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November 28, 2018

Q&A: United Behind the Development of Africa’s Blue Economy

November 28, 2018

VIDEO: Countries Stepping Up Measures to Save Oceans

November 27, 2018

What a Sustainable Blue Economy Looks Like

November 27, 2018

Indigenous Mi’gmaq Communities Establish Themselves in Canada’s Commercial Fisheries

November 27, 2018

Q&A : Solving the Gross Domestic Problem of the Blue Economy

Rahti Begum a fisherwoman sells fish on a roadside in Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir state in India. She says she will be the last woman in her clan to sell fish. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS

November 16, 2018

Kashmir’s Fisherwomen Live Between Hope and Despair


by Umar Manzoor Shah

November 15, 2018

Kenya Looks to Lead the Way in Developing the Blue Economy’s Potential


by Ambassador Macharia Kamau

November 14, 2018

Q&A: All Sustainable Development Goals Relate in Some Way to the Oceans

IPS correspondent Carmen Arroyo interviews PETER THOMSON,…


by Carmen Arroyo

The Fisheries Sector in the Caribbean Community is an important source of income. Four Caribbean countries have done an inventory of the major sources of mercury contamination in their islands. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS

November 5, 2018

Caribbean Looks to Protect its Seafood From Mercury


by Jewel Fraser Fraser

Stingrays, which can be found in the Indian Ocean which surrounds the Seychelles. This flattened fish is closely related to sharks. The Seychelles has become the first country in the world to issue a blue bond, focused on funding sustainable use of marine resources. Credit: Nalisha Adams/IPS

October 31, 2018

Seychelles Issues World’s First Blue Bond to Fund Fisheries Projects


by Kanis Dursin

October 29, 2018

Sustainable Coastal Fisheries in the Pacific Depends on Improving Sanitation


by Catherine Wilson

With the high demand for fish by the tourism sector, Barbados imports the majority of the fish consumed here. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS

October 24, 2018

Barbados Looks Beyond its Traditional Sugar and Banana Industries into the Deep Blue


by Desmond Brown

A coastal city, Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is an area where people have relied on the ocean for food and employment for as long as they have lived there. An increasing number of African countries are now embracing the blue economy for its potential to deliver solutions to their most pressing development needs. Credit: Travis Lupick/IPS

July 16, 2018

Blue Economy Movement Gains Traction in Africa


by Miriam Gathigah

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