This Environmental Strategy for the Sustainable Development of Mozambique aims to create a common vision for a wise environmental management, leading to sustainable development to contribute to the eradication of poverty afflicting the Mozambican society. These are the main objetives of the Strategy: ensuring food security, sustainable economic prosperity and well-being of the population; promoting conservation and management actions of oceans and seas at all levels, taking into account the relevant international conventions. Objectives: achieve efficient management and allocation of water resources, including water quality, water conservation strategies and ecological flows; Protect aquifers and rational management of the reserves; efficiently manage the courses of rivers and their watersheds; increasing the sustainable use of resources of wetlands, including freshwater fishing and the exploitation of resources of the estuaries; promoting inter-sectoral coordination on the basis of a corresponding legal framework, aiming at multiple use and development of coastal and marine areas; implementing the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities. It also contributes to the improvement of living conditions of fishing communities through revenue generation and aquaculture resources; encouraging the practice of responsible fishing and aquaculture; maintain or restore stocks at the level of maximum sustainable catch; conserve marine and coastal biodiversity; proceed with the implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, adopted in 1995. Objectives: to improve land uses in subsistence agriculture; to ensure the use of natural resources for poverty alleviation and gender mainstreaming; to improve the economy through the sustainable use of natural resources; to achieve integrated management of land, water, flora and fauna, strengthening local, national and regional capacities; to significantly reduce deforestation and loss of forest biodiversity; to achieve a sustainable mining and related activities; to develop and implement integrated land management and plans for water use, based on the sustainable use of renewable resources, integrated assessment of socio-economic and environmental potentials and strengthen the capacity of government, local authorities and communities to monitor and manage the quantity and quality of water and land resources. It also improves measures and regulations internationally agreed relating to security and effective mechanisms for international shipping and transboundary movement of radioactive waste and waste oil; reduce the adverse factors that hinder the harmonious and sustainable development of islands; conserve marine and coastal biodiversity.
Мозамбик · 2007-01-01