Lightning Talks

The United States seafood supply is deeply interconnected with global seafood production, and with the energy and water systems needed for production, processing, and transport. Demand for seafood is expected to grow; the U.S. government advises higher seafood consumption for nutritional reasons. But wild caught seafood supplies are threatened and harvests have declined, while further increasing aquaculture will require greater energy, water, and feed resource use. At the same time, nearly half of the U.S. seafood supply is lost or wasted.

To keep pace with the demands of a growing global population, innovations will be needed to meet the unprecedented challenge of producing more food in intensively cultivated regions with less net energy and lowered environmental impacts. In this project, researchers from the biophysical, socioeconomic, and computational sciences will investigate two types of innovations using data from the northern U.S. Corn Belt.

This slideshow presents an update of the NRT-INFEWS program at UCLA focusing on integrated urban solutions for food in integrated urban solutions for food, energy, and water management.