Bernadette Deka-Zulu (PhD Researcher-Public Enterprise)IntroductionThis week, am taken back to 14 years ago-2009, in Banjul-The Gambia where we held the first ever Conference of African Ministers for Fisheries and Aquaculture (CAMFA-1), under the Partnership for African Fisheries (PAF); an African Union-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) led initiative aimed at promoting sustainable fisheries and aquaculture practices in Africa. The initiative birthed a vigorous campaign of the Blue Economy in Africa, brought together African ministers responsible for fisheries and aquaculture to discuss issues related to the sector and to develop policies and strategies to promote sustainable development of the sector, followed by the Malabo the CAMFA-2 held in Malabo in 2014, and subsequently the Malabo declaration on African Fisheries. Spearheaded by a Malawian Expert who headed the PAF at the NEPAD Agency then, Dr Sloans Chimatiro, I could only as a Zambian youth then- (privileged to work in such noble Pan-African spaces) be encouraged that a […]
Exploring the Potential of Blue Economy in Zambia
