The role of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in the sustainable development of small island developing states

Small island developing States face a number of constraints in seeking to fit into the global economy while managing their environment sustainably. Their populations, and therefore their markets, are small, their resource base narrow, fragile and prone to disruption by natural disasters, they depend for foreign exchange on a small range of primary product exports, and they have limited local capital for productive investment. This leaves the public sector with a heavy burden of responsibility for development while the base for revenue generation is narrow.