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FAO’s Blue Growth Initiative – interview with Indroyono Soesilo, director in FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department

Indroyono Soesilo is the Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Use and Conservation Division in the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. In the following interview he elaborates on what the Blue Growth Initiative includes and why this work is crucial for Small Island Developing States.
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Sustainable development of Small Island Developing States a global litmus test

Coping with climate change should be seen as more than just a question of survival for small island countries - the international community should view it as a challenge to take unified action and notch up efforts to shift to a sustainable model of development, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today.

"Climate change is happening before our eyes. Rising sea levels, higher air and sea surface temperatures, and changing rainfall patterns are affecting countries worldwide. But there is no doubt that Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are more vulnerable," the FAO chief said during remarks delivered at the 3rd International UN Conference on SIDS in Apia, Samoa (1-4 September).
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02/09/2014

UN Conference on Small Island Developing States opens in Samoa

A renewed political commitment to tackle the many unique, sustainable development challenges facing the world's small island states, is expected to be the most important outcome of a United Nations conference that opened in Samoa today.

The Third International Conference on Small Developing States (SIDS) from 1-4 September in Apia, Samoa also seeks to build partnerships aimed at addressing issues such as food security, the safeguarding and harnessing of aquatic resources, climate change and environmental degradation.
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News on FAO Deep-seas High Seas Programme - Summer 2014

FAO's Fisheries and Aquaculture Department newsletter of the Deep-Sea High Seas (DSHS) Programme. In this issue:
  • ABNJ Deep Seas Project Approved
  • RFMO Collaboration
  • New Identification Tools for Deep-sea
  • Cartilaginous Fishes of the Indian Ocean
  • Testing the VME database
  • FAO Regional Workshops on VMEs in the SE Atlantic Ocean and North Pacific
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03/10/2014

More aquaculture production needed to feed a growing and urbanizing world

Six countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the world’s largest consumer of fish products, have come together to draft a work plan on the sustainable intensification of aquaculture for ‘Blue Growth,’ the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), announced yesterday.

Representatives from the Governments of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Viet Nam are working with FAO global and regional fishery and aquaculture experts in the development of an FAO regional initiative to enhance production of aquaculture in an environmentally sound and sustainable way – “Blue Growth.”
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