The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical framework to guide governments in catalyzing and scaling up public and private investment in Blue Carbon as part of their blue economy development. It does this by describing in detail a Blue Carbon Readiness Framework, a step-by-step,...

The concept of development has drawn a big debate across the globe in the past few decades as it has resulted in multi-factoral pervasive effect in the socio-political and economic realms of the people and the surrounding habitats. As the nature of development is complex and varied so is it’s...

'Agroindustrialization' comprises three related sets of changes: (a) growth of commercial, off-farm agro-processing, distribution and input provision activities, (b) institutional and organizational change in the relations between farms and firms both upstream and downstream, such as a marked...