Regional Categories – Page 3 – Sustainable Blue Economy Conference 2018

The sprawling informal community of Lord Howe Settlement, in Solomon Islands’ capital city of Honiara, lies along the Mataniko River. The piped sewerage system in the capital does not extend to unplanned settlements as waste, especially untreated sewage, has become a dire threat to coastal waters and their fisheries. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS

November 17, 2018

Sustainable Coastal Fisheries in the Pacific Depends on Improving Sanitation

by Catherine Wilson

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

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

November 16, 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

November 16, 2018

Blue Economy Movement Gains Traction in Africa Copy

by Miriam Gathigah

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