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ProjectFeasibility and Climate Proposal Formulation on Restoration of Degraded Mangroves Landscape and Resilience to Climate Change Vulnerable Coastal Communities to Climate Impact and Risks in Ghana - TCP/GHA/3805 2025
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No results found.Ghana’s coastal communities are among the most vulnerable to climate impacts and risks such as coastal erosion, frequent flooding and storm surges, which often lead to displacements, impact the population’s livelihoods, and weaken the resilience of ecosystem services and the population. Furthermore, Ghana is part of the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME), one of the world’s most productive marine and coastal ecosystems, that extends from northern Guinea Bissau to southern Gabon. The GCLME hosts valuable wetlands and mangroves that host major coastal ecosystems, which provide critical ecosystem services to Ghana’s coastal communities, such as i) coastal protection against wave and wind erosion; ii) mitigation of coastal storms and cyclones impacts; iii) shelter and habitat for wildlife; iv) nutrient sink-effect and the reduction of excessive pollutants, and v) the entrapment of upland runoff sediments, thus protecting nearshore reefs and reducing water turbidity (FAO, 1994) -
DocumentPromotion of initiatives to ensure the sustainability of the mangrove crab fishery and its value chains in Madagascar 2014
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The mangrove crab fishery (Scylla scerrata) in Madagascar is an exclusively traditional fishing activity. Crab fishers walk or canoe through the mangroves and use very simple techniques and fishing gear such as a line or a hook mounted on a stick. It is estimated that about 80,000 people are involved in fishing and collecting mangrove crabs in Madagascar. Fishing and landing sites are often very difficult to access, and storage and transport facilities are very rudimentary: this is a sector that has significant post-harvest losses. In recent years, some mangrove areas – those most easily accessible - have already been over-exploited, resulting in a reduction in the average size of crabs caught. -
Book (stand-alone)The world’s mangroves 2000–2020 2023
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No results found.This report provides global and regional estimates of the area covered by mangrove forests, including area changes between 2000 and 2020. It analyses the drivers of these global, regional and subregional changes for the periods 2000–2010 and 2010–2020 with the aim of improving understanding of these drivers, their interactions and how their relative importance has shifted over time. In the study that underpins this report, FAO developed and validated an easy, repeatable methodology that integrates remote sensing with local knowledge. An FAO team and 48 image interpreters worldwide collected and analysed data on mangrove area in 2020, change in mangrove area between 2000 and 2020, and the drivers of change over the two decades. It is the first global study of mangrove area to provide information on land use rather than land cover.
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