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Support to Forest Code Revision and Institutional Reform in Mauritius - TCP/MAR/3602

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 7

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Mauritius is a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) in theEastern Indian Ocean with a population of 1.3 million. Itsmain resources are tourism, sugar cane production andfisheries. It faces the typical constraints of a SIDS, namelysmall area and population, limited skilled humanresources, diseconomies of scale, remoteness from majormarkets, scarce natural resources and vulnerability tonatural disasters, especially in the context of climatechange.The economy of Mauritius, which was once based on themonoculture of sugar cane, shifted at the start of the1970s towards the development of offshore bankingservices, real estate, ICT, textiles and tourism, with thecountry welcoming around a million tourists each year.With the Government’s attempts to promote bothbusiness tourism and ecotourism, a clear focus has beenplaced on the conservation of biodiversity.Although the National Forest Policy document, issued in2006, explicitly details the necessary elements for anenabling context for the full implementation of the policy,its directions have not been adequately implemented dueto major gaps and inconsistencies in the national legal andregulatory frameworks and in the current institutionalsetting.

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