Feed Solutions
Feed Solutions ToolkitThe SFP Aquaculture Feed Solutions Toolkit is your one-stop resource for tackling climate change, habitat, and biodiversity risks of aquaculture feed.
The Toolkit brings together tools, standards, initiatives, and platforms from multiple organizations, highlighting the latest advancements in mitigating the risks linked to a diverse array of ingredients used in compound feed production.
Combined with continued improvements in planning and management, managing the risks of aquaculture feed can ensure that aquaculture provides a sustainable low-carbon protein source while preserving and restoring our natural ecosystems and biodiversity.
How do I use the Toolkit?
Our Guide to Using the Feed Solutions Toolkit includes advice for first-time users plus guidance on addressing climate change, environmental impacts of feed in your supply chain, and setting climate and environmental targets.
Why is addressing the risks of aquaculture feed important?
- Aquaculture can meet increasing demand for seafood while offering a low-carbon alternative to other animal food products.
- However, aquaculture feed remains a significant climate change and environmental hotspot – with risks such as land conversion, deforestation, overexploitation, pollution, and bycatch from the production or capture of feed ingredients.
- Acting on these issues can help your company meet your Scope 3 climate-related targets, as well as those linked to environmental risks such as habitat loss and biodiversity decline.
Topics outside the scope of the Toolkit
- The Toolkit is a resource repository and is not a methodology, risk assessment, standard, or improvement initiative. It does not score or rank tools or organizations.
- The Toolkit is focused on the sourcing and selection of feed and its ingredients and excludes information on methods and technologies for more efficient feed application.
- While not specifically targeting reductions in the feed conversion ratio (FCR), crucial for efficient feed use and mitigating climate change and environmental impacts, the Toolkit connects users to tools incorporating FCR into their criteria, notably feed standards.
- The Toolkit centers on climate change and environmental risks but recognizes the critical importance of social issues such as impacts on communities, livelihoods, and forced labor. Many featured tools and organizations actively address these concerns alongside climate change and environmental risks.
Acknowledgments
SFP would like to thank IDH and the IDH Aquaculture Working Group on Environmental Footprint’s Secretariat, ThinkAqua, The Nature Conservancy, and representatives of other organizations for their review of the briefing that introduced the Toolkit. Their advice, feedback and suggestions of tools contributed to the Toolkit’s development.
The development of this Toolkit was made possible through funding by the Walmart Foundation. The contents of this Toolkit and support for its use are those of SFP alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Walmart Foundation.
Improve the sustainability of your feed
Contact SFP to learn more about how you can address the climate change and environmental risks associated with aquaculture feed and its ingredients.