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v A Framework for Environmental Management of Aquaculture, Aquaculture Best Practice Management
Guidelines and Aquaculture Assessment Tools was developed to support sustainable aquaculture
development in Member States. Three countries were assisted in aligning national strategies with regional
strategy (Botswana, Malawi and Namibia), and a policy brief was developed to guide alignment by other
Member States. Aquaculture production increased from 69,851 metric tonnes of fish in 2015 to 100,950
metric tonnes of fish in 2018, and 121,130 metric tons of aquatic plants.
v The SADC Animal Genetics Resources (AnGR) Conservation and Utilisation Strategywas approved in
2020 to foster an inclusive commitment of the region and to promote biodiversity, conservation and
sustainable use of AnGR for economic, social and cultural values with the aim to improve agricultural
production and maintenance of species diversity for present and future generations.

g Regional and International Trade and Access to Markets of Agricultural Products
v The Regional Agricultural Information Management System (AIMS) Strategywas developed in 2021 to
provide policymakers, planners and economic players with access to reliable and timely information that is
necessary for policy development, emergency preparedness and planning.
v The Regional Plant Health Strategy was approved in 2019 to guide Member States with a practical
management approach in order to (i) strengthen Member States’ ability and capacity to increase crop
productivity levels through appropriate control and management of pests and diseases; and (ii) improve
regulatory protection against plant-health risks associated with international trade, thereby improving the
ability of Members States ability to access and maintain export markets in accordance with the World
Trade Organization (WTO) Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary Agreement obligations and the SADC Sanitary
and Phyto-Sanitary Annex to the Trade Protocol.
v All SADC Member States comply with Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) requirements and participate
every year in the Commission for Phyto-sanitary Measures (CPM) which supports the trade in crops and
their products through setting plant-health standards and guidelines; and in the World Animal Health
Organization (OIE) standard-setting and monitoring where they obtain disease status certification.
Regional Guidelines were developed in 2018 and approved for commodity-based trade of beef during
16 Foot-and-Mouth Disease outbreaks, in line with OIE Requirements. The SADC Secretariat annually
facilitates the production of regional common positions, to better influence the decision-making processes
in those international fora.

g Food and Nutrition Security
v The SADC Food and Nutrition Security Strategy (2015-2025), approved in 2014, has gained impetus in
implementation from 2018, including the revival of the Technical Steering Committee for the Regional
Food and Nutrition Security Strategy. Ten of the 16 Member States have nominated their officials to the
Committee, to provide technical guidance to Member States and the Secretariat on the implementation and
monitoring of the SADC Food and Nutrition Security Strategy (FNSS). Support to 11 Member States
(Comoros, DRC, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa,
Tanzania and Zambia) was provided to align their Food and Nutrition Security Strategies (FNSS) to the
regional FNSS.
v The SADC Regional Vulnerability Assessment Analysis (RVAA) Programme ensures that the regional
vulnerability assessment analysis systems are efficiently functioning and supported. All SADC Member
States conduct annual national vulnerability assessments, with timely reports submitted and further
reported under the Annual Regional Synthesis Report on Status. An Action Framework exists for the
region on improving the quality of young children’s diets, aimed at reducing malnutrition under 5 years.

g Management and Conservation of Wildlife and Transboundary Natural Resources
v The SADC Trans-Frontier Conservation Areas (TFCA) Programme was approved in October 2013, and
aims to develop SADC into a functional and integrated network of trans-frontier conservation areas where
shared natural resources are sustainably co-managed and conserved to foster socioeconomic development
and regional integration for the benefit of people living within and around the TFCAs, the SADC region,
and the world. There are currently 18 existing and potential TFCAs in both terrestrial and marine
environments in the SADC region.
v The Regional Financing Facility for SADC TFCAs, approved by the Council of Ministers in 2018, was
successfully established in 2020 and started operations in 2021.