FAO
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 March 2010: Costa Rica, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Republic of Congo, Solomon Islands, and Sudan have been invited to join the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board as observer countries.
With these additions, the UN-REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries) Programme now includes 13 observer countries, along with 9 pilot countries. While UN-REDD funding is programmed for pilot countries, observer countries can take advantage of...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
2010: FAO Legal Papers Online no. 83 is a comparative analysis of national wildlife legislation in Asia and Oceania, with the aim of identifying strengths and weaknesses of legal frameworks in the promotion of sustainable wildlife management and in allowing disadvantaged people, particularly indigenous and local communities, to directly benefit from it.
Authored by Elsa Tsioumani and Elisa Morgera, this study formulates recommendations and proposes specific legal options to improve legal...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
18 October 2010: The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), together with representatives of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), have formed a multi-agency working group on food security. The Food Secure Pacific Working Group convened in early October in Suva, Fiji, to begin implementation of the Food Security Regional Framework.
One of the first tasks of...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
25 October 2010: The Japan-UN Development Programme (UNDP) Partnership Fund approved a project titled “Promoting Regional REDD+ Approach and REDD+ Readiness in Under-Supported Regions of Asia/Pacific.”
The project, which is being applied by the UN-REDD Programme’s Asia-Pacific team, aims to harmonize REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, as well as the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 November 2010: The fifth UN-REDD Policy Board meeting, which took place in Washington DC, US, from 4-5 November 2010, approved US$15.2 million for five new countries, and confirmed or pledged funds of US$7.4 million.
Cambodia, Papua New Guinea and Paraguay received approvals for US$3 million, $6.4 million and $4.7 million, respectively, after having presented the Board with full national REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, and the role...
