Norway’s Development Rethink Should See Ocean Investment as a Strategic Interest By Gareth Johnstone and Jan Thomas Odegard Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -

Norway’s Development Rethink Should See Ocean Investment as a Strategic Interest By Gareth Johnstone and Jan Thomas Odegard As Norway considers the future of its development cooperation, West Africa offers an important lesson: investing in the same seas can create benefits on both sides of the partnership. https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/09/norways-development-rethink-should-see-ocean-investment-as-a-strategic-interest/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Forty_Years_of_the_Right_to_Development_When_Growth_Excludes_Is_It_Still_Development_Floods_Hunger_a OSLO, Norway, Sep 24 2026 (IPS) - As Norway undertakes Vendepunkt, or “Turning Point,” its reflection on the future of Norwegian development policy, it is critical that oceans remain a priority. Donors around the world are running similar audits, deciding which long-term partnerships to keep, and why. Norway has decades of expertise to offer, but also something significant at stake: healthy and well-governed oceans underpin food, livelihoods and economic activity in partner countries while supporting global seafood supply chains in which Norway itself participates. Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -