Grimaldi Forum hosts blue food debate for 2050 food security
By Zak Jackson, MonacoViews Editorial
The Blue Economy and Finance Forum at the Grimaldi Forum brought together investors and scientists to examine how ocean-sourced foods could feed ten billion people by 2050.
The Grimaldi Forum hosted the Blue Economy and Finance Forum (BEFF) earlier this month, placing Monaco at the centre of a debate that spans geopolitics, ecology and nutrition. The central question: how do salmon farming, seaweed cultivation and krill harvesting need to evolve if the world is to feed ten billion people by 2050 without accelerating environmental collapse?
Investors and scientists attending the forum argued that conventional fishing and aquaculture are no longer adequate on their own. So-called blue foods, those drawn from marine and freshwater systems, are increasingly contested territory, with supply chains under pressure from climate change, regulatory divergence between nations and growing competition for ocean resources.
For Monaco, which has long positioned itself as a hub for ocean governance through institutions such as the Prince Albert II Foundation, hosting a forum of this kind carries practical weight. The conversations at BEFF are not academic abstractions but investment decisions and policy frameworks that will shape what reaches plates, and at what cost, within a generation.