Islands Economic Cooperation Forum
ANNUAL REPORT ON GLOBAL ISLANDS 2022

The Annual Report on Global Islands 2022 was published in April 2023 by Island Studies Press in partnership with the Foreign Affairs Office of Hainan Province.

Editor is John N. Telesford, T. A. Marryshow Community College, Grenada
Institute of Island Studies, Canada

The theme for the 2022 report is the Island blue economy and tropical agriculture: international cooperation, blue and agriculture-based economies for sustainable development. Although the facets of the theme may seem fragmented, they are actually integrated as agriculture and the blue economy are connected through the fisheries sector. Moreover, in islands, the ridge-to-reef approach to analyzing island development is used, as the inland of islands where sig￾nificant agricultural activities occur is connected to the sea, through networks of veins called rivers. In small islands, such as in the Caribbean, fertilizers and other waste emissions and leachates from agricultural practices are carried to the coast and near￾shore seas via these conduits.

JOHN N. TELESFORD, EDITOR

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PART 1: A BACKGROUND TO ISLAND ECONOMIES
INTRODUCTION
John N. Telesford, T. A. Marryshow Community College, Grenada,
and the Institute of Island Studies, Canada

Chapter 1: The state of island economies and development in 2022
John N. Telesford, T. A. Marryshow Community College, Grenada, and the Institute
of Island Studies, Canada, and Tianxiang Zhou, University of Prince Edward Island

PART 2: BLUE ECONOMY (MARINE ECONOMY)
Chapter 2: The blue economy: Who knows what?
Kelly Hoareau, Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre; Institute for Marine
and Antarctic Studies; Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania

Chapter 3: International cooperation and carbon peaking and neutrality in island countries and regions: The value of blue carbon
Adrian Spence, International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear Sciences,
University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Chapter 4 Sustainable blue economy and international cooperation in island countries and regions: A focus on financing
Andrew Halliday, University of New Brunswick

Chapter 5: A case for legislative reform to accelerate investment and funding for a sustainable ocean economy in small island developing states (SIDS)
Angelique Louise Marie Pouponneau, Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)

PART 3: ISLAND AGRICULTURE
Chapter 6: Perspectives and prospects for tropical island agriculture: The Anglophone Caribbean
Steve Maximay, SBI Consulting

Chapter 7: Agricultural extension services and how international cooperation can support: The case of Grenada
Tessa Barry, JRI Consultancy Grenada & The University of the West Indies,
and Jeanelle Joseph, The University of the West Indies

Chapter 8: Exploring the pathway of high-quality development of Hainan’s coconut industry LIU Haiqing, Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information,
Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences

CONCLUSIONS
John N. Telesford, T. A. Marryshow Community College, Grenada, and the Institute
of Island Studies, Canada

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