Could seaweed feed the world? 海藻能填補世界糧食短缺嗎？

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Prof Ana Queiros, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
“Do we think seaweed can feed the world? With the growing population we think that seaweed will offer a cheaper alternative to healthy foods with a lower impact in terms of our environment.”

阿娜·奎羅斯教授普利茅斯海洋實驗室
“海藻能不能填補世界糧食短缺？隨著人口的增長，我們認為海藻可以成為健康食品的平價替代品，而且它對我們的環境影響也更小。”

Seaweed farming has become the fastest-growing food industry in the world.

海藻養殖業已經成為世界上發展最快的食品產業。

Kirk Haworth, Chef, Restaurateur
“Delicious.”

柯克·霍沃思廚師、餐館老板
“味道好極瞭。”

Prof Ana Queiros, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
“It certainly has a role to play if we think about the impacts of climate change on food production such as floods and droughts.”

阿娜·奎羅斯教授普利茅斯海洋實驗室
“海藻養殖肯定在食品生產中占有一席之地，因為這項產業受洪水和幹旱等氣候變化的影響沒有那麼大。”

The world needs a 70% increase in food production by 2050. With increasing demand for alternative food sources, seaweed harvesting is growing by $5bn every year.

到2050年，世界糧食產量需要增加70%。隨著人們對替代性食物來源的需求不斷增加，海藻收割產值正以每年50億美元的水平增長。

Prof Ana Queiros, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
“Seaweed farming in particular is an important economic activity traditionally in countries in Asia and in the western Indian Ocean region. It is also the fastest-growing agriculture sector in Europe due to an increased interest in seaweed food products.”

阿娜·奎羅斯教授普利茅斯海洋實驗室
“海藻養殖這項產業一直以來是亞洲和西印度洋地區一項重要的經濟活動。它也是歐洲發展最快的農業產業，因為歐洲對海藻食品的興趣日益濃厚。”

China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and the Philippines are the world’s largest seaweed-producing countries.

中國、日本、韓國、印度尼西亞和菲律賓是世界上最大的海藻生產國。

But seaweed farming and products are also important in coastal areas like Zanzibar, empowering local women.

海藻養殖和海藻產品在桑給巴爾這樣的沿海地區也很重要，給當地女性帶來瞭自立自足的機遇。

Mila Makame Hajj, Seaweed farmer, Zanzibar
“Seaweed has really helped me. I did not have furniture which I can now buy. [I can afford] Children’s school fees. Helping my husband with money.”

米拉·瑪卡玫·哈吉桑給巴爾海藻養殖戶
“海藻真的幫瞭我大忙。我之前沒有傢具可用，現在能買得起瞭。[我現在付得起] 孩子的學費，還能在經濟上幫助我丈夫。”

Mariam Khalid Ally, Seaweed farmer, Zanzibar
“I really love this job. It’s the job that my elders do, and as a young person, whenever I see them doing the hard work, I feel it’s better I pitch in and help.”

瑪麗亞姆·哈利德·阿利桑給巴爾海藻養殖戶
“我真的很喜歡這份工作。我的長輩們就做這份工作，作為一個年輕人，每當我看到她們在辛勤勞作，我就覺得自己應該加入進去一起幫忙。”

Seaweed is a common ingredient in food from Japan, China and South Korea. Now it is becoming increasingly popular in Western dishes. Seaweed is rich in fibre, iodine and omega-3 fatty acids.

海藻是很多國傢食品中的常見原料，比如日本、中國和韓國。現在它在西餐中越來越受歡迎。海藻中富含纖維、碘和歐米伽3脂肪酸。

Kirk Haworth, Chef, Restaurateur
“Seaweed is so versatile. It’s got so much umami, so much richness, so much fishiness. And it’s great for a vegetarian or plant-based diet because it also gives extra nutrients to those that aren’t having fish. But some ways to incorporate it into your food is blending nori into your salt and making, like, a seaweed salt.”

柯克·霍沃思廚師、餐館老板
“海藻的吃法特別多。它味道鮮美、香味馥鬱、吃起來有魚的味道。它非常適合吃素食和植物性飲食的人，因為它可以為不吃魚的人提供額外的營養。把海藻融入日常飲食中的一個方法是將海苔混合到鹽裡，制成像海苔鹽一樣的食品。”

Seaweed could help feed the world, and also play a major role in fighting climate change.

海藻可以幫助填補世界糧食短缺，也在應對氣候變化方面發揮重要作用。

Prof Ana Queiros, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
“Seaweed absorbs CO2 as they grow, one of the main gases causing climate change. Seaweed products are also used as cattle feed. We’ve seen that the use of seaweed additives in cattle reduces methane emissions from this food product by about 90% and that’s an incredible effect because methane is one of the main gases causing climate change.”

阿娜·奎羅斯教授普利茅斯海洋實驗室
“海藻在生長過程中會吸收二氧化碳，而二氧化碳是導致氣候變化的主要氣體之一。海藻產品也被用作牛飼料。有證據表明，在牛飼料中加入海藻類添加物可使牛排放出的氣體中的甲烷量減少約 90%，這一成效意義重大，因為甲烷是導致氣候變化的主要氣體之一。”