DOI: 10.5061/dryad.69p8cz95r
title: Dataset: Global market drivers for sustainable cephalopod food systems

description: 1. Aquatic food systems are important contributors to global food security
 to satisfy an intensifying demand for protein-based diets, but global
 economic growth threatens marine systems. Cephalopod (octopus, squid,
 cuttlefish) fisheries can contribute to food security; however their
 sustainable exploitation requires understanding connections between
 nature’s contributions to people (NCP), food system policies and human
 wellbeing. 2. Our global literature review methodology examined what is
 known about cephalopod food systems, value chains and supply chains and
 associated market drivers. For analysis, we followed the IPBES conceptual
 framework to build a map of the links between cephalopod market drivers,
 NCP and good quality of life (GQL). Then we mapped cephalopod food system
 dynamics onto IPBES (in)direct drivers of change relating to catch, trade
 and consumption. 3. This research contributes knowledge about key factors
 relating to cephalopods that can support transitions towards increased
 food security: the value of new aquatic food species; food safety and
 authenticity systems; place-based innovations and empowerment of
 communities; and consumer behaviour, lifestyle and motivations for better
 health and environmental sustainability along the food value chain. We
 outline requirements for a sustainable, equitable cephalopod food system
 policy landscape that values nature’s contributions to people, considers
 UN Sustainable Development Goals and emphasises the role of seven
 overlapping IPBES (in)direct drivers of change: Economic, Governance,
 Sociocultural and Socio-psychological, Technological, Direct Exploitation,
 Natural Processes and Pollution. We present a novel market-based
 adaptation of the IPBES conceptual framework – our ‘cephalopod food system
 framework’, to represent how the cephalopod food system functions and how
 it can inform processes to improve sustainability and equity of the
 cephalopod food system. 4. This synthesised knowledge provides the basis
 for diagnosing opportunities (e.g. high demand for products) and
 constraints (e.g. lack of data about how supply chain drivers link to
 cephalopod NCP) to be considered regarding the role of cephalopods in
 transformations towards a resilient and more diversified seafood
 production system. This social-ecological systems approach could apply to
 other wild harvest commodities with implications for diverse marine
 species and ecosystems and can inform those working to deliver marine and
 terrestrial food security while preserving biodiversity.
description: We conducted a global review of scientific literature published
 in English relating to cephalopod market drivers. Drivers were explained
 by indicators that influenced market dynamics in positive, negative,
 neutral or ambivalent directions with respect to different market actors
 (e.g. relating to market growth/consumer acceptance for a given species or
 product). We examined study objectives to identify individual drivers
 discussed, which were then sorted by theme into ‘cephalopod market
 drivers’ and analysed qualitatively. Among the 101 studies analysed, we
 identified 110 individual drivers among study objectives which we grouped
 by topic into 29 ‘cephalopod market drivers’. The ODS document
 ‘Dataset-GlobalMarketDriversForSustainableCephalopodFoodSystems’ contains
 summary data relating to these 29 market drivers to demonstrate how market
 drivers are associated by topic with key variables.
description: The dataset is a comma-delimited file, created in Microsoft Excel
 and converted to an open-source ODS format.