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4.5. The National Policy for Saint Lucia's Fisheries Sector (NPFS) 2020 2030 is intended to address current challenges and emerging issues with a focus on the following priorities areas – sustaining fisheries resources; enhancing benefits derived from the fishery; improving climate change and disaster resilience; promoting social development; and enhancing the role of stakeholders in decision-making and institutional strengthening.

4.6. The Saint Lucia Agricultural Policy Framework and Strategy (2016-2021) (...) offers the action plan to achieve the goal of an environmentally responsible agricultural sector that contributes to economic growth and development. (...)

4.8. Saint Lucia's Sectoral Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan for the Agriculture Sector (Agriculture SASAP) 2018 2028 under the National Adaptation Planning Process consists mainly of priority cross sectoral and sectoral adaptation measures for eight key sectors/areas and a segment on the limits to adaptation. This is complemented with Sectoral Adaptation Strategies & Action Plans (SASAPs). One of priority sectors for adaptation action is tourism, together with water; fisheries; infrastructure and spatial planning; natural resource management (terrestrial, coastal, and marine); education; and health.

4.9. The Agriculture SASAP[Sectoral Adaptation Strategies & Action Plan] consists of 45 adaptation measures deemed critical for building climate resilient agriculture systems in the country. The adaptation measures are grouped under 14 strategic objectives and contribute to 4 major expected outcomes, namely: (i) enhanced enabling environment for climate adaptation action in the agriculture sector; (ii) enhanced nutrition, food availability, quality, and security through adaptation in the agriculture sector; (iii) strengthened partnerships for scaling up climate resilient agriculture; and (iv) built adaptive capacity to climate variability and extremes in the agriculture sector. The SASAP provides direction on implementation and funding, which is expected to be derived from both national and international sources, and implementation is expected to mostly occur through the inclusion and execution of SASAP components and adaptation measures in individual national and regional development and climate change-focused projects and programmes. The SASAP contains indicative outputs to facilitate the planning and design of such projects.

4.10. The authorities have also put in place a National Policy for Saint Lucia's Fisheries Sector (NPFS) 2020-2030. The NPFS is intended to address current challenges and emerging issues with a focus on the following priorities areas: sustaining fisheries resources; enhancing benefits derived from the fishery; improving climate change and disaster resilience; promoting social development; and enhancing the role of stakeholders in decision-making and institutional strengthening.

4.13. The Ministry of Agriculture maintains support programmes and services, such as (...) the Land and Water Management Programme, aimed at conserving the land and water base for sustainable agricultural production; (...)

4.16. (...) [The Agriculture and Fisheries Incentives Act, Cap 7.18 contains a number of support measures for the agricultural sector. Benefits consist of an exemption from the payment of duties; Other benefits include an exemption from the payment of income tax.] Under the Act, potentially approved agricultural projects include (i) the purchase of agricultural inputs, equipment and materials, watering systems, aquaculture equipment, fishing equipment and safety gear, waste disposal systems, soil and water conservation systems, general livestock supplies; bee keeping supplies; and any other tools, equipment, or materials to be used for producing, processing, or providing agricultural produce or products or fish and fish products; (ii) establishing, developing, and equipping a facility; (iii) the introduction of clean and renewable energy; (iv) the purchase of a boat or fishing vessel in support of the agricultural project; and (v) the purchase of a commercial motor vehicle in support of the agricultural project.

4.91. As part of its Strategic Trade Development Roadmap, the Government developed a strategy to strengthen the competitiveness of the business, diversify the tourism offer to create more opportunities for SMEs, and ensure environmental sustainability through targeted policies and enhanced business and public participation (Section 2).

1.1. (...) As a small island developing state, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is vulnerable to exogenous shocks such as natural disasters and global market fluctuations.

Table 1.1 Selected economic indicator, 2015-21
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GDP by economic activity (% of GDP): Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities: (2015) 0.9, (2016) 0.8, (2017) 0.8, (2018) 0.9, (2019) 0.9, (2020) 0.9, (2021) 0.9
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