Rights and representation support justice across aquatic food systems
Date
2022Author
Hicks, Christina C.
Gephart, Jessica A.
Isaacs, Moenieba
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Injustices are prevalent in food systems, where the accumulation of vast
wealth is possible for a few, yet one in ten people remain hungry. Here,
for 194 countries we combine aquatic food production, distribution
and consumption data with corresponding national policy documents
and, drawing on theories of social justice, explore whether barriers to
participation explain unequal distributions of benefits. Using Bayesian
models, we find economic and political barriers are associated with lower
wealth-based benefits; countries produce and consume less when wealth,
formal education and voice and accountability are lacking. In contrast, social
barriers are associated with lower welfare-based benefits; aquatic foods are
less affordable where gender inequality is greater.