2013

Agriculture
Agenda
March 3rd 9th
Tue 5th Wed 6th Caribbean Forum: Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to Address the Caribbean Reality in the 21st Century
Crowne Plaza Tequendama Hotel Bagota, Colombia

Events that directly and indirectly impact agricultural development

FYI!
Informal consultations on small island developing States (SIDS) will take place on 5-6 March 2013, in Bogota, Colombia, preceding the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. This conference serves as the Regional Implementation Meeting (RIM). It will have the theme, "Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20". This forum will be followed by the Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (see below). For further details of the event visit: http://www.eclac.cl/cgi-bin/getprod.asp?

Tue 5th Thur 7th

2nd Caribbean Media Training Workshop

Paramaribo, Suriname

This workshop, titled "The Ozone Layer and Chemical and Waste Management Challenges in the Caribbean," is being organized by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). It seeks to strengthen environmental journalism skills and provide media professionals with relevant information and inputs for transmitting messages related to environmental protection and governance in the Caribbean. Its primary target audience includes editors and journalists of print, broadcast and online media, as well as news agencies in the English-speaking Caribbean. The workshop will focus on the Montreal Protocol for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and Chemical and Waste Management. Media reports also heavily impact and influence thinking on agriculture and its relation to the trade, the economy, biodiversity, health, the environment and sustainable development. Avenues like this provide an invaluable opportunity to create a relationship of better understanding of the important issues and effective communication to the public. For more details contact: enlace@pnuma.org For more info, see: http://caribbeanclimateblog.com/2013/02/13/unep-backedenvironmental-workshop-for-caribbean-journalists/ This panel discussion is being convened by the US National Invasive Species Council, in collaboration with the Global Island Partnership (GLISPA), as part of the opening of the 2013 National Invasive Species Awareness Week (NISAW). In this session, policy leaders and invasive species experts from Pacific, Indian Ocean and Caribbean island countries will discuss the range of invasive species challenges they face, focusing on how leadership, coordination with allied issues and cooperation with partners are key ingredients to their biosecurity, control and eradication efforts. For more details contact: Lee Van Wychen Lee.VanWychen@wssa.net For more info, see: http://www.nisaw.org/2013/MasterAgenda2013.122012.pdf The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold a Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean at Colombia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This meeting serves as the Regional Implementation Meeting (RIM). The Conference will focus on the follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), with a regional perspective. For more details contact: Luis Fidel Yez (luis.yanez@cepal.org) or Guillermo Acua (guillermo.acuna@cepal.org) For more info see: http://www.eclac.cl/cgi-bin/getprod.asp? Whats on the Agenda?

Tue 5th Fri 8th

Invasive Species: Islands Offer Lessons for the World USA

Thur 7th Sat 9th

Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Crowne Plaza Tequendama Hotel Bagota, Colombia

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