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Cabo Verde
2 domains mapped · Code: CV
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Cabo Verde is a small Atlantic archipelago with a GDP of roughly $2.7 billion (2024, World Bank), built on coastal tourism, remittances, and fisheries, with tuna the dominant export commodity. Its exclusive economic zone is heavily fished by foreign distant-water fleets under EU and bilateral access agreements, making industrial fisheries the most material market-failure domain. Marine plastic pollution along tourist beaches and a growing offshore financial-services ambition are secondary exposures.
DOMAINS (2)
Fisheries (tuna purse-seine, foreign distant-water fleets)
βW = 1.11
Canonical domain beta-W
Canonical domain beta-W from Fisheries. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.
Axiom 1
Axiom 2
Axiom 3
PRIMARY ROUTE:Cabo Verde's tuna stocks are managed under ICCAT and accessed through a quantified EU Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement, so catch, vessel days, and licence fees are already documented and auditable. The gap between the access fees collected and the depletion of shared tuna and bycatch stocks is therefore computable from existing public records.
4 actor-lane actions mapped
GAME-CHANGE ROUTES
A1Renegotiate the EU Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement and ICCAT quota allocations to tie foreign vessel access to observer coverage, vessel monitoring, and stock-recovery thresholds rather than flat licence fees.
A2Expand vessel-day pricing and domestic value-added (local landing, processing, and at-sea observers) so more of the resource rent stays onshore and overfishing is penalised.
A3Strengthen monitoring, control and surveillance through regional cooperation to cut illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the EEZ.
ACTOR-LANE ACTIONS
Insider / Whistleblower
insider
Fisheries observers and port inspectors document under-reported catch, bycatch, and transshipment at Mindelo and Praia.
Ministry of the Sea / Direcção Nacional de Recursos Marinhos, Instituto do Mar (IMar), ICCAT observer programme
Investor / Capital Allocator
investor
Condition financing of fishing, processing, and cold-chain projects on traceability and sustainable-sourcing certification.
African Development Bank, World Bank, Banco de Cabo Verde, EU blue-economy funding instruments
Regulator / Agency
regulator
Set and enforce catch limits, observer coverage, and licence terms for foreign vessels in the EEZ.
Ministry of the Sea, Direcção Nacional de Recursos Marinhos, Guarda Costeira (Coast Guard)
Policymakers / Treaty Forum
supranational
Reform EU Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement terms to reward stock recovery and observer coverage.
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), European Union (DG MARE), FAO
Plastics (marine and coastal litter)
βW = 5.42
Canonical domain beta-W
Canonical domain beta-W from Plastics and Petrochemical Waste. Local route severity is a country-route triage value and is not used in the aggregate portfolio.
Axiom 1
Axiom 2
Axiom 3
PRIMARY ROUTE:As a tourism-dependent archipelago, Cabo Verde's beaches accumulate both domestic single-use waste and Atlantic drift plastic, and the cost shows up directly in beach-cleanup spending and lost tourism amenity, which is measurable. The country has already enacted single-use plastic-bag restrictions, so the regulatory lever exists and its enforcement gap is observable.
4 actor-lane actions mapped
GAME-CHANGE ROUTES
A1Extend and enforce single-use plastics bans with import controls and extended producer responsibility on packaging.
A2Fund island waste-collection and recycling infrastructure tied to tourism revenue.
A3Join regional and UN marine-litter monitoring and the global plastics treaty process to address transboundary drift plastic.
ACTOR-LANE ACTIONS
Insider / Whistleblower
insider
Municipal waste workers and hotel staff report illegal dumping and uncollected coastal waste.
Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, municipal câmaras, hotel and tourism operators
Investor / Capital Allocator
investor
Finance recycling, waste-to-resource, and collection infrastructure across the islands.
African Development Bank, World Bank, EU environmental funding, Banco de Cabo Verde
Regulator / Agency
regulator
Enforce the single-use plastic restrictions and packaging import rules.
Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Direcção Nacional do Ambiente, municipal governments
Policymakers / Treaty Forum
supranational
Participate in the UN global plastics treaty negotiations and Abidjan Convention for the West African coast.
UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Abidjan Convention, FAO / IMO MARPOL Annex V
REFORM PATHFINDER
Actor-lane actions and institutional infrastructure for Cabo Verde
POLICY LAB
Country-specific policy options for the mapped domains in Cabo Verde; full 61-domain coverage is the program table, not a claim about this route.
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