{"id":220575,"date":"2026-04-18T13:48:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220575"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:48:44","slug":"turning-the-tide-how-west-africa-is-reasserting-its-food-sovereignty-through-aquaculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220575","title":{"rendered":"Turning the Tide: How West Africa Is Reasserting Its Food Sovereignty Through Aquaculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is an indictment on the global food system that, despite having some of the richest and most endowed natural resources in the world and a burgeoning youth population, West Africa spends more than $2 billion a year importing aquatic foods to feed its people, almost half of which is spent by C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire alone&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2026\/02\/turning-the-tide-how-west-africa-is-reasserting-its-food-sovereignty-through-aquaculture\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is an indictment on the global food system that, despite having some of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220575-turning-the-tide-how-west-africa-is-reasserting-its-food-sovereignty-through-aquaculture.jpg",630,419,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220575-turning-the-tide-how-west-africa-is-reasserting-its-food-sovereignty-through-aquaculture-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220575-turning-the-tide-how-west-africa-is-reasserting-its-food-sovereignty-through-aquaculture-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220575-turning-the-tide-how-west-africa-is-reasserting-its-food-sovereignty-through-aquaculture.jpg",630,419,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220575-turning-the-tide-how-west-africa-is-reasserting-its-food-sovereignty-through-aquaculture.jpg",630,419,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220575-turning-the-tide-how-west-africa-is-reasserting-its-food-sovereignty-through-aquaculture.jpg",630,419,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220575-turning-the-tide-how-west-africa-is-reasserting-its-food-sovereignty-through-aquaculture.jpg",630,419,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220575-turning-the-tide-how-west-africa-is-reasserting-its-food-sovereignty-through-aquaculture.jpg",630,419,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220575-turning-the-tide-how-west-africa-is-reasserting-its-food-sovereignty-through-aquaculture.jpg",630,419,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220575-turning-the-tide-how-west-africa-is-reasserting-its-food-sovereignty-through-aquaculture-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}