Medidas de Gestao das Pescarias Marinhas e Aquicultura 2019 The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 | Page 185

THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 2018 BOX 26 CABO VERDE: ADOPTING BLUE GROWTH POLICIES TO HARNESS THE POTENTIAL OF THE OCEAN Cabo Verde is a small island developing State surrounded by ocean. Not surprisingly, the fisheries sector plays a key role in its economy, contributing to employment, livelihoods, food security and overall GDP. In 2015, the Government of Cabo Verde adopted a Blue Growth Charter to coordinate all blue growth policies and investments and to ensure that efforts cut across all ministries and sectors. Through this formal commitment to achieving blue growth, the country is working to create the necessary enabling conditions to begin targeted interventions and investments aimed at harnessing the potential of the ocean to promote economic growth and create employment for its population. In support of policy and institutional reforms, FAO is providing capacity building for the Strategic Intelligence Unit of the Ministry of Finance, which is responsible for implementing the transition strategy. With FAO assistance in developing an investment plan and a multi-annual programme for the transition, the Ministry of Finance has secured a USD 2.98 million funding grant from the African Development Bank Middle Income Country Technical Assistance Fund. BOX 27 MANGROVE CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES IN KENYA To reverse trends in mangrove deforestation in Kenya’s coastal areas, FAO helped to form community and youth groups involving 162 men and 120 women to raise awareness on the value of the ecosystem services provided by mangrove forests. Between 2015 and the end of the project in December 2017, target communities and youth groups planted over 335 000 seedlings in about 45 ha of degraded mangrove forests. The mangrove programme also developed a number of knowledge products to provide reliable information and strategic advice to government policy- makers, community stakeholders and potential donors. These include economic valuations for key coastal ecosystems, fish value chain appraisals of production and post-harvest conditions in selected sites, and marine spatial planning for mariculture. Furthermore, increased knowledge of the project area and its ecosystem have highlighted the potential for new activities in addition to mangrove restoration, such as fish processing and value addition, aquaculture, beekeeping and mariculture associated with ecotourism. contribute to alleviation of povert y, hunger and malnutrition and sound management of aquatic resources while recognizing the need for inclusive growth. to the Blue Growth Charter in Cabo Verde (Box 26) to practical communit y efforts such as communit y mangrove replanting in Kenya (Box 27), restoring productivit y of freshwater fisheries in Malawi and implementing the fisheries and aquaculture component of the Global Action Programme (GAP) on Food FAO is now moving from concept to action, and shifting from normative work such as support | 169 |