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Could seaweed feed the world? 海藻能填补世界粮食短缺吗？

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Could seaweed feed the world? 海藻能填补世界粮食短缺吗？

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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·奎罗斯教授       普利茅斯海洋实验室
“海藻能不能填补世界粮食短缺？随着人口的增长，我们认为海藻可以成为健康食品的平价替代品，而且它对我们的环境影响也更小。”

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

海藻养殖业已经成为世界上发展最快的食品产业。

Kirk Haworth, Chef, Restaurateur
"Delicious."

柯克·霍沃思       厨师、餐馆老板
“味道好极了。”

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·奎罗斯教授       普利茅斯海洋实验室
“海藻养殖肯定在食品生产中占有一席之地，因为这项产业受洪水和干旱等气候变化的影响没有那么大。”

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，世界粮食产量需要增加70%。随着人们对替代性食物来源的需求不断增加，海藻收割产值正以每年50亿美元的水平增长。

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·奎罗斯教授       普利茅斯海洋实验室
“海藻养殖这项产业一直以来是亚洲和西印度洋地区一项重要的经济活动。它也是欧洲发展最快的农业产业，因为欧洲对海藻食品的兴趣日益浓厚。”

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

中国、日本、韩国、印度尼西亚和菲律宾是世界上最大的海藻生产国。

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

海藻养殖和海藻产品在桑给巴尔这样的沿海地区也很重要，给当地女性带来了自立自足的机遇。

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·玛卡玫·哈吉       桑给巴尔海藻养殖户
“海藻真的帮了我大忙。我之前没有家具可用，现在能买得起了。[我现在付得起] 孩子的学费，还能在经济上帮助我丈夫。”

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."

玛丽亚姆·哈利德·阿利       桑给巴尔海藻养殖户
“我真的很喜欢这份工作。我的长辈们就做这份工作，作为一个年轻人，每当我看到她们在辛勤劳作，我就觉得自己应该加入进去一起帮忙。”

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.

海藻是很多国家食品中的常见原料，比如日本、中国和韩国。现在它在西餐中越来越受欢迎。海藻中富含纤维、碘和欧米伽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       厨师、餐馆老板
“海藻的吃法特别多。它味道鲜美、香味馥郁、吃起来有鱼的味道。它非常适合吃素食和植物性饮食的人，因为它可以为不吃鱼的人提供额外的营养。把海藻融入日常饮食中的一个方法是将海苔混合到盐里，制成像海苔盐一样的食品。”

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

海藻可以帮助填补世界粮食短缺，也在应对气候变化方面发挥重要作用。

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·奎罗斯教授       普利茅斯海洋实验室
“海藻在生长过程中会吸收二氧化碳，而二氧化碳是导致气候变化的主要气体之一。海藻产品也被用作牛饲料。有证据表明，在牛饲料中加入海藻类添加物可使牛排放出的气体中的甲烷量减少约 90%，这一成效意义重大，因为甲烷是导致气候变化的主要气体之一。”