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42.3. The MTDS[Medium Term Development Strategy] places particular focus on building resilience through increased self-reliance. It provides a complete scenario for achieving broad-based social and human capital resilience, economic and environmental resilience. More specifically it aims to do the following: (...)
• Accomplish environmental resilience by promoting the integration of adaptation and mitigation measures for environmental protection.

42.5. Additionally, the Strategy[Medium Term Development Strategy] aims for effective institutions, improved infrastructure and connectivity and energy efficiency to building economic resilience and therefore plans for continuous capital investments by the private, public, and quasi-public sectors. (...)

42.6. The Strategy[Medium Term Development Strategy] also takes into account the severity of the threats posed by climate change and climate variability and the requirement to secure the country's development against their adverse impacts. It therefore promotes environmental preservation as an adaptive measure for natural disaster and adverse weather phenomena. Its strategic objectives in this context is to improve environmental sustainability, and reduce vulnerability to climate change/disaster.

42.9. Under the overall vision of "Uniquely Saint Lucian with Global Appeal" the STDR[Strategic Trade Development Roadmap] elaborates the following strategic objectives:
(...) c. Ensuring that increased trade is environmentally friendly, and its benefits widely shared.

42.10. (...) The NES[National Export Strategy] also identifies trade facilitation, innovation, renewable energy, education/skills development and access to finance as cross-cutting themes which can support the main export sectors.

43.2. (...) Promoting sustainable and responsible tourism; stimulating demand; generating community awareness and involvement; improving, diversifying and spreading products and experiences island wide; ensuring visitor security, safety and comfort; and organizing for effective and well managed tourism growth are priorities identified to facilitate sustainable development.

43.5. Saint Lucia's Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock sectors contributed an estimated XCD 68 million or 1.9% to the economy in 2018. Although the industry saw a 5.8% gain from 2017 to 2018, the sector's growth has been declining since 2008. Loss of preferential trade, loss of competitive and comparative advantage, and the devasting effects of climate change are all blamed for the sector's deterioration. (...)

43.6. In 2021, value added in the agriculture industry was predicted to have increased by 5.1%, with inconsistent growth across subsectors. This result mirrored the reduced agricultural yield, which was significantly hindered by a confluence of supply-side variables, including natural disasters, market access issues, pest and disease outbreaks, and praedial larceny. (...)

43.10. Strategically, the Government is pursuing the following objectives: (...)
• Restructuring and Revitalization of the Saint Lucia Marketing Board to provide the following functions: o provision of support services required to stimulate the development of new sustainable value-added commercial local agro-food products.
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43.12. The manufacturing sector, while small and highly concentrated, continues to be a major contributor to Saint Lucia's economic growth and development and therefore maintaining the long-term sustainability and resilience of the sector is of paramount importance to the Government. (...)