
Participatory seagrass mapping for biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries
In West Africa, marine and coastal conservation is crucial. Community-driven MPAs like Joal-Fadiouth empower local communities and benefit ecosystems.
To share the wealth of global knowledge on aspects of Integrated Ocean Management (IOM) with the 22 countries of the Abidjan Convention’s region, the Mami Wata project takes advantage of existing IOM solutions that have been successfully implemented already. The Blue Solutions presented here are part of and featured on the Marine and Coastal Solutions Portal on the PANORAMA platform. These solutions are being contributed by a broad range of providers from across the planet.
“The training allowed me to better understand the spatial planning and to better organize myself in the management of the coastal space, as well as to better apprehend coastal landscapes and their planning”.
In West Africa, marine and coastal conservation is crucial. Community-driven MPAs like Joal-Fadiouth empower local communities and benefit ecosystems.
Cape Verde’s biodiverse protected areas face resource and data challenges. Fundação Tartaruga, with MAA-BV and BIOPAMA, works to protect them.
The initiative focuses on helping to restore rice fields and mangroves that were once abandoned.
Local communities in coastal areas were supported to face to erosion and coastal pollution.
Kawawana (“our local heritage to be preserved by us all”) is an estuarine territory where the ancient governance and management rules –renovated and agreed upon also by the municipal and regional governments – are finally again respected.
This solution helped to stop the poaching of sea turtles on the most important nesting beach of Côte d’Ivoire, the beach of Mani-Kablaké located west of the country.
The project replanted mangroves in 7.5ha out of 30ha of degraded areas along the shore of the Muni lagoon in Ghana.
PAEDE (Program to support Arable and Livestock Farmers for Local Development) formed the local community in sustainable techniques of agronomy and aims to raise the political, administrative and traditional awareness.
The solution allows for creating a rapid alert network in the event of sawfish captures, to harmonize and coordinate responses that aim at their protection in the West African sub-region.
OPED is transforming the local fishing industry by providing energy-efficient alternatives to cutting down trees to smoke fish, a primary driver of mangrove forest loss in the region.
Net-Works is an award-winning initiative that redesigns global supply chains to reduce marine plastic, replenish declining fish stocks and improve the socio-ecological resilience of marginalized coastal communities living in biodiversity hotspots of developing countries.
A novel method of market gardening was developed: Synecoculture, based on the high-density mixed association of edible plants without the application of tillage, fertilizer, and chemicals.