Land Resources
Beth
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24 Jun 2011
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Port-au-Prince – Haiti and the Dominican Republic kicked off a joint project last month to increase vegetation cover and improve living conditions for people on both sides of the countries’ shared border.
The two neighbours, sharing the island of Hispaňola, launched a four-year project, Green Border (Frontera Verde, in Spanish), to reduce high levels of natural disaster risk for local inhabitants along the border that runs through several rivers and watersheds.
Centuries...
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
SVG has several projects and regulations related to sustainable use and conservation of land resources. SVG has signed the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and ratified it in July of 1998. The Integrated Forest Management and Development Programme has been established, and a program for agricultural diversification has also been developed in the country. SVG has a total land area of 345 km². Of that total, 139 km² are allocated to agricultural use and 121 km² to forestland. The soils of...
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
A land resources management policy is included in St. Lucia’s National Action Programme (NAP). Since 2000, St. Lucia has developed a National Land Policy (NLP) which is considered its key land resources management policy. Moreover, efforts have been made to develop the National Action Plan/Strategic Action Plan which will serve as the next stage of the NLP. A comprehensive physical development framework and strategy has not yet been completed in St. Lucia. St. Lucia covers a total area of 61,...
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
The Planning Divisions of St. Kitts and Nevis have been authorised under the Development Control and Planning Act 2000 to exercise development control measures. St. Kitts and Nevis released a National Physical Development Plan (NPDP) in 2003 for the development of land and for the preservation and improvement of related amenities. Development also followed the Integrated Planning, Land Use and Development Control Policy for the period 2001-2005. There is also the St. Kitts and Nevis Building...
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
Haiti signed the International Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in 1994 and it was ratified by Parliament in 1996.Mountains occupy 75% of the country and their orientation greatly influences local rainfall and insulation regimes. Haiti’s soils are very diverse, and consist of igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks and limestone. In the mountains, soils were developed on a base of basalt and limestone. Haiti attaches great importance to the agricultural sector, with 43% of the country's...
