Land Resources
Beth
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28 Jun 2011
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The United Nations and its partners this week launched a 20-year, $200 million environmental recovery programme in south-west Haiti that aims to benefit more than 200,000 people and show that sustainable rural development, from fisheries to tourism, is indeed practical.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
By UN News
The United Nations and its partners this week launched a 20-year, $200 million environmental recovery programme in south-west Haiti that aims to benefit more than 200,000 people and...
Beth
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28 Jun 2011
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FIFTY EIGHT, Guyana — A battered, decades-old Bedford truck that would not look out of place in a “Mad Max” movie pulled off the road. Gold miners crawled out of its mud-splattered cab, sauntered into Peter Rajmenjan’s diner and asked if he had any bush hog for sale.
“The only wild meat I have left today is deer,” replied Mr. Rajmenjan, 55, whose establishment lies at the 58-mile marker on the main road cutting through the Guyanese jungle.
Over plates of...
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,...
