WFP
15 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 February 2013: The 36th Session of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Governing Council convened from 13-14 February 2013, in Rome, Italy, and focused on building partnerships to reduce poverty and ensure food security in rural communities worldwide.
During official business, the Governing Council approved the membership applications from Nauru, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, countries that each experience a range of common development challenges, particularly related to land...
29 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
22 January 2013: The UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) has published a “Handbook on Capitalisation of Experiences 2012.” The Handbook focuses on climate change adaptation experiences and aims to build the capacity of climate change adaptation programmes and project teams.
The Handbook argues that good communication strategies and knowledge management are critical to achieve high impacts from capitalisation initiatives. The Handbook recommends capitalisation of...
28 Jun 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
22 June 2012: Haiti’s President Michel Martelly has announced a partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) to expand the country’s national school meals programme, combat malnutrition and assist farmers’ access to markets. Announcing the partnership at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), representatives stressed that sustainable development is not possible if hunger and malnutrition are...
25 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 May 2012: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has reported on progress achieved in the reforestation of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic under a project titled Green Border, implemented by UNDP in partnership with the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Food Programme (WFP).
The Green Border is a four-year project on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic that aims to reduce community vulnerability to natural disaster risk in shared rivers and...
16 Jan 2012
US President George W. Bush is the host of the 2004 G8 Summit. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/g8-sea-island-summit-2004/ ]
