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Southern African Development Community (SADC) - Country Profiles

Policies

SADC Strategy for the Implementation of the Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI).
Date of text: 01 April 2022
Regional Aquaculture Strategy and Action Plan (RASAP) 2016-2026.
Date of text: 29 February 2016
Southern African Development Community Law Enforcement and anti-Poaching Strategy. 2016-2021.
Date of text: 01 August 2015
SADC Minimum Standards for Food Fortification.
Date of text: 2020
Regional Agricultural Policy.
Date of text: 01 August 2014

Legislation

Cultivated plants

SADC (Southern African Development Community) Guidelines for Pesticides Management and Risk Reduction.
Date of text: 01 November 2019
Resolution No. 35/24 approving for ratification the Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Seeds - Improved Seed Breeders' and Seed Breeders' Rights of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
Date of text: 03 May 2024

Environment

Resolution No. 34/24 approving for ratification by the Republic of Angola, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Environmental Management for Development. Development Community (SADC) on Environmental Management for Sustainable Development.
Date of text: 03 May 2024

Fisheries

Resolution No. 39/2002 ratifying the Protocol on Community Fisheries for Southern African development (SADC).
Date of text: 30 April 2002

Food and nutrition

Regional Guidelines for the regulation of Food Safety in SADC Member States.
Date of text: 01 November 2011
Resolution No. 39/2002 ratifying the Protocol on Community Fisheries for Southern African development (SADC).
Date of text: 30 April 2002

Forestry

Resolution No. 25/22 approving for ratification the SADC Protocol on Forestry Activities.
Date of text: 25 April 2022

Gender

Resolution No. 9/02 on the adoption of 1997 SADC measures regarding Gender and Development.
Date of text: 19 April 2002

Water

Resolution No. 36/24 approving for ratification by the Republic of Angola, the Protocol on Common Hydrographic Systems in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region.
Date of text: 03 May 2024

Wild species and ecosystems

Resolution No. 34/24 approving for ratification by the Republic of Angola, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Environmental Management for Development. Development Community (SADC) on Environmental Management for Sustainable Development.
Date of text: 03 May 2024

International Agreements

Resolution No. 23/24 approving, for ratification, the Declaration on Youth Development and Empowerment in the Southern African Development Community.
Date of text: 08 April 2024
Consolidated Text of the Protocol on Gender and Development.
Date of text: 2016
Protocol on Forestry.
Date of text: 2002