Complex, diverse and changing agribusiness and livelihood systems in the Amazon

FA Costa, ED Assad, DH Bebbington, ES Brondizio… - Acta …, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
Finding pathways to more sustainable agriculture and resource use remains the most
pressing challenge for Amazonian countries. Characterizing recent changes in the structure …

Small pelagic fish supply abundant and affordable micronutrients to low-and middle-income countries

JPW Robinson, DJ Mills, GA Asiedu, K Byrd… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Wild-caught fish provide an irreplaceable source of essential nutrients in food-insecure
places. Fishers catch thousands of species, yet the diversity of aquatic foods is often …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a low-carbon footprint: Current status and prospects for aquaculture

Z Zhang, H Liu, J Jin, X Zhu, D Han, S Xie - Water Biology and Security, 2024 - Elsevier
Aquaculture is one of the fastest-growing agricultural sectors globally and is becoming
increasingly important for producing sustainable and healthy diets with relatively low climate …

Commercially traded fish portfolios mask household utilization of biodiversity in wild food systems

KJ Fiorella, ER Bageant, SH Thilsted… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The global biodiversity that underpins wild food systems—including fisheries—is rapidly
declining. Yet, we often have only a limited understanding of how households use and …

Declining diversity of wild-caught species puts dietary nutrient supplies at risk

SA Heilpern, R DeFries, K Fiorella, A Flecker… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Although biodiversity loss adversely influences a variety of ecosystem functions, how
declining wild food diversity affects nutrient supplies for people is poorly understood. Here …

Species trait diversity sustains multiple dietary nutrients supplied by freshwater fisheries

SA Heilpern, GA Herrera‐R, KJ Fiorella, L Moya… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Species, through their traits, influence how ecosystems simultaneously sustain multiple
functions. However, it is unclear how trait diversity sustains the multiple contributions …

Are Peruvians moving toward healthier diets with lower environmental burden? Household consumption trends for the period 2008–2021

J Sanchez‐Matos, I Vázquez‐Rowe… - Journal of Industrial …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Peru is one of the most diverse countries in the world in terms of food production, but also
suffers a wide range of food security challenges, including malnutrition, the impact of natural …

Biodiversity underpins fisheries resilience to exploitation in the Amazon river basin

SA Heilpern, SA Sethi, RB Barthem… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Inland fisheries feed greater than 150 million people globally, yet their status is rarely
assessed due to their socio-ecological complexity and pervasive lack of data. Here, we …

Towards sustainable aquaculture in the Amazon

FS Pacheco, SA Heilpern, C DiLeo, RM Almeida… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Aquaculture in the Amazon holds the potential to meet increasing food demands while
offering economic opportunities in a region facing deforestation and biodiversity loss …

The Andes–Amazon–Atlantic pathway: A foundational hydroclimate system for social–ecological system sustainability

CF Beveridge, JC Espinoza… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The Amazon River Basin's extraordinary social–ecological system is sustained by various
water phases, fluxes, and stores that are interconnected across the tropical Andes …