though it helps to reference this world of science who has effectively harmed more than help, at least in this field it will help us all in the long run to also mention that these guys are the wrong source of information.

Individual information discoveries (or re-discoveries) such as that we need to eat a diverse spectrum of biological species in order to maintain proper health and support optimal ability and performance, and learning the skills in growing diverse crops, or harvesting wild nature for nutrition, should be the top priority in developing a food sustainable world, or reliable set of hunger crisis strategies. Education on how to use the land and the body should be basic, known by all and most important to our social culture that everyone know how to sustain themselves well. Curiously, rocket scientists may know nothing of the plant world we depend on, and more so the poor, the rich and the whole world over, outside of a few herbalists, botanists, students of native history or nature and permaculturists; the art of self sustainability is a lost one. Thank God, we have a team of experimental geniuses in the diet world, to lead us into better health and performance.

That being said, I can't agree more with the FAO #1 goal of Eliminating poverty everywhere. This too is likely relived simply by the knowledge to do better and to use the full cycle of life and transformation of elements within the biology that is near primary to the human experience. Poverty is likely of the same root as the slave diet that almost the entire world lives by - bad information.

Poverty is the worst form of violence. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Goal number two of eliminating hunger ...well, as I have already said above is as simple as sharing  the cutting edge diet information here. So share this information and teach one to fish. I need not quote for that...

To "Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages," simply use the Nutritional Diversity Guide, and you will achieve this health and wellbeing for all who adheres to it.

Inclusive and quality education for all, is deliverable like never before, yet, the distractions for young people are also there like never before on the same platform. That is the internet. So education about permaculture, diet and nutrition is all there, but who cares, and who is looking at that, are the questions with sad answers.

A cultural discipline and realization of the importance of discipline is lacking as if humans made it their purpose to rid themselves of every beneficial ritual it once had developed, and replace it with some sort of practice for lack of control or lack in character in something.

Rural poverty often times has no caring intermediary between their villages and the working information and knowledge, which creates a great opportiunity for the entrepenual or humanitarian spirited to come up with advocateds and trainers to deliver the information to those who need it  the most. This I think would be a fun job, and it's a job that creates jobs, spreads vital nutrients and diversity and raises endless innovated potentials in human performance, and in our ecology that we so depend.

Los kiddos urbanos now are into dance clubs, toxins and digital forms of exploration and entertainment far more that any pursuit of actual validity in anything worthwhile, like physical or mental performance or creating a new thing. Here lies a problem that education alone can not solve, especially easily accessible education like internet based permaculture learning for example, without the oversight or internal discipline cultivated in the young person is unseen, never watched, never learned and we watch our youth drift slowly into degrees of poverty and ignorance on all fronts. Learning from mistakes does not happen in the world of education, that world takes no responsibility for it's errors and neither do it's graduates who often times have minds with zero objectivity. The amount of confusion, and congestion in the informational or guiding realms are at all time highs. This is something that is only cleared up by limiting technological associates, going into nature, andgetting a full specturm Nutritional Diversity diet.

Diversification of energy manufacturing is great in itself. Solar generators can be placed through the world with minor impacts to nature. Individual and household energy generation while still highly underrated and likely widely not understood, is really a very capable, effective and efficient field of investment for the family.

"You could take a corner of Utah and Nevada and power the entire United States with solar power." - Elon Musk

Inclusive economic growths can start at the individual level also, and being that successful this would be the most sustainable standard, again I point the individual to diverse food production and independent individual energy production. In Costa Rica we have seen small hydro-plants developed for as little as 3 thousand dollars and they did not seem to effect the life around them at that small size. Solar and air plants are much cheaper and combined with batteries, led lights and diverse panel placement, these systems are more than sufficient to run the needs of the household or small farm.

Homemade production, and diverse goods are officially in demand. Thanks to the cutting edge athletic study here in Panama, along with their educational efforts, the market for individuals seeking alternative agriculture goods, and wild specialties also is growing exponentially. New ideas to deliver well sourced diverse nutrition to consumers like this new supplement are really going to help individuals realize how they should be eating and what kind of interchange with nature is going to get them to where they need to be. New business models are needed for the new species to hit the market looking for a whole new way.

The way we see it, Nutritional Diversity Diet and the individual discoveries made within it's dedicated studies end up being the number one goal that addresses all of the rest, pretty much unlocking the door to individual sustainability and much more.

Reference

Elon Musk just made an incredibly important point about solar energy - Business Insider

Application of ND Science - Nutritional Diversity

« Do not look away, do not hesitate. Recognize that the world is hungry for acts, not words. Act with courage and vision ». Are words that have been spoken by Mr Nelson MANDELA and have touched my soul.

Driven by a universal unconditional love for humanity, guided by hope for a better future for humanity, in 2017, I began the creation of the first international NGO of speculative and operative aspirations based in the Caribbean in the territory. French (https://www.humanityfortheworld.org).

Indeed, Humanity For The World (HFTW), the first humanitarian lobby in the Caribbean, is a non-governmental, non-religious, non-religious, non-profit, humanitarian and professional non-governmental organization specializing in the reduction of suffering in all its forms and in all its forms. defending the fundamental rights of all people in distress around the world and working in the world through the prism of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In an island context, such as that offered by Martinique, such an enterprise remains marginal. Without funding to date, relying solely on the will of its members, the organization based in Martinique, enjoying a reputation in several countries (India, Indonesia, Haiti, Togo, Ghana, Senegal, Cote d ivoire, France (Martinique, Paris)), nevertheless manages to have a lasting impact on the world by participating in the setting up of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we invite you to consult our achievements online (https: // www.humanityfortheworld.org/our-realizations) and our Activity Report (2017-2018) online (https://www.humanityfortheworld.org/business-reports).

Even so, it has been demonstrated in 2018 that hunger has globally declined worldwide from 1 billion to 800 million individuals, According to a UN report, published in September 2018 world hunger continues to rise , 821 million people are now suffering from hunger and more than 150 million children are stunted, threatening the Zero Hunger goal.

Hunger in the world is an abnormal situation due to the unequal distribution of wealth on earth. These plural and multilevel inequalities are maintained by unjust world economic systems of predation favoring the domination of the strong over the weakest. Despite the efforts deployed by the United Nations to federate the States around the question of Humanity, the lure of gain, the profit at any price takes over the reason of Men. Change will only happen if men, without distinction of colors, cultures, religions, become aware of the universality of humanity. Only unconditional love could tip the future in favor of the human cause. With more than 800 million men still living in extreme poverty (with 1.24 and / or 1.90 dollard per day), hunger, inequality, poverty define the contours of the faces of misery. Today, Men are no longer aware of the situation of the world and change can only come from Man for Man.

Our proposal to wipe out hunger in the world, is to urge each organization working for the humanitarian cause to focus its efforts not on a single Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but on the joint achievement of at least 3 Sustainable Development Goals. (SDGs) by action, and in this case, to achieve SDG2 more quickly, we advocate working towards the joint achievement of the following 3 SDGs: SDG1: Poverty Eradication, SDG2: Combating Hunger or Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture, SDG10: Reduced Inequality, and annual assessment of Dedicated Indicators by area:

SDG1: Poverty Eradication

Indicators

• Monetary poverty rate
• Poverty rate in living conditions
• Intensity of income poverty
• Renunciation to consume protein for financial reasons
• Renunciation of care for financial reasons

SDG2: Fight Hunger or Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

Indicators

• Renunciation to consume protein for financial reasons
• Prevalence of overweight and obesity
• Average diversity of arable crops
• Organic farming and farms of high environmental value
• Animal Exposure to Antibiotics (Animal Level of Exposure to Antimicrobials Indicator)
• Consumption of phytosanitary products
• Local breeds at risk of extinction
• Water withdrawals

SDG10: Reduced inequalities

Indicators

• Growth rate of average standard of living
• Income inequalities
• Inequalities of heritage
• People with broadband at home
• People who have connected to the internet in the last three months
• Renunciation of care for financial reasons
• Housing overcrowding rate

In Haiti

To illustrate our remarks, in 2017, Humanity For The World (HFTW) set up a humanitarian action in Haiti, more specifically at the school "Momance pioneers" in the community Momance located in the city of Léogâne (https://www.humanityfortheworld.org/post/our-actions-in-the-direction-of-humanity). This humanitarian mission was originally intended to jointly address SDGs 1: Poverty Eradication, SDG3: Fostering Well-Being and Health, SDG4: Quality Education, SDG5: Gender Equality, SDG10: Reduced Inequality. We observed, at the end of a year, that the population, prolonged our action by buying plans of corn, tomatoes, started a small agricultural production which participates today to feed sustainably the inhabitants of the community of momance. In conclusion, by feedback, in seeking to improve the lives of children and adults in the community, we finally had an action that had a long-term impact on the achievement of SDG2.

In Martinique

We have observed that in Martinique, referring to sustainable development, often return to refer to SDG7: Use of renewable energies. The analysis of this situation leads us to understand how the effects of a public policy in favor of the environment can lead to a lack of global information on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indeed, to encourage the French population to change their way of life, by adopting ecological gestures in favor of the environment and the safeguard of the planet, the French state had to put in place a number of measures aimed at attributing tax and financial counterparties to households and businesses.

The observation is the following: there is a lack of knowledge of other areas of Sustainable Development.

The services of the French state such as DEAL Martinique (Direction of the Environment and Development of the Litoral of Martinique) in partnership with certain associations of Martinique, initiated a work of awareness on the SDGs14: aquatic life, ODD15: Protection of terrestrial flora and fauna, SDG6: Sanitation water.

Nevertheless, Humanity For The World (HFTW) is the only organization on the island to offer an unprecedented vision by participating in the transversal achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

To act effectively, we must educate, inform, sensitize the population on the various global issues in relation to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which is why we communicate daily on the subject through social networks. To quote the last 2 major communications :

• From 30 to 05 May 2019, we linked a non-financial partnership with the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and Solidarity, to raise awareness about SDG2. To do this communication media (video and images) in French, English and Chinese have been published on a specialized online media (MediaTerre) and on social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Linkedin, Pinterest) , to raise awareness, to inform on the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG1, SDG2, SDG10.(https://www.humanityfortheworld.org/post/humanity-for-te-world-hftw-partenaire-du-minist%C3%A8re-de-la-transition-%C3%A9cologique-et-solidaire-seed)

Video : (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=102&v=zrbNgf_6Sow)

• From 01 to 07 April 2019, we linked a non-financial partnership with the REFEDD "French Network of Students for Sustainable Development", to raise awareness on the 17 SDGs, To do this communication media (video and images) in French, English and Chinese have been published on a specialized online media (MédiaTerre) and on social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Linkedin, Pinterest), to raise awareness, to inform about the Sustainable Development Goals , including SDG1, SDG2, SDG10 (https://www.humanityfortheworld.org/post/humanity-for-the-world-hftw-partenaire-de-la-refedd-pour-la-promotion-des-17-odd-sedd-2019)

Video : (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJs8mg4cJhE)

Without having received any subsidies, our motivation is fueled by our vision for Humanity, "universal unconditional love". Thus, since 2017, we have begun training, information and democratization of the 17 SDGs among the people of Martinique and the world. Through the simple fact of our existence on a French territory of the Caribbean, by the communication of our actions, by the lobbying on the social networks and the breasts of the international spheres of power, in favor of the realization of the 17 SDGs we hope to arouse vocations, because the more we will be working for the cause, the more we will look at a better world.

« We believe that education is also about the power of example »

Dr.h.c Audey POMIER FLOBINUS.

Dear Colleagues,

First of all, let me thank you for the very interesting stories you shared over the past few days.

They paint a very interesting picture on how the realization of SDG2 is being tackled in your countries and of the challenges that remain. Your first-hand experience touches on many different issues with land degradation, intersectoral cooperation, funding, food loos & waste, nutrition, education and animal husbandry all being mentioned as important elements. This multitude of aspects reflect the very essence of the SDG and their comprehensive and cross-cutting nature. They also showcase the complexity of our fight against hunger and the efforts that are necessary to move towards a Zero Hunger world.

I would like to encourage you to keep sharing your stories, allowing fellow practitioners to learn from your experience of what worked – or didn’t – and how you overcame the challenges.

Looking forward to your stories!

Max

Name of Contributor: Olutosin A. Otekunrin

Institution Affiliation: Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Nigeria

Submitted date: 5 June, 2019

Contribution to the Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum), an online discussion in Starting from 30 May to 20 June, 2019 with title “Sustainable Development Goals- your story of creating a food secure world” with special focus on SDG2 Zero Hunger.

Sustainable Development Goals - your story of creating a food secure world

Sustainable Development Goals - SDG2 “Zero Hunger”

The Nigerian Story- Prospects and Challenges. This contribution is attached here.

Thank you

Culinary Lesson for Women – CL4W

Little effort by FNVC with significant promise to control food waste and make more food go round in the household

Lack of functional knowledge and skills on food and nutrition among housewives is responsible for their careless attitude to hygiene in food handling; excessive food loss and waste especially during kitchen preparation, and their inability to prepare and serve balanced nutrition meal to household members despite abundant food items around. All family members are affected but critically affected are new born and weaning babies, school-age children, pregnant and lactating women, the sick and elderly. This is the prevalent situation in most sub-Sahara countries that pose great concern towards achieving the SDG2 by the year 2030 (only 11 years a head). For some countries, communities and even families, culinary knowledge and skill is paramount priority now to contain hunger and malnutrition challenges within tolerable SDG2 levels where the remaining years to achieving the desired goal appears just impossible. In a community that is bedeviled with poverty, corruption and poorly enlightened yet naturally with vast food resources, vocational culinary lesson becomes most feasible option particularly for core actors (women) in the household food value chain to empower them for efficient and effective handling of food and nutrition issues in the family. It is on this premise that Food and Nutrition Vocational Center (FNVC) which is an adult education NGO provides short intensive weekend vocational training on food and nutrition for housewives in a densely local government area of Kano metropolitan in northern Nigeria. Three hours per day in borrowed classroom from local primary school within the housewives’ close surrounding area. Training focused on food hygiene and safety; household food loss and waste control, recipe innovation and homebound food business management. It is free training that lasts ten weekends and turned out 20-30 housewives every quarter (three months). An immediate opportunity that availed to the trained women is school meal business, preparing high quality safe and affordable meal to primary school pupils during morning break period. Been highly concerned caregivers to school-age children the trained women were quick to relate acquired knowledge with emerging opportunity in the ongoing official school feeding program and they are making tangible impact.

 

Rabiu Auwalu Yakasai

Founder/Director

FNVC

Kano Nigeria    

English translation below

Bonjour,

Heureux de prendre part à cette discussion.

Je suis porteur de deux projets:

L'un porte sur la création d'une ferme porcine et l'autre sur la création d'un rucher dans mon village.

La ferme porcine naisseur-engraisseur permettra de vulgariser les races à fort rendement carcasse et de reproduction qui rivalisent largement nos races locales. Les éleveurs de ma localité pourront alors booster la quantité de proteipro animales qu'ils mettent sur le marché en utilisant les porcelets de race améliorée. L'insuffisance des protéines animales de bonne qualité pourrait être résolus.

Le second projet portant sur la création et la gestion d'un rucher pertra aux paysans de varier leurs productions et d'accroître leur revenu par l'adoption de cet élévage qui de pratique peu.

Pour l'instant les activités de mes projets sont en pauses par manque de moyens.

Par rapport à l'impact des ODD2 dans ma localité RAS. Rien n'a changé, par rapport depuis l'adoption des ODD2.

Merci pour votre attention.

Happy to take part in this discussion.

I work on two projects:

One relates to the creation of a pig farm and the other to the creation of an apiary in my village.

The hog-fattening pig farm will popularize breeds with high carcass yield and reproduction that largely compete with our local breeds. Breeders in my community can then boost the amount of animal protein they put on the market using improved breed piglets. The insufficiency of animal protein of good quality could thereby be solved.

The second project on the creation and management of an apiary will allow farmers to vary their productions and increase their income by adopting this breeding which takes relatively little practice.

For the moment the activities of my projects are on hold for lack of means.

In relation to the impact of the SDGs2 in my locality RAS. Nothing has changed since the adoption of the SDGs2.

Thank you for your attention.