Joint Statement on the EU Aquaculture Campaign from the Food Policy Coalition’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Taskforce

A paper co-authored by our Junior Researcher, Gladys Le Goff, with the Stockholm Environment Institute and Leiden University claims that industrial insect farming may not be the climate and animal welfare solution it is often portrayed to be. Greenhouse gas emissions generated from insect production can approach those of chicken and pork, and plant-based and cultivated proteins are more promising alternatives that should not be neglected or under-explored at the expense of investment in insect farming.

Alice Di Concetto will be a speaker at Lewis & Clark Law School’s Center for Animal Law Studies’ inaugural International Aquaculture Law & Policy Symposium on June 5, 2026 at the University of Birmingham, UK. This one-day, in-person event is being held in collaboration with co-hosts Aquatic Life Institute (ALI) and the Multispecies Collective.

Ahead of the first “Food Dialogue,” which will take place on March 5th at the Commission, we joined forced with 15 civil society organizations and sent a joint letter to Commissioners Stéphane Séjourné, Christophe Hansen, and Oliver Varhelyi urging them to take strong measures regarding public food procurement in the EU.