Land Resources
Beth
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20 Jul 2011
Fiji’s First and Second National Reports on UNCCD Implementation were submitted in 2000 and 2002 respectively. Fiji’s Draft National Action Plan on Combating Desertification was completed in 2006. Fiji also has a National Rural Land Use policy and plan, as well as a Forest Policy and National Forest Programme.
Land is an important factor in the development of the economy. The burgeoning population over the past 40 years has increased demand for agricultural land and has...
Beth
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20 Jul 2011
Samoa has an active Land Use Policy. In addition, a Land Task Force was set up in 2006 to consider land reforms and to ensure that there is access to development on an equitable basis within a framework of customary ownership.
Land is central to the economic and cultural structure of Samoa and land of productive potential is in ample supply. In areas of heavy population concentration, however, shortages of land under customary land tenure are becoming more evident and increase pressure to...
Beth
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08 Jul 2011
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July 07 2011 -- President James Michel has called on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to take on the responsibility of becoming ‘the guardians of sustainability of our planet’ and to reclaim the concept of sustainability in the modern world order.
“Islands are more vulnerable and more threatened today than they have ever been in their history. We all know that for islands, the spectre of climate change is existential. Even those that will not be completely engulfed by...
Beth
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29 Jun 2011
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http://caricom.org/...
The University of Belize in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of Economic Development, Industry, and Consumer Protection, and the European Union will officially inaugurate a Bio-Propagation Laboratory at the Department of Agriculture of the University located at the Central Farm Campus at 2 p.m. on Friday May 27, 2011.
This state of the art facility, fitted with equipment funded by the European Union, will enable Belize to produce large volumes of disease...
Beth
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29 Jun 2011
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http://beta.adb.org...
MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The recovery in the global economy will help the Pacific economies improve in 2011. The strongest gains are expected in the resource-rich countries that are benefiting from both major new resource projects and better world commodity prices, says the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Pacific Economic Monitor.
The report, released today, projects that the 14 economies of the Pacific will expand by 6.3% in 2011, up from 5.3% last year. The resource-rich Papua New Guinea (...
