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20 April 2016, Undercurrent News: France-based Petit Navire, a part of Thai Union Group, will reduce its use of yellowfin tuna from the Indian Ocean, reports le Telegramme.

India Deploys Submarine-Hunting Surveillance Aircraft to Seychelles

(The Diplomat; 22 March 2016) The Indian Navy has dispatched one of its most advanced maritime patrol/anti-submarine warfare aircraft, the P-8I Neptune, to Seychelles for aerial surveillance of the island nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), an Indian Ministry of Defense press statement reveals.

The Blue Economy, the SDGs and Innovation: We have to take the Path Less Travelled

The Blue Economy is being heralded as an innovative agenda for setting the pace towards a new Seychelles. As a new development concept, the Blue Economy needs to be unpacked. We need to know what’s under its hood, how it works and how to fuel it. More than that, we need to know what it is not – the Blue Economy cannot be new branding for “business as usual” and definitely, no one wants to see old wine in a new bottle. And, the entire concept and practice of the Blue Economy needs research and development – R&D – to drive innovation that is needed. (Shah, 2013).

Seychelles supports Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI)

Seychelles is one of the first countries to support the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI), a process aimed at enhancing responsible and sustainable fisheries through transparency.

Designated authority to be put into place soon

Seychelles Nation, Tuesday, 9th February 2016: A designated authority is to be put into place soon as the technical committee of the Seychelles-Mauritius joint commission on the Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) meets for the 12th time since 2002.

Pimp my Agriculture

Agriculture in Seychelles needs a serious make over to meet 21st Century challenges

Climate Catch 22: How do we build capacity to adapt when we don’t have capacity to get adaptation projects?

Small island states complain that procedures for the Green Climate Fund are too bureaucratic

Save the Adaptation Fund

ECO Newsletter COP21 December 2015: The Adaptation Fund (AF) is a UNFCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) success story: more than 50 adaptation projects are currently underway in Latin America, Africa and Asia providing support to vulnerable people.

Economic inequality in a high income country: Can the Blue Economy Mind the Gap?

Recent emotive statements by politicians vying for the post of President in both the United States and Seychelles made me realize that no matter how different the Presidential races may be between these two countries, there are indeed some important similarities.

A new way to walk

The People 2/10/2014:  When addressing the UN General Assembly last week, President Barrack Obama remarked “Seychelles President James Michel said it was up to the countries that burn the most coal, oil and gas to do the most. If they don’t do something, the Earth will not survive and that will be the end of us all, Michel said”