{"id":5621,"date":"2019-09-30T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T06:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","slug":"blue-economy-key-to-kenyas-development-president-kenyatta-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/30\/blue-economy-key-to-kenyas-development-president-kenyatta-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Economy Key to Kenya&#8217;s Development, President Kenyatta Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Capital News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta has said Kenya is prioritizing\nthe implementation of sustainable blue economy programs because of the sector&#8217;s\npotential to accelerate the country&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President said the shrinking land-based resources\nwon&#8217;t be adequate to sustain a rising world population in the long run hence\nthe need for countries to factor the blue economy in their development\nplanning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;From the very onset, there was a very clear\nrecognition for some of us that resources that were going to be available\nespecially in this era of climatic change from land-based resources, we were\nslowly and slowly depleting through increase in population growth, through\ndesertification and so many other issues,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President, who spoke during a meeting of Small Island\nDeveloping States (SIDS) held on the sidelines of the 74th Session of the UN\nGeneral Assembly (UNGA) in New York, said Kenya is keen on developing its blue\neconomy resources because of the immense potential the sector holds for wealth\nand employment creation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2019\/09\/blue-economy-key-to-kenyas-development-president-kenyatta-says\/\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Capital News President Uhuru Kenyatta has said Kenya is prioritizing the implementation of sustainable blue economy programs because of the sector&#8217;s potential to accelerate the country&#8217;s development. The President&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}