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PART 4 OUTLOOK AND EMERGING ISSUES
BOX 28
GLOBAL ACTION PROGRAMME (GAP) ON FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION IN
SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES
The 52 territories that are classified as small island
developing States have a combined population of over
50 million people. SIDS face particular challenges
owing to their small size and isolated geographic
position. Because of their lack of institutional and
human capacity in both the public and private sectors,
as well as their disadvantage in gaining influence and
access to benefits from a range of regional and global
processes, enabling partnerships are required for
sustainable development of SIDS. The Small Island
Developing States Accelerated Modalities of Action
(SAMOA) Pathway (UN, 2014), an outcome document
of the third International Conference on Small Island
Developing States (Apia, 1 to 4 September 2014),
articulates a joint vision from 42 States on issues
affecting the sustainable development of SIDS,
including their aspirations for fisheries and
aquaculture.
As requested in Paragraph 61 of the SAMOA
Pathway, FAO facilitated the development of an action
plan to address the worsening food security and
nutrition situation in SIDS, in collaboration with the
United Nations Department of Economic and Social
Affairs (UNDESA) and the Office of the High
Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island
Developing States (OHRLLS). At the 40th session of the
Conference of FAO in July 2017, the Global Action
Programme on Food Security and Nutrition in Small
Island Developing States (GAP), a multistakeholder and
multisectoral programme, was launched to support the
implementation of the SAMOA Pathway.
GAP is structured to facilitate and guide actions to
achieve food security and improve nutrition in SIDS. It
has three objectives:
„ „ creation of enabling environments for food
security and nutrition;
„ „ promotion of sustainable, resilient nutrition-
sensitive food systems;
„ „ empowerment of people and communities for
improved food security and nutrition.
Securit y and Nutrition in Small Island
Developing States (Box 28). FAO is currently
applying this approach in 23 countries around
the world (Figure 46). sector and can threaten sustainable socio-
economic development at the local, national,
regional and global scales – IUU fishing, decent
working conditions, human trafficking,
sustainabilit y issues and climate change, to
name some of the most pressing – in addition to
povert y and food insecurit y.
Using FAO’s Blue Growth Initiative as a holistic
framework for implementing GAP in the marine sectors
can help to address challenges such as unsustainable
resource use, resource depletion from IUU fishing
activity, youth unemployment and lack of access to
international markets, and can help to identify new
economic opportunities from SIDS ocean resources
while progressing towards the targets of SDG 14.
Blue Forum
Blue growth will only be sustainable and long-
lasting if it engages all stakeholder groups
across fisheries and aquaculture and along the
value chain. Finding solutions to global
challenges must involve ever yone in the sector
working together in a comprehensive and
coordinated way. To this end, FAO is developing
the Blue Forum, a neutral platform enabling
stakeholders from industr y, civil societ y, NGOs,
government and academia to discuss and seek
solutions to contemporar y issues that affect the
The seeds of the Blue Forum were sown in 2013. It
will be unique in giving each stakeholder group an
equal voice and allowing stakeholders to reach
consensus on best practices and methods to help
to achieve FAO’s objectives related to food security
and nutrition and the SDGs. Stakeholders will
network online through the Blue Forum website
and meet when necessary. The Blue Forum is
intended to be a catalyst for multisector »
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