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

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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

Blue Economy Movement Gains Traction in Africa Copy

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

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

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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

Kashmir’s Fisherwomen Live Between Hope and Despair

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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

Sustainable Coastal Fisheries in the Pacific Depends on Improving Sanitation

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Improved Husbandry Practices Boosts Aquaculture in Kenya

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The Blue Economy – A New Frontier for Small Island Developing States

Dr Cyrus Rustomjee, is a senior fellow with Global Economy Programme, Centre for International Governance Innovation; and is managing…

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The Blue Economy for the Blue Planet

Cameron Diver is the Deputy Director-General of the Pacific Community (SPC).

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A Blue Economy Investment Facility and associated process would allow governments to accelerate, focus and strengthen moves towards a genuine Blue Economy approach. They would be able to utilize their and private sector expertise and orientate, develop, and tender projects and initiatives which deliver improved livelihoods, improved environmental quality, and improved spending of investment flows - Fishermen at work, Little Bay, Jamaica. Credit: Zadie Neufville/IPS

Advocating for a Blue Economy Investment Facility

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Women Must be at the Heart of Africa’s Blue Economy

Mahawa Kaba Wheeler is Director for the Women, Gender and Development Directorate, Bureau of the Chairperson, at the African Union…

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Expectations High for First Global Blue Economy Conference

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The Start of an Important Global Conversation on the Blue Economy

Jonathan Wilkinson is Canada's Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard. A Rhodes Scholar, Wilkinson holds Masters…

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