Land Resources
16 Aug 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 August 2012: Sustainable management of land resources in development was highlighted during a workshop on Land Use Awareness, held in Lautoga, Fiji, by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Land Resources Division, in collaboration with Fiji’s Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) Agriculture Department. The workshop aimed to contribute to efforts to minimize land degradation by basing land use on its capability for future development.
According to Inoke Ratukalou, SPC Acting...
07 Aug 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
August 2012: The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has released issue 4.2/4.3 of UNCCD News. The latest issue features stories on the three winners of the UNCCD’s first Land for Life Award.
Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL), Haiti, received the first prize, while Conservation Efforts for Community Development (CECOD), Uganda, and the Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion (TEMA), Turkey, received the second prize. The three winners,...
26 Jul 2012
The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 2nd Scientific Conference will be held in Fortaleza, Brazil, during the 3rd special session of the Committee for Science and Technology (CST S-3). The scientific conference will be the main part of the CST session and will consider the theme "Economic assessment of desertification, sustainable land management and resilience of arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas," with a focus on two sub-topics: economic and social impacts of...
26 Jul 2012
World Food Day 2012 will focus on "Agricultural Cooperatives - Key to Feeding the World" at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). The World Food Day organizers have also released an informational brief on agricultural cooperatives. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/world-food-day-2/ ]
25 Jul 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 July 2012: The latest issue of Global Island Partnership’s (GLISPA) “Event Spotlight” features an event that was convened on 20 June 2012, on the sidelines of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), titled “Securing the island future we want: Enabling steps to achieving a green blue economy at regional scale.”
According to GLISPA, key messages emerging from the event included: for islands, issues of health, energy, land and oceans cannot be...
