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Jamaica minister: Sustainable land management key to stemming degradation
Posted by Jamaica Observer: None Given on July 24th, 2012
Jamaica Observer: MINISTER of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Robert Pickersgill has described sustainable land management as an integral component of the Government's efforts to reduce land degradation.
Speaking at a sustainable land management (SLM) stakeholders' workshop at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel, Kingston, on Friday, Minister Pickersgill said some of the benefits to be derived nationally include: enhanced agricultural productivity; improved rural development strategies; protection of watersheds;...
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Region still has ‘somewhere to go’ in addressing climate change issues
Posted by Jamaica Observer: None Given on May 27th, 2011
Jamaica Observer: Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (CCCC), Dr Leonard Nurse says while regional countries are making progress in their effort to resolve climate change issues they are still in the same category as other developing small islands states that have much more to do.
"We do have somewhere to go but we are no worse off than other regions. We are fortunate to have the kind of political support and some good internal capacity, we have to build...