FAO
16 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
13 March 2012: The Open Ended Working Group established by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to negotiate a set of voluntary guidelines on responsible governance of land tenure and access rights to land, fisheries and forest resources has held its last and final round of negotiations.
The talks, which took place from 5-9 March 2012, at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), concluded successfully with the adoption of the draft guidelines, which will...
07 Mar 2012
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) is an intergovernmental organization established under the Constitution of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). It is mandated to manage tuna and tuna-like species in the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas. At its ninth meeting, the Compliance Committee will: perform an overview of the implementation of the IOTC conservation measures; review national reports on the progress of implementation of management measures; review country-based...
05 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
2 March 2012: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has released a technical paper featuring case studies from Brazil, India, Palau and Senegal. The paper is intended to ground the FAO Technical Guidelines on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Fisheries in practical experience and to inform the use of MPAs globally.
The technical paper, titled “Marine protected areas: country case studies on policy, governance and institutional issues,” examines governance...
13 Feb 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
10 February 2012: Benin, Cameroon, Chile, Ghana, Myanmar, South Sudan and Suriname have joined the UN-REDD Programme as partners and official observers to the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board.
The Programme now has 42 partner countries globally. Partner countries receive targeted support from UN-REDD’s Global Programme and are able to participate in the knowledge sharing facilitated by the Programme’s online community of practice. Partner countries may also be invited to submit a...
08 Feb 2012
The Chemical Review Committee (CRC) is a subsidiary body of the Rotterdam Convention established to review chemicals and pesticide formulations according to the criteria set out by the Convention in Annexes II and IV respectively and make recommendations to the Conference of the Parties for listing such chemicals in Annex III. This meeting is expected to take place in March 2013. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/ninth-meeting-of-the-rotterdam-convention-chemical-review-...
